🆚 HLS.js vs. Plyr
- 📈 Plyr is five times more popular than HLS.js.
- 🌎 Plyr is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
- 🌍 HLS.js is more popular in Indonesia, Paraguay, and Curacao.
Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data
HLS.js
PlyrType
Video player
Video player
About
HLS.js is a 
JavaScript library that implements an HTTP Live Streaming client, using HTML5 video and MediaSource extensions. .
YouTube
VimeoHeadquarters
Paris, France
Sydney, Australia
Pricing
Free ✔️ Open source
Free ✔️ Open source
Categories
Video Players › Rank #10
Video Players › Rank #5
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #168
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #70
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Plyr video player is 5 times more popular than HLS.js.
Total websites
Market share
Video Players
JavaScript Libraries
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Plyr is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, while HLS.js is more popular in Indonesia, Paraguay, and Curacao.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
France
Italy
Netherlands
Australia
Spain
India
Canada
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.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in India in the Video Players category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Iran in the Video Players category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Pakistan in the Video Players category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in the United States in the Video Players category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Video Players category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Plyr is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and online shopping, while HLS.js is more commonly used on Internet radio and TV sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Travel
Entertainment
Blogs/Wiki
Internet Services
General News
Fashion/Beauty
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Dailymotion company profile🗃️ 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 3,816,780 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.