🆚 Video.js vs. YouTube Player
- 📈 YouTube Player is three times more popular than Video.js.
- 🌎 YouTube Player is more popular in the United States, Japan, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Video.js is more popular in China, Iran, and the Bahamas.
Video.jsType
About
Video.js is an open-source HTML5 video player library that provides a customizable video player for embedding and controlling video playback in web applications.
It supports adaptive streaming formats such as HLS and DASH, and provides a plugin system for adding custom controls, skins, captions, analytics, advertising integrations, and external sources like 
YouTube and 
Vimeo.
The YouTube Player widget allows websites to embed and play YouTube videos and playlists within web pages.
It supports customizable playback controls, captions, autoplay, looping, event notifications, and dynamic loading of videos and playlists without reloading the page.
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in China in the Video Players category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Hong Kong in the Video Players category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Iran in the Video Players category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Korea in the Video Players category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in the United States in the Video Players category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Video Players category.
- 🥇 Most popular in India in the Video Players category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Brazil in the Video Players category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Vietnam in the Video Players category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Russia in the Video Players category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
MediaElement.js
jPlayer
Lite YouTube
Dailymotion Player
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- 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 3,604,716 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.