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 2,935

113,124

Germany 1,850

39,334

Italy 1,118

37,528

Spain 1,063

35,619

France 1,296

33,927

United Kingdom 1,237

32,304

India 1,386

31,967

Canada 965

25,062

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, Jun 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