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
8
Open Page Rank 8+
369
26
Open Page Rank 7+
1,276
50
Open Page Rank 6+
2,352
79
Open Page Rank 5+
3,982
103
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
24,525
1,150
India
11,724
476
Germany
11,508
247
Japan
11,291
182
United Kingdom
10,836
313
France
9,250
231
Italy
8,056
209
Canada
7,870
288
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, 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.
Shaka Player to Plyr
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| amiettkumar.com | Jan 2026 |