MediaElement.js vs Shaka Player
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
MediaElement.js · Shaka Player · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
52
9
Open Page Rank 8+
744
28
Open Page Rank 7+
2,359
56
Open Page Rank 6+
4,128
82
Open Page Rank 5+
7,051
106
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 · Shaka Player · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
97,142
1,113
Germany
34,323
218
Italy
33,763
187
Spain
32,306
188
France
28,353
189
United Kingdom
27,525
261
India
26,914
415
Canada
21,462
232
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | MediaElement.js | Shaka Player |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.3 s | 1.9 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 1100 ms | 600 ms |
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.