Cloudflare Stream vs YouTube

Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.

Top sites by authority

Cloudflare Stream · YouTube · 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 · YouTube · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 889

257,383

India 366

120,663

Japan 149

116,714

Brazil 198

83,581

United Kingdom 456

76,864

France 325

70,726

Germany 282

67,040

Canada 297

63,034

Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.

Real user performance

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.

All Cloudflare Stream sites · All YouTube sites