🆚 Audio Element vs. Video Element
- 📈 Video Element is much more popular than Audio Element.
- 🌎 Video Element is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Audio Element is more popular in Bangladesh and Haiti.
Statistics based on 3.6M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Audio ElementType
Special HTML element
Special HTML element
About
The <audio> 
HTML element, introduced in HTML5.
Video Element is the HTML5 element used to embed and play video content directly in web pages without browser plugins.
It is defined with the <video> tag and supports built-in playback controls, multiple video sources and subtitle tracks, 
JavaScript control through the HTML Media API, and streaming through Media Source Extensions and HTTP Live Streaming.
Headquarters
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Categories
Special HTML Elements › Rank #8
Special HTML Elements › Rank #2
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Video special HTML element is 16 times more popular than Audio Element.
Total websites
Market share
Special HTML Elements
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Video Element is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while Audio Element is more popular in Bangladesh and Haiti.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Japan
France
Spain
Italy
India
China
Netherlands
Awards
- 🥈 Second most popular in Bangladesh in the Special HTML Elements category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Iran in the Special HTML Elements category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Brazil in the Special HTML Elements category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Argentina in the Special HTML Elements category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Mexico in the Special HTML Elements category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Australia in the Special HTML Elements category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Denmark in the Special HTML Elements category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Mexico in the Special HTML Elements category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Israel in the Special HTML Elements category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Arab Emirates in the Special HTML Elements category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Video Element is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and online shopping, while Audio Element is more commonly used on Internet radio and TV sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Travel
Entertainment
Software/Hardware
Fashion/Beauty
Health
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,602,840 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.