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 3,896

250,001

India 971

115,876

Japan 437

108,902

Brazil 639

80,139

Germany 12,194

65,256

United Kingdom 1,240

74,286

France 1,376

66,672

Canada 852

60,985

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, Oct 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