⚡ Animation in France

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.

France is a Western European country with a population of around 69 million people.

According to our statistics, animation technologies are detected on 18.6% of websites from France.

Statistics based on 125K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Lottie with an impressive share of 41.3%, followed by Animate.css with 28.8% and Animate On Scroll with 13.8%.

Lottie 41.3%
Animate.css 28.8%
Animate On Scroll 13.8%
GSAP 12.6%
Wow.js 12.3%
Anime.js 4.8%
Adobe Flash 4%
Lenis 1.5%
Locomotive Scroll 1.4%
Hover.css 1.3%
Velocity 1.3%
Morphext 1.1%
Scriptaculous 1.1%
Vivus 0.6%
Paper.js 0.6%

🚀 Highlights

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

3. Animate On Scroll ^(-1)
4. GSAP ^(-1)
8. Lenis ^(-2)
9. Locomotive Scroll ^(-6)
12. Morphext ^(-1)
13. Scriptaculous ^(-1)
17. Swup ^(-3)
18. Lordicon ^(-1)
20. Canvas Confetti ^(-1)
24. p5.js ^(-1)

✨ Best Animation Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 32 animation technologies used on sites from France, 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	41.3%
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	28.8%
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	13.8%
4	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	12.6%
5	Wow.js United Kingdom A JavaScript library that reveals CSS animations when you scroll. FreeOpen source	12.3%
6	Anime.js Paris, France A lightweight JavaScript animation library for creating animations on websites and web applications. FreeOpen source	4.8%
7	Adobe Flash San Jose, California, United States A discontinued multimedia software platform for creating animations and interactive apps. Legacy	4%
8	Lenis A modern, lightweight, and performant open-source smooth scrolling library with WebGL scroll synchronization, parallax effects, and more. FreeOpen source	1.5%
9	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	1.4%
10	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+	1.3%
11	Velocity An accelerated JavaScript animation engine. FreeOpen source	1.3%
12	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	1.1%
13	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	1.1%
14	Vivus A lightweight JavaScript library that allows you to animate SVGs, giving them the appearance of being drawn. FreeOpen source	0.6%
15	Paper.js Switzerland An open-source vector graphics scripting framework that runs on top of the HTML5 Canvas. FreeOpen source	0.6%
16	Animsition A simple jQuery plugin for CSS animated page transitions. FreeOpen source	0.3%
17	Swup Prague, Czech Republic An extensible page transition library that offers smooth animations, smart preloading, native browser history and enhanced accessibility. FreeOpen source	0.2%
18	Lordicon Wrocław, Poland An animated icon library with the 36,000+ premium and free animated icons. Free$13+/month	0.2%
19	Fabric.js A JavaScript canvas library with serialization and SVG-to-canvas/canvas-to-SVG parsers. FreeOpen source	0.2%
20	Canvas Confetti New York, United States A performant confetti animation library for the browser. FreeOpen source	0.1%
21	Motion UI Campbell, California, United States A Sass library for creating flexible CSS transitions and animations. FreeOpen source	0.1%
22	PixiJS A rendering library with WebGPU/WebGL support for creating rich, interactive graphics and cross-platform applications and games. FreeOpen source	0.09%
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	0.04%
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	0.03%

👉 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 125,390 websites from France.
We currently track the presence of 34 animation technologies across the web.
Of these, 32 were detected on websites from France.
Statistics were last calculated on September 18, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.