Shaka Player vs YouTube

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

Top sites by authority

Shaka Player · 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

Shaka Player · YouTube · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 1,113

257,383

India 415

120,663

Japan 153

116,714

Brazil 177

83,581

United Kingdom 261

76,864

France 189

70,726

Germany 218

67,040

Canada 232

63,034

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 Shaka Player sites · All YouTube sites