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 7,670

250,001

India 2,227

115,876

Japan 1,331

108,902

Brazil 1,425

80,139

United Kingdom 2,397

74,286

France 2,496

66,672

Germany 2,314

65,256

Canada 2,378

60,985

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, Oct 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