jPlayer vs YouTube

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

Top sites by authority

jPlayer · 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

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

United States 2,611

257,383

India 1,143

120,663

Japan 1,174

116,714

Brazil 1,165

83,581

United Kingdom 991

76,864

France 1,129

70,726

Germany 1,296

67,040

Canada 762

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 jPlayer sites · All YouTube sites