MediaElement.js vs Twitch Player

Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.

Top sites by authority

MediaElement.js · Twitch Player · 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 · Twitch Player · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 97,142

3,934

Germany 34,323

12,420

Italy 33,763

3,333

Spain 32,306

1,233

France 28,353

1,421

United Kingdom 27,525

1,267

India 26,914

1,025

Canada 21,462

857

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 Twitch Player sites