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 99,554

3,835

Germany 34,501

12,532

Italy 31,625

3,246

Spain 29,729

1,107

France 27,583

1,392

India 27,751

1,060

United Kingdom 27,401

1,248

Canada 21,548

852

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, 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.

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