Is JW Player or YouTube more popular?

YouTube is used by more websites in our catalog: 913 use JW Player and 82,680 use YouTube.

Does JW Player or YouTube have higher-authority sites?

JW Player sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (JW Player: 59, YouTube: 29).

Is JW Player or YouTube growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, JW Player went from 0.14% to 0.10% of all tracked sites, while YouTube went from 11% to 9.4%. JW Player is gaining ground faster in our index.

How many sites use both JW Player and YouTube?

130 websites in our catalog use both JW Player and YouTube.

Where does this JW Player vs YouTube data come from?

Adoption is counted from Site Stats Database's own crawl; Domain Rating comes from Ahrefs and traffic from DataForSEO. Figures reflect the sites we track and refresh at least monthly.

JW Player vs YouTube — Site Stats Database

JW Player vs YouTube

A side-by-side comparison of two video players & hosts, based on the 114,821 Video sites tracked by Site Stats Database.

Last updated July 1, 2026

Metric	JW Player	YouTube
Websites	913	82,680
Market share	0.80%	72%
Share of top 10K sites	0.90%	7.3%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#6	#1

Median DR	59	29

Average DR	56	31

Median keywords	4,560	977

Median referring domains	3,133	386

Median domain age	21 yrs	13 yrs

Average domain age	20 yrs	15 yrs

Average monthly traffic	1,898,133	88,414

Combined monthly traffic	1,732,995,507	7,310,056,587

rottentomatoes.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)87
Total Keywords4,123,803
Referring Domains130,919
Domain Age27 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)626,896,769
Traffic Trend
TechnologyJW Player
walmart.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)92
Total Keywords22,196,316
Referring Domains287,795
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)430,824,067
Traffic Trend
Technology
fandango.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)86
Total Keywords1,557,350
Referring Domains62,892
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)98,286,895
Traffic Trend
Technology
go.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)92
Total Keywords913,868
Referring Domains604,602
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)72,794,971
Traffic Trend
TechnologyJW Player
uefa.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)88
Total Keywords148,636
Referring Domains163,923
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)39,801,271
Traffic Trend
TechnologyJW Player
apnews.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)92
Total Keywords1,758,556
Referring Domains311,197
Domain Age34 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)23,774,080
Traffic Trend
Technology
rollingstone.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords1,594,859
Referring Domains282,640
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)20,854,417
Traffic Trend
Technology
billboard.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords1,234,871
Referring Domains203,759
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)19,997,204
Traffic Trend
Technology
nbcsports.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)84
Total Keywords1,111,697
Referring Domains151,583
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)19,695,623
Traffic Trend
Technology
tomsguide.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)87
Total Keywords1,654,896
Referring Domains86,067
Domain Age25 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)14,346,127
Traffic Trend
Technology

Website	Language	DR (Ahrefs)	Total Keywords	Referring Domains	Domain Age	Traffic (Jun 2026)	Traffic Trend	Technology
rottentomatoes.com	English	87	4,123,803	130,919	27 yrs	626,896,769		JW Player

google.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)99
Total Keywords14,321,906
Referring Domains28,301,335
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,697,994,676
Traffic Trend
TechnologyYouTube
foxsports.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)84
Total Keywords1,959,858
Referring Domains84,333
Domain Age27 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)103,702,948
Traffic Trend
Technology
nike.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords994,389
Referring Domains181,640
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)83,799,562
Traffic Trend
TechnologyYouTube
irs.gov
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)93
Total Keywords973,833
Referring Domains280,852
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)75,413,891
Traffic Trend
TechnologyYouTube
go.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)92
Total Keywords913,868
Referring Domains604,602
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)72,794,971
Traffic Trend
TechnologyYouTube
byjus.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)80
Total Keywords1,666,559
Referring Domains55,721
Domain Age13 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)65,601,851
Traffic Trend
Technology
basketball-reference.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)80
Total Keywords346,107
Referring Domains21,573
Domain Age25 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)61,312,972
Traffic Trend
Technology
baseball-reference.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)81
Total Keywords421,618
Referring Domains30,500
Domain Age26 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)57,651,263
Traffic Trend
Technology
blog.google
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords120,658
Referring Domains140,142
Domain Age9 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)51,746,565
Traffic Trend
Technology
wikihow.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords5,580,639
Referring Domains404,808
Domain Age22 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)43,976,309
Traffic Trend
Technology