Vimeo vs YouTube

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

Top sites by authority

Vimeo · 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

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

United States 137,374

297,432

India 29,063

141,553

Japan 11,258

135,768

United Kingdom 41,241

88,709

France 25,322

84,844

Brazil 16,508

93,424

Germany 30,992

78,832

Canada 27,603

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 Vimeo sites · All YouTube sites