🆚 MediaElement.js vs. Vimeo Player

📈 MediaElement.js is four 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 Korea, the Faroe Islands, and Jersey.

Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data

MediaElement.js

Vimeo Player

Type

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.

Vimeo Player is Vimeo's embedded video player for playing videos on external websites.

It provides customizable playback controls and player appearance, supports autoplay, looping, captions, chapters, picture-in-picture, and fullscreen playback.

Headquarters

Dallas, Texas, United States

New York, United States

Website

mediaelementjs.com #3,672,279

vimeo.com #23

Pricing

Free ✔️ Open source

Free ✔️

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The MediaElement.js video player is 4 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 Korea, the Faroe Islands, and Jersey.

United States

United Kingdom

Germany

Spain

Italy

France

Netherlands

Australia

Japan

Canada

Awards

🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Video Players category.
🥇 Most popular in Spain in the Video Players category.
🥇 Most popular in Italy in the Video Players category.
🥇 Most popular in France in the Video Players category.
🥇 Most popular in the Netherlands in the Video Players category.

🥉 Third most popular in the United Kingdom in the Video Players category.
🥉 Third most popular in Korea 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.

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, fashion and beauty, and finance and banking sites.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Blogs/Wiki

Education/Reference

Entertainment

Travel

Internet Services

Online Shopping

Health

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#708

#1,011

#1,389

#1,636

#1,662

Name

Rank

#23

#1,155

#1,263

#1,327

#1,465