🆚 Lightbox vs. Magnific Popup
Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *- 📈 Magnific Popup is slightly more popular than Lightbox.
- 🌎 Magnific Popup is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Italy.
- 🌍 Lightbox is more popular in Germany, Japan, and Poland.
LightboxType
JavaScript library
JavaScript library
About
The original lightbox library used to overlay images on top of the current page.
Magnific Popup is a responsive lightbox and dialog plugin for jQuery and Zepto.js.
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Magnific Popup JavaScript library is 1.2 times more popular than Lightbox.
Total websites
Market share
JavaScript Libraries
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Magnific Popup is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Italy, while Lightbox is more popular in Germany, Japan, and Poland.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Italy
Japan
India
Spain
France
Australia
Netherlands
Awards
- 🥈 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.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Legacy category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Legacy category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Legacy category.
- 🥇 Most popular in India in the Legacy category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Italy in the Legacy category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Magnific Popup is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and education and reference, while Lightbox is more commonly used on blogs and wiki, entertainment, and general news sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Online Shopping
Blogs/Wiki
Internet Services
Travel
Entertainment
Health
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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