🆚 Object Element vs. Video Element
- 📈 Video Element is much more popular than Object Element.
- 🌍 Video Element is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ Object Element is particularly popular in China.
Statistics based on 3.9M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Object ElementType
Special HTML element
Special HTML element
About
The <object> 
HTML element.
Video Element is the HTML5 element used to embed and play video content directly in web pages without browser plugins.
It is defined with the <video> tag and supports built-in playback controls, multiple video sources and subtitle tracks, 
JavaScript control through the HTML Media API, and streaming through Media Source Extensions and HTTP Live Streaming.
Headquarters
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Categories
Special HTML Elements › Rank #7
Special HTML Elements › Rank #2
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Video special HTML element is 16 times more popular than Object Element.
Total websites
Market share
Special HTML Elements
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Video Element is more popular than Object Element in all countries.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Japan
Spain
France
Italy
India
Australia
Netherlands
Awards
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Japan in the Special HTML Elements category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Russia in the Special HTML Elements category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Taiwan in the Special HTML Elements category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Germany in the Special HTML Elements category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in China in the Special HTML Elements category.
- 🥇 Most popular in India in the Special HTML Elements category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Australia in the Special HTML Elements category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Sweden in the Special HTML Elements category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Denmark in the Special HTML Elements category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Israel in the Special HTML Elements category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Video Element is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and online shopping, while Object Element is more commonly used on health sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Travel
Fashion/Beauty
Software/Hardware
Entertainment
Sports
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 3,976,354 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.