MediaElement.js vs Plyr

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

Top sites by authority

MediaElement.js · 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

MediaElement.js · Plyr · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 99,554

21,879

Germany 34,501

10,092

Italy 31,625

6,978

India 27,751

10,363

United Kingdom 27,401

9,516

Spain 29,729

6,363

France 27,583

7,673

Canada 21,548

6,832

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 MediaElement.js sites · All Plyr sites