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 97,142

257,383

India 26,914

120,663

Japan 9,164

116,714

United Kingdom 27,525

76,864

Brazil 18,029

83,581

Germany 34,323

67,040

France 28,353

70,726

Italy 33,763

60,581

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 YouTube sites