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 113,124

24,525

Germany 39,334

11,508

Italy 37,528

8,056

India 31,967

11,724

France 33,927

9,250

United Kingdom 32,304

10,836

Spain 35,619

7,245

Canada 25,062

7,870

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 MediaElement.js sites · All Plyr sites