Twitch Player vs YouTube

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

Top sites by authority

Twitch 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

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

United States 3,981

297,432

India 1,148

141,553

Japan 500

135,768

Brazil 723

93,424

Germany 14,093

78,832

United Kingdom 1,457

88,709

France 1,683

84,844

Canada 924

73,450

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 Twitch Player sites · All YouTube sites