As of October 8, 2026, YouTube is used by 2,229,622 websites in the TechLeads index: 42.9% of all Video players detections, the 1st most-used of 47 Video players technologies.
2,229,622
websites using YouTube
42.9%
share of Video players
#1
of 47 in Video players
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TechLeads. "YouTube Customers and Market Share." Data as of October 8, 2026. https://techleads.fyi/technology/youtube/market-share
In HTTP Archive's monthly crawl of public websites, YouTube was detected on 2,919,209 pages in September 2026, down 15.8% from a year earlier (peak: 4,285,346). Among the 1,000 most-visited sites, it appeared on 92. HTTP Archive is a separate dataset from the TechLeads index, so its numbers are not added to ours.
Same month, other Video Players technologies in HTTP Archive: MediaElement.js 1,016,789, Vimeo 918,594, VideoJS 839,782, Plyr 275,298, Twitch Player 69,301.
YouTube customers by country
Based on country-code domains (such as .de or .co.uk); websites on .com and other generic domains are not assigned a country.
TechLeads scans public websites and detects YouTube from signals in the page HTML, scripts, cookies, HTTP headers and DNS records. Market share is YouTube's website count divided by the website counts of all Video players technologies we track; a site using two Video players tools counts for both. Counts were last refreshed on October 8, 2026 and update daily.
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YouTube accounts for 42.9% of Video players detections in the TechLeads index (2,229,622 websites), which makes it the 1st most-used of 47 Video players technologies we track.