🆚 Canvas Element vs. Video Element
- 📈 Video Element is much more popular than Canvas Element.
- 🌍 Video Element is more popular in all countries.
Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Canvas ElementType
Special HTML element
Special HTML element
About
The HTML Canvas element is a standard 
HTML5 element used to render graphics, animations, and interactive visual content through scripting.
It provides a 2D drawing context API with methods for shapes, text, images, and pixel manipulation, supports resolution control via width and height attributes, and can be combined with 
WebGL for hardware-accelerated 3D rendering.
The <video> HTML element, introduced in HTML5.
Headquarters
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Categories
Special HTML Elements › Rank #5
Special HTML Elements › Rank #2
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Video special HTML element is 12 times more popular than Canvas 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 than Canvas Element in all countries.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Japan
France
Spain
Italy
China
India
Netherlands
Awards
- ⭐ 4th most popular in China in the Special HTML Elements category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in India in the Special HTML Elements category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Ukraine in the Special HTML Elements category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Indonesia in the Special HTML Elements category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Switzerland 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 Canvas Element is more commonly used on real estate sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Travel
Software/Hardware
Entertainment
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 3,528,602 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.