🆚 Google URL Shortener vs. iLightBox
- 📈 Google URL Shortener is four times more popular than iLightBox.
- 🌎 Google URL Shortener is more popular in the United States, Japan, and Spain.
- 🌍 iLightBox is more popular in China, Samoa, and Bhutan.
Statistics based on 3.4M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Google URL Shortener
iLightBoxType
Legacy technology
JavaScript library
About
Google URL Shortener is a deprecated link service from Google.
iLightBox was a commercial 
jQuery lightbox plugin.
Headquarters
Mountain View, California, United States
Pricing
Free version ❌
Regular License$16
Extended License$70
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Google URL Shortener legacy technology is 4 times more popular than iLightBox.
Total websites
Market share
Legacy
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Google URL Shortener is more popular in the United States, Japan, and Spain, while iLightBox is more popular in China, Samoa, and Bhutan.
United States
Japan
Spain
Germany
Australia
Italy
United Kingdom
India
Brazil
Canada
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in Taiwan in the Legacy category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Paraguay in the Legacy category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the U.S. Virgin Islands in the Legacy category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Puerto Rico in the Legacy category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United States in the Legacy category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Iran in the Legacy category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Algeria in the Legacy category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Australia in the Legacy category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Austria in the Legacy category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Ireland in the Legacy category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Google URL Shortener is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and education and reference, while iLightBox is more commonly used on blogs and wiki, and general news sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Online Shopping
Health
Travel
Internet Services
Blogs/Wiki
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Sports
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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LightGallery🗃️ 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 3,431,368 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.