🆚 MediaElement.js vs. Vimeo Player
- 📈 MediaElement.js is five times more popular than Vimeo Player.
- 🌎 MediaElement.js is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
- 🌍 Vimeo Player is more popular in Jersey and Guernsey.
Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data
MediaElement.jsType
Video player
Video player
About
MediaElement.js is a free, open-source HTML5 audio and video player that enables playback of MP4, WebM, and MP3 media files as well as streamed content in HLS and MPEG-DASH formats.
It provides a unified player interface with customizable controls and cross-browser compatibility, and also supports embedding external media sources including 
YouTube, 
Vimeo, 
Facebook, 
Twitch, and 
SoundCloud.
The embedded Vimeo video player.
Headquarters
Dallas, Texas, United States
New York, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The MediaElement.js video player is 5 times more popular than Vimeo Player.
Total websites
Market share
Video Players
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
MediaElement.js is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, while Vimeo Player is more popular in Jersey and Guernsey.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
Spain
Italy
France
Australia
Netherlands
Japan
Canada
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Video Players category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Video Players category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Video Players category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Spain in the Video Players category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Italy in the Video Players category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in the United Kingdom in the Video Players category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in the United States in the Video Players category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Germany in the Video Players category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Australia in the Video Players category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in the Netherlands in the Video Players category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
MediaElement.js is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and blogs and wiki, while Vimeo Player is more commonly used on real estate sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Entertainment
Internet Services
Online Shopping
Travel
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Health
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
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flv.js🗃️ 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 3,531,795 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.