⚡ Animation

Animation libraries and components are typically used on websites to add visual effects such as fades, slides, rotations, and scrolling animations that make web pages more dynamic and engaging.

Some of these libraries include advanced 2D or 3D animation capabilities that allow developers to create more complex visual effects, even interactive games.

According to our statistics, animation technologies are detected on 16.7% of all websites.
71.8% of these sites use only one animation technology, 24.2% use two, and 4% use three or more at the same time.

Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the leading animation technologies on the web in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Animate.css with an impressive share of 37.4%, followed by Lottie with 34.8% and Wow.js with 18.8%.

Animate.css 37.4%
Lottie 34.8%
Wow.js 18.8%
Animate On Scroll 13.2%
GSAP 9.4%
Adobe Flash 5.6%
Anime.js 4.6%
Hover.css 1.5%
Velocity 1.5%
Scriptaculous 0.9%
Paper.js 0.9%
Vivus 0.8%
Morphext 0.7%
Lenis 0.6%
Locomotive Scroll 0.5%

You can also drill down by country:

🚀 Country Highlights

Here is a list of technologies that are especially popular in certain countries.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

Lottie is #1 in the United States ^(-1)
Wow.js is #2 in China ^(-1)
Animate On Scroll is #2 in Korea ^(-2)
GSAP is #3 in Japan ^(-2)
Adobe Flash is #3 in Russia ^(-3)
Anime.js is #5 in Greece ^(-2)
Scriptaculous is #9 in Germany ^(-1)
Paper.js is #9 in the United Kingdom ^(-2)
Locomotive Scroll is #9 in France ^(-6)

✨ Best Animation Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 34 animation technologies we track, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Animate.css A cross-browser library of ready-to-use CSS animations that developers can add to web projects by applying simple animation classes. FreeOpen source	37.4%
2	Lottie San Francisco, California, United States An animation framework created by Airbnb that lets developers export Adobe After Effects animations as JSON and render them natively on mobile, desktop, and the web. FreeOpen source	34.8%
3	Wow.js A JavaScript library that reveals CSS animations when you scroll. FreeOpen source	18.8%
4	Animate On Scroll A CSS-driven, lightweight library to animate elements on your page as you scroll. FreeOpen source	13.2%
5	GSAP San Francisco, California, United States An open-source JavaScript animation library that enables developers to create high-performance, cross-browser animations for HTML elements, CSS properties, SVG, canvas, and JavaScript objects. FreeOpen source	9.4%
6	Adobe Flash San Jose, California, United States A discontinued multimedia software platform for creating animations and interactive apps. Legacy	5.6%
7	Anime.js Paris, France A lightweight JavaScript animation library with a simple yet powerful API. FreeOpen source	4.6%
8	Hover.css Devon, United Kingdom A collection of CSS3 powered hover effects to be applied to links, buttons, logos, SVG, featured images. FreeOpen source$14+	1.5%
9	Velocity An accelerated JavaScript animation engine. FreeOpen source	1.5%
10	Scriptaculous A set of JavaScript libraries to enhance the user interface of web sites. FreeOpen source	0.9%
11	Paper.js An open-source vector graphics scripting framework that runs on top of the HTML5 Canvas. FreeOpen source	0.9%
12	Vivus A lightweight JavaScript library that allows you to animate SVGs, giving them the appearance of being drawn. FreeOpen source	0.8%
13	Morphext A simple, high-performance and cross-browser jQuery rotating / carousel plugin for text phrases powered by Animate.css. FreeOpen source	0.7%
14	Lenis A modern, lightweight, and performant open-source smooth scrolling library with WebGL scroll synchronization, parallax effects, and more. FreeOpen source	0.6%
15	Locomotive Scroll A simple scroll library with smooth scrolling, parallax effects, toggling classes, and triggering event listeners when elements are in the viewport. FreeOpen source	0.5%
16	Animsition A simple jQuery plugin for CSS animated page transitions. FreeOpen source	0.5%
17	Fabric.js A JavaScript canvas library with serialization and SVG-to-canvas/canvas-to-SVG parsers. FreeOpen source	0.3%
18	Motion UI Campbell, California, United States A Sass library for creating flexible CSS transitions and animations. FreeOpen source	0.2%
19	Lordicon Wrocław, Poland An animated icon library with the 36,000+ premium and free animated icons. Free$13+/month	0.1%
20	Swup A versatile and extensible page transition library that offers smooth animations, smart preloading, native browser history and enhanced accessibility. FreeOpen source	0.1%
21	PixiJS A rendering library with WebGPU/WebGL support for creating rich, interactive graphics and cross-platform applications and games. FreeOpen source	0.1%
22	Canvas Confetti A performant confetti animation library. FreeOpen source	0.08%
23	Mo.js An open-source, retina-ready, modular JavaScript motion graphics library. FreeOpen source	0.07%
24	p5.js New York, United States An open-source JavaScript library for creating interactive 2D and 3D graphics and visualizations. FreeOpen source	0.05%
25	Vanta.js Shanghai, China A script that allows you to add animated 3D backgrounds to any webpage with just a few lines of code. FreeOpen source	0.04%

👉 See Also

⚡JavaScript animation libraries

🗃️ 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 3,370,977 websites.
We currently track the presence of 34 animation technologies across the web.
Statistics were last calculated on April 17, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.