JW Player vs MediaElement.js

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

Top sites by authority

JW Player · 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

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

United States 7,841

97,142

Germany 2,325

34,323

Italy 1,866

33,763

Spain 1,874

32,306

France 2,579

28,353

United Kingdom 2,419

27,525

India 2,292

26,914

Canada 2,425

21,462

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 JW Player sites · All MediaElement.js sites