🆚 Lite YouTube vs. Plyr
- 📈 Plyr is five times more popular than Lite YouTube.
- 🌎 Plyr is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
- 🌍 Lite YouTube is more popular in Venezuela and Isle of Man.
Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Lite YouTube
PlyrType
Video player
Video player
About
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.
VimeoHeadquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Sydney, Australia
Pricing
Free ✔️ Open source
Free ✔️ Open source
Categories
Video Players › Rank #9
Video Players › Rank #5
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #167
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #70
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Plyr video player is 5 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.
Plyr is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, while Lite YouTube is more popular in Venezuela and Isle of Man.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
France
Italy
Australia
Netherlands
Spain
Canada
India
Awards
- ⭐ 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.
- ⭐ 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 than Lite YouTube in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Travel
Blogs/Wiki
Internet Services
Entertainment
Health
Fashion/Beauty
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.