⚡ Video Players in Ghana

Online video players allow websites to embed and display video content using HTML5 technology, supporting a range of video sources from local files to popular video platforms.

Ghana is a West African country with a population of over 34 million people.

According to our data, video players are detected on 24.3% of websites from Ghana.

Statistics based on 687 analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top video players on websites in Ghana in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is YouTube with an impressive share of 46.1%, followed by MediaElement.js with 43.7% and Video.js with 7.8%.

YouTube 46.1%
MediaElement.js 43.7%
Video.js 7.8%
jPlayer 6.6%
HLS.js 1.2%
Presto Player 1.2%
Plyr 0.6%
Dash.js 0.6%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top video players that are more popular in Ghana than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

4. jPlayer ^(-1)
5. HLS.js ^(-4)
6. Presto Player ^(-5)
8. Dash.js ^(-4)

✨ Best Video Players

Below is a more detailed list of 8 video players used on sites from Ghana, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	YouTube Mountain View, California, United States The embedded Youtube video player. Free	46.1%
2	MediaElement.js Dallas, Texas, United States A free audio and video player with support for media files (MP4, WebM, MP3), streaming content (HLS, Dash), and embeddable players (YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, Twitch, SoundCloud, etc). FreeOpen source	43.7%
3	Video.js Boston, Massachusetts, United States An open-source web video player that supports HTML5 video and modern streaming formats, as well as YouTube and Vimeo. FreeOpen source	7.8%
4	jPlayer Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom A HTML5 audio and video plugin for jQuery/Zepto. FreeOpen source	6.6%
5	HLS.js Paris, France A JavaScript library that implements an HTTP Live Streaming client, using HTML5 video and MediaSource extensions. FreeOpen source	1.2%
6	Presto Player Pune, Maharashtra, India A video player WordPress plugin with support for customization, playlists, calls to action, and analytics. Free$79+/year	1.2%
7	Plyr Sydney, Australia A simple, lightweight, accessible and customizable HTML5, YouTube and Vimeo media player. FreeOpen source	0.6%
8	Dash.js Beaverton, Oregon, United States A JavaScript player library for the playback of MPEG-DASH.	0.6%

👉 See Also

🌎 Video Players in other countries

🗃️ 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 687 websites from Ghana.
We currently track the presence of 21 video players across the web.
Of these, 8 were detected on websites from Ghana.
Statistics were last calculated on May 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.