⚡ Animation in the United Arab Emirates

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.

The United Arab Emirates is a Western Asian country with a population of over 10 million people.

According to our statistics, animation technologies are detected on 31.3% of websites from the United Arab Emirates.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top animation technologies on websites in the United Arab Emirates in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Lottie with an impressive share of 41.2%, followed by Animate.css with 37.1% and Wow.js with 23.9%.

Lottie 41.2%
Animate.css 37.1%
Wow.js 23.9%
Animate On Scroll 18.5%
GSAP 11.9%
Anime.js 5%
Adobe Flash 1.6%
Hover.css 1.2%
Velocity 1%
Morphext 0.9%
Lenis 0.8%
Locomotive Scroll 0.8%
Paper.js 0.8%
Vivus 0.8%
Animsition 0.7%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top technologies that are more popular in the United Arab Emirates than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

1. Lottie ^(-1)
6. Anime.js ^(-1)
10. Morphext ^(-3)
11. Lenis ^(-3)
12. Locomotive Scroll ^(-3)
15. Animsition ^(-1)
16. Fabric.js ^(-1)
18. Lordicon ^(-1)
19. Mo.js ^(-4)
23. Vanta.js ^(-2)

✨ Best Animation Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of 24 animation technologies used on sites from the United Arab Emirates, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	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	41.2%
2	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	37.1%
3	Wow.js A JavaScript library that reveals CSS animations when you scroll. FreeOpen source	23.9%
4	Animate On Scroll A CSS-driven, lightweight library to animate elements on your page as you scroll. FreeOpen source	18.5%
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	11.9%
6	Anime.js Paris, France A lightweight JavaScript animation library with a simple yet powerful API. FreeOpen source	5%
7	Adobe Flash San Jose, California, United States A discontinued multimedia software platform for creating animations and interactive apps. Legacy	1.6%
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+	1.2%
9	Velocity An accelerated JavaScript animation engine. FreeOpen source	1%
10	Morphext A simple, high-performance and cross-browser jQuery rotating / carousel plugin for text phrases powered by Animate.css. FreeOpen source	0.9%
11	Lenis A modern, lightweight, and performant open-source smooth scrolling library with WebGL scroll synchronization, parallax effects, and more. FreeOpen source	0.8%
12	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	0.8%
13	Paper.js An open-source vector graphics scripting framework that runs on top of the HTML5 Canvas. FreeOpen source	0.8%
14	Vivus A lightweight JavaScript library that allows you to animate SVGs, giving them the appearance of being drawn. FreeOpen source	0.8%
15	Animsition A simple jQuery plugin for CSS animated page transitions. FreeOpen source	0.7%
16	Fabric.js A JavaScript canvas library with serialization and SVG-to-canvas/canvas-to-SVG parsers. FreeOpen source	0.6%
17	Scriptaculous A set of JavaScript libraries to enhance the user interface of web sites. FreeOpen source	0.3%
18	Lordicon Wrocław, Poland An animated icon library with the 36,000+ premium and free animated icons. Free$13+/month	0.2%
19	Mo.js An open-source, retina-ready, modular JavaScript motion graphics library. FreeOpen source	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	0.08%
21	Motion UI Campbell, California, United States A Sass library for creating flexible CSS transitions and animations. FreeOpen source	0.04%
22	Canvas Confetti A performant confetti animation library. FreeOpen source	0.04%
23	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%
24	Atropos Weston, Florida, United States A lightweight, free and open-source JavaScript library to create stunning touch-friendly 3D parallax hover effects. FreeOpen source	0.04%

👉 See Also

🌎 Animation in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 8,309 websites from the United Arab Emirates.
Statistics were last calculated on March 20, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.