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 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 8,036

21,879

India 2,305

10,363

Germany 2,397

10,092

United Kingdom 2,393

9,516

Japan 1,253

9,899

France 2,533

7,673

Canada 2,376

6,832

Italy 1,825

6,978

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 Plyr sites