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 3,835

263,095

India 1,060

123,969

Japan 430

117,529

Brazil 662

85,566

Germany 12,532

68,819

United Kingdom 1,248

76,855

France 1,392

70,187

Canada 852

63,317

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, 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.

All Twitch Player sites · All YouTube sites