🆚 ImagesLoaded vs. Lightbox
- 📈 ImagesLoaded is twice as popular as Lightbox.
- 🌎 ImagesLoaded is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Lightbox is more popular in Japan, Russia, and the Czech Republic.
Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data
ImagesLoaded
LightboxType
JavaScript library
JavaScript library
About
ImagesLoaded is an open-source 
JavaScript library that detects when images and 
CSS background images have finished loading, allowing code to run only after loading is complete.
It supports both vanilla JavaScript and 
jQuery, detects images within descendant elements, and reports loading progress and failures.
The original lightbox library used to overlay images on top of the current page.
Headquarters
Alexandria, Virginia, United States
San Francisco, California, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️ Open source
Free ✔️ Open source
Categories
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #4
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #19
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The ImagesLoaded JavaScript library is 2.2 times more popular than Lightbox.
Total websites
Market share
JavaScript Libraries
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
ImagesLoaded is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while Lightbox is more popular in Japan, Russia, and the Czech Republic.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Spain
Italy
France
Japan
Brazil
India
Netherlands
Awards
- 🥉 Third most popular in Germany in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Spain in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Italy in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in France in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in the Netherlands in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the Faroe Islands in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Germany in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Austria in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in the Czech Republic in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Cambodia in the JavaScript Libraries category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
ImagesLoaded is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and education and reference, while Lightbox is more commonly used on restaurants, games, and finance and banking sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Blogs/Wiki
Online Shopping
Internet Services
Travel
Entertainment
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Health
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Metafizzy company profile🗃️ 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 3,823,966 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.