🆚 jQuery Colorbox vs. PhotoSwipe
- 📈 PhotoSwipe is noticeably more popular than jQuery Colorbox.
- 🌎 PhotoSwipe is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 jQuery Colorbox is more popular in Japan, Russia, and the Czech Republic.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
JavaScript library
JavaScript library
About
A lightweight, customizable lightbox plugin for 
jQuery.
PhotoSwipe is a modular 
JavaScript image gallery and lightbox.
Pricing
Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #48
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #44
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The PhotoSwipe JavaScript library is 1.4 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.
PhotoSwipe is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while jQuery Colorbox is more popular in Japan, Russia, and the Czech Republic.
United States
Japan
Germany
United Kingdom
France
Spain
Italy
India
Russia
Australia
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.
- ⬆️ 22nd most popular in Israel in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 23rd most popular in Uzbekistan in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 28th most popular in Tajikistan in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 33rd most popular in Pakistan in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 33rd most popular in Colombia in the JavaScript Libraries category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
PhotoSwipe is more popular among sites focused on online shopping, business, and marketing and merchandising, while jQuery Colorbox is more commonly used on education and reference, entertainment, and general news sites.
Online Shopping
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Fashion/Beauty
Education/Reference
Blogs/Wiki
Entertainment
Travel
Internet Services
Sports
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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- 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.