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+
53
9
Open Page Rank 8+
763
25
Open Page Rank 7+
2,431
54
Open Page Rank 6+
4,262
81
Open Page Rank 5+
7,297
107
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
99,554
1,171
Germany
34,501
223
Italy
31,625
181
Spain
29,729
184
India
27,751
428
France
27,583
194
United Kingdom
27,401
249
Canada
21,548
233
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 | 1200 ms | 500 ms |
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.