⚡ Animation in China

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.

China is an East Asian country with a population of around 1.4 billion people.

According to our statistics, animation technologies are detected on 20.5% of websites from China.

Statistics based on 64K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Animate.css with an impressive share of 70.3%, followed by Wow.js with 59.7% and Animate On Scroll with 14%.

Animate.css 70.3%
Wow.js 59.7%
Animate On Scroll 14%
Adobe Flash 7.6%
Lottie 6.9%
GSAP 4.1%
Anime.js 1.8%
Velocity 1.2%
Hover.css 0.7%
Paper.js 0.7%
Vivus 0.4%
Lenis 0.4%
Fabric.js 0.2%
Locomotive Scroll 0.2%
Scriptaculous 0.2%

🚀 Highlights

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

1. Animate.css ^(-1)
2. Wow.js ^(-1)
3. Animate On Scroll ^(-1)
4. Adobe Flash ^(-3)
8. Velocity ^(-1)
10. Paper.js ^(-1)
11. Vivus ^(-1)
13. Fabric.js ^(-4)
14. Locomotive Scroll ^(-1)
17. Live2D Widget ^(-17)

✨ Best Animation Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 32 animation technologies used on sites from China, 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	70.3%
2	Wow.js United Kingdom A JavaScript library that reveals CSS animations when you scroll. FreeOpen source	59.7%
3	Animate On Scroll Poznań, Poland A lightweight JavaScript library that uses CSS3 transitions to animate webpage elements as they enter the viewport during scrolling. FreeOpen source	14%
4	Adobe Flash San Jose, California, United States A discontinued multimedia software platform for creating animations and interactive apps. Legacy	7.6%
5	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	6.9%
6	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	4.1%
7	Anime.js Paris, France A lightweight JavaScript animation library for creating animations on websites and web applications. FreeOpen source	1.8%
8	Velocity An accelerated JavaScript animation engine. FreeOpen source	1.2%
9	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+	0.7%
10	Paper.js Switzerland An open-source vector graphics scripting framework that runs on top of the HTML5 Canvas. FreeOpen source	0.7%
11	Vivus A lightweight JavaScript library that allows you to animate SVGs, giving them the appearance of being drawn. FreeOpen source	0.4%
12	Lenis A modern, lightweight, and performant open-source smooth scrolling library with WebGL scroll synchronization, parallax effects, and more. FreeOpen source	0.4%
13	Fabric.js A JavaScript canvas library with serialization and SVG-to-canvas/canvas-to-SVG parsers. FreeOpen source	0.2%
14	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	0.2%
15	Scriptaculous Tucson, Arizona, United States An open-source JavaScript library built on the Prototype framework that provides visual effects, user interface controls, and AJAX utilities for web applications. FreeOpen source	0.2%
16	Animsition A simple jQuery plugin for CSS animated page transitions. FreeOpen source	0.1%
17	Live2D Widget Allows you to embed Live2D animations into web pages. FreeOpen source	0.1%
18	PixiJS A rendering library with WebGPU/WebGL support for creating rich, interactive graphics and cross-platform applications and games. FreeOpen source	0.07%
19	Morphext London, United Kingdom A cross-browser jQuery plugin that rotates text phrases in a carousel using CSS3 animations powered by Animate.css. FreeOpen source	0.06%
20	Mo.js An open-source, retina-ready, modular JavaScript motion graphics library. FreeOpen source	0.05%
21	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	0.05%
22	Motion UI Campbell, California, United States A Sass library for creating flexible CSS transitions and animations. FreeOpen source	0.05%
23	p5.js New York, United States An open-source JavaScript library for creating interactive 2D and 3D graphics and visualizations. FreeOpen source	0.03%
24	Lordicon Wrocław, Poland An animated icon library with the 36,000+ premium and free animated icons. Free$13+/month	0.02%
25	Swup Prague, Czech Republic An extensible page transition library that offers smooth animations, smart preloading, native browser history and enhanced accessibility. FreeOpen source	0.02%

👉 See Also

🌎 Animation in other countries

🗃️ 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 64,974 websites from China.
We currently track the presence of 34 animation technologies across the web.
Of these, 32 were detected on websites from China.
Statistics were last calculated on September 18, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.