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 8,820

113,124

Germany 2,793

39,334

Italy 2,147

37,528

Spain 2,102

35,619

France 3,062

33,927

United Kingdom 2,764

32,304

India 2,636

31,967

Canada 2,778

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 JW Player sites · All MediaElement.js sites