Flowplayer vs MediaElement.js

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

Top sites by authority

Flowplayer · 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

Flowplayer · MediaElement.js · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 2,549

99,554

Germany 1,576

34,501

Italy 955

31,625

Spain 906

29,729

India 1,234

27,751

France 1,056

27,583

United Kingdom 1,058

27,401

Canada 810

21,548

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, Aug 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 Flowplayer sites · All MediaElement.js sites