JW Player vs YouTube

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

Top sites by authority

JW Player · YouTube · 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 · YouTube · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 8,036

263,095

India 2,305

123,969

Japan 1,253

117,529

Brazil 1,458

85,566

United Kingdom 2,393

76,855

France 2,533

70,187

Germany 2,397

68,819

Canada 2,376

63,317

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 YouTube sites