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+
51
8
Open Page Rank 8+
765
26
Open Page Rank 7+
2,495
50
Open Page Rank 6+
4,392
79
Open Page Rank 5+
7,528
103
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
113,124
1,150
Germany
39,334
247
Italy
37,528
209
Spain
35,619
214
France
33,927
231
United Kingdom
32,304
313
India
31,967
476
Canada
25,062
288
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 | 500 ms |
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.