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 8,820

297,432

India 2,636

141,553

Japan 1,501

135,768

Brazil 1,609

93,424

United Kingdom 2,764

88,709

France 3,062

84,844

Germany 2,793

78,832

Canada 2,778

73,450

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 YouTube sites