Plyr vs Shaka Player
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Plyr · Shaka Player · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
33
9
Open Page Rank 8+
371
25
Open Page Rank 7+
1,265
54
Open Page Rank 6+
2,349
81
Open Page Rank 5+
3,960
107
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Plyr · Shaka Player · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
21,879
1,171
India
10,363
428
Germany
10,092
223
Japan
9,899
150
United Kingdom
9,516
249
France
7,673
194
Italy
6,978
181
Canada
6,832
233
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Plyr | Shaka Player |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2 s | 1.9 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 500 ms |
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.
Shaka Player to Plyr
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| amiettkumar.com | Jan 2026 |