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 97,142

21,813

Germany 34,323

10,044

Italy 33,763

7,284

Spain 32,306

6,788

India 26,914

10,204

United Kingdom 27,525

9,535

France 28,353

7,929

Canada 21,462

6,940

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, Sep 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