Cloudflare Stream vs MediaElement.js
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Cloudflare Stream · MediaElement.js · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Cloudflare Stream · MediaElement.js · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
889
97,142
Germany
282
34,323
Italy
197
33,763
Spain
184
32,306
France
325
28,353
United Kingdom
456
27,525
India
366
26,914
Canada
297
21,462
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Cloudflare Stream | MediaElement.js |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2 s | 2.3 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 1100 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Sep 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.
Sites that switched
Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.
Cloudflare Stream to MediaElement.js
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| itctv.ca | Aug 2026 |
MediaElement.js to Cloudflare Stream
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| andersonscustard.com | Jul 2026 |
| quailroostrvpark.com | Jun 2026 |
| magic-chapters.com | Mar 2026 |
| myspicyvanilla.com | Mar 2026 |
| asudallas.com | Feb 2026 |
| venwindrefex.com | Feb 2026 |