🆚 HLS.js vs. Lite YouTube
- 📈 Lite YouTube is as popular as HLS.js.
- 🌎 Lite YouTube is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan.
- 🌍 HLS.js is more popular in Germany, China, and Italy.
Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data
HLS.jsType
Video player
Video player
About
HLS.js is a 
JavaScript library that implements an HTTP Live Streaming client, using HTML5 video and MediaSource extensions. .
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
Paris, France
San Francisco, California, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️ Open source
Free ✔️ Open source
Categories
Video Players › Rank #10
Video Players › Rank #9
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #168
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #167
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Lite YouTube video player is as popular as HLS.js.
Total websites
Market share
Video Players
JavaScript Libraries
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Lite YouTube is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan, while HLS.js is more popular in Germany, China, and Italy.
United States
United Kingdom
Japan
Germany
France
China
Netherlands
Russia
Italy
Spain
Awards
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Indonesia in the Video Players category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in China in the Video Players category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Japan in the Video Players category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Germany in the Video Players category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Italy 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.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Brazil in the Video Players category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in the United States in the Video Players category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Lite YouTube is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and education and reference, while HLS.js is more commonly used on entertainment, general news, and blogs and wiki sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Entertainment
Education/Reference
Online Shopping
General News
Internet Services
Blogs/Wiki
Travel
Internet Radio/TV
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 3,814,833 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.