MediaElement.js vs YouTube

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

Top sites by authority

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

United States 113,124

297,432

India 31,967

141,553

Japan 10,970

135,768

United Kingdom 32,304

88,709

France 33,927

84,844

Germany 39,334

78,832

Brazil 20,655

93,424

Italy 37,528

68,018

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, 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.

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 YouTube sites