🆚 Flowplayer vs. Lite YouTube
- 📈 Flowplayer is noticeably more popular than Lite YouTube.
- 🌎 Flowplayer is more popular in the United States, Germany, and Russia.
- 🌍 Lite YouTube is more popular in the United Kingdom, France, and Japan.
Statistics based on 3.6M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Lite YouTubeType
Video player
Video player
About
Flowplayer is a commercial video player, the older version of which is open source.
Lite YouTube is a lightweight 
YouTube embed designed to improve page loading performance.
It initially displays a thumbnail and loads the standard YouTube player only after user interaction.
Headquarters
Stockholm, Sweden
San Francisco, California, United States
Pricing
Free version ✔️ Flowplayer 7, open source
Custom
Free ✔️ Open source
Categories
Video Players › Rank #8
Video Players › Rank #10
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #154
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #173
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Flowplayer is 1.3 times more popular than Lite YouTube.
Total websites
Market share
Video Players
JavaScript Libraries
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Flowplayer is more popular in the United States, Germany, and Russia, while Lite YouTube is more popular in the United Kingdom, France, and Japan.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Russia
Turkey
Spain
France
Japan
Italy
Netherlands
Awards
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Norway in the Video Players category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Turkey in the Video Players category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Korea in the Video Players category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Germany in the Video Players category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Austria in the Video Players category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Japan in the Video Players category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in the Netherlands in the Video Players category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in China in the Video Players category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Video Players category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in France in the Video Players category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Flowplayer is more popular among sites focused on general news, blogs and wiki, and health, while Lite YouTube is more commonly used on business, marketing and merchandising, and education and reference sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
General News
Education/Reference
Blogs/Wiki
Online Shopping
Health
Entertainment
Internet Services
Travel
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Dailymotion Player🗃️ 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 3,604,716 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.