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 8,036

99,554

Germany 2,397

34,501

Italy 1,825

31,625

Spain 1,782

29,729

France 2,533

27,583

India 2,305

27,751

United Kingdom 2,393

27,401

Canada 2,376

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 JW Player sites · All MediaElement.js sites