JW Player vs Plyr
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
JW Player · Plyr · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
19
33
Open Page Rank 8+
221
369
Open Page Rank 7+
583
1,276
Open Page Rank 6+
901
2,352
Open Page Rank 5+
1,267
3,982
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 · Plyr · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
8,820
24,525
India
2,636
11,724
Germany
2,793
11,508
United Kingdom
2,764
10,836
Japan
1,501
11,291
France
3,062
9,250
Canada
2,778
7,870
Italy
2,147
8,056
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | JW Player | Plyr |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.8 s | 2 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 800 ms |
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.
JW Player to Plyr
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| monsterporn.com | Apr 2026 |
| ulb.ac.be | Feb 2026 |
| kissasia.org | Jul 2025 |