⚡ Animation in Japan

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.

Japan is an East Asian country with a population of around 125 million people.

According to our statistics, animation technologies are detected on 9.7% of websites from Japan.

Statistics based on 160K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Animate.css with an impressive share of 43.3%, followed by Wow.js with 27.9% and GSAP with 17.3%.

Animate.css 43.3%
Wow.js 27.9%
GSAP 17.3%
Animate On Scroll 13.1%
Adobe Flash 10%
Lottie 9.4%
Anime.js 3.7%
Velocity 3.1%
Scriptaculous 2%
Hover.css 1.7%
Vivus 1.6%
Animsition 1.1%
Lenis 0.8%
Locomotive Scroll 0.6%
Paper.js 0.4%

🚀 Highlights

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

2. Wow.js ^(-1)
3. GSAP ^(-2)
5. Adobe Flash ^(-1)
8. Velocity ^(-1)
9. Scriptaculous ^(-1)
11. Vivus ^(-1)
12. Animsition ^(-4)
13. Lenis ^(-1)
14. Locomotive Scroll ^(-1)
16. PixiJS ^(-5)

✨ Best Animation Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 30 animation technologies used on sites from Japan, 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	43.3%
2	Wow.js A JavaScript library that reveals CSS animations when you scroll. FreeOpen source	27.9%
3	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	17.3%
4	Animate On Scroll A CSS-driven, lightweight library to animate elements on your page as you scroll. FreeOpen source	13.1%
5	Adobe Flash San Jose, California, United States A discontinued multimedia software platform for creating animations and interactive apps. Legacy	10%
6	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	9.4%
7	Anime.js Paris, France A lightweight JavaScript animation library with a simple yet powerful API. FreeOpen source	3.7%
8	Velocity An accelerated JavaScript animation engine. FreeOpen source	3.1%
9	Scriptaculous A set of JavaScript libraries to enhance the user interface of web sites. FreeOpen source	2%
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+	1.7%
11	Vivus A lightweight JavaScript library that allows you to animate SVGs, giving them the appearance of being drawn. FreeOpen source	1.6%
12	Animsition A simple jQuery plugin for CSS animated page transitions. FreeOpen source	1.1%
13	Lenis A modern, lightweight, and performant open-source smooth scrolling library with WebGL scroll synchronization, parallax effects, and more. FreeOpen source	0.8%
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	0.6%
15	Paper.js An open-source vector graphics scripting framework that runs on top of the Canvas. FreeOpen source	0.4%
16	PixiJS A rendering library with WebGPU/WebGL support for creating rich, interactive graphics and cross-platform applications and games. FreeOpen source	0.4%
17	Fabric.js A JavaScript canvas library with serialization and SVG-to-canvas/canvas-to-SVG parsers. FreeOpen source	0.2%
18	Morphext A simple, high-performance and cross-browser jQuery rotating / carousel plugin for text phrases powered by Animate.css. FreeOpen source	0.1%
19	p5.js New York, United States An open-source JavaScript library for creating interactive 2D and 3D graphics and visualizations. FreeOpen source	0.1%
20	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	0.1%
21	Mo.js An open-source, retina-ready, modular JavaScript motion graphics library. FreeOpen source	0.1%
22	Motion UI Campbell, California, United States A Sass library for creating flexible CSS transitions and animations. FreeOpen source	0.06%
23	Swup A versatile and extensible page transition library that offers smooth animations, smart preloading, native browser history and enhanced accessibility. FreeOpen source	0.06%
24	Canvas Confetti A performant confetti animation library. FreeOpen source	0.04%
25	A-Frame San Francisco, California, United States A web framework for building 3D/augmented/virtual reality experiences. FreeOpen source	0.03%

👉 See Also

🌎 Animation in other countries
- China
- Korea
- Taiwan

🗃️ 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 160,338 websites from Japan.
We currently track the presence of 34 animation technologies across the web.
Of these, 30 were detected on websites from Japan.
Statistics were last calculated on May 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.