Plyr vs YouTube

YouTube is used by more websites in our catalog: 665 use Plyr and 82,680 use YouTube.

YouTube sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Plyr: 25, YouTube: 29).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Plyr went from 0.03% to 0.08% of all tracked sites, while YouTube went from 11% to 9.4%. Plyr is gaining ground faster in our index.

160 websites in our catalog use both Plyr and YouTube.

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.