Wowza Video Player vs YouTube
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Wowza Video Player · YouTube · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
1
119
Open Page Rank 8+
1
2,028
Open Page Rank 7+
1
8,276
Open Page Rank 6+
2
16,262
Open Page Rank 5+
4
28,851
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Wowza Video Player · YouTube · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
8
263,095
India
4
123,969
Japan
3
117,529
Brazil
10
85,566
United Kingdom
4
76,855
France
2
70,187
Germany
4
68,819
Canada
3
63,317
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Wowza Video Player | YouTube |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.8 s | 2 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 900 ms |
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.