🆚 jQuery Colorbox vs. Lightbox
- 📈 Lightbox is four times more popular than jQuery Colorbox.
- 🌎 Lightbox is more popular in the United States, Germany, and Japan.
- 🌍 jQuery Colorbox is more popular in Malawi, Guam, and Mauritania.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
LightboxType
JavaScript library
JavaScript library
About
A lightweight, customizable lightbox plugin for 
jQuery.
The original lightbox library used to overlay images on top of the current page.
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #48
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #20
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Lightbox JavaScript library is 4 times more popular than jQuery Colorbox.
Total websites
Market share
JavaScript Libraries
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Lightbox is more popular in the United States, Germany, and Japan, while jQuery Colorbox is more popular in Malawi, Guam, and Mauritania.
United States
Germany
Japan
United Kingdom
Italy
France
Spain
Russia
Poland
Netherlands
Awards
- ⬆️ 24th most popular in Japan in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 32nd most popular in Russia in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 33rd most popular in Slovakia in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 34th most popular in Belarus in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 34th most popular in Moldova in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the Faroe Islands in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in the Czech Republic in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Austria in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Germany in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Poland in the JavaScript Libraries category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Lightbox is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and education and reference, while jQuery Colorbox is more commonly used on real estate sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Blogs/Wiki
Online Shopping
Entertainment
Travel
Internet Services
Sports
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
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 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.