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 121,412

263,095

India 25,293

123,969

Japan 9,540

117,529

United Kingdom 35,292

76,855

Brazil 15,031

85,566

Germany 27,295

68,819

France 20,726

70,187

Canada 23,700

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 Vimeo sites · All YouTube sites