🆚 Lightbox vs. Polyfill
- 📈 Polyfill is twice as popular as Lightbox.
- 🌎 Polyfill is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Lightbox is more popular in the Czech Republic, the Faroe Islands, and Palestine.
Statistics based on 3.4M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Lightbox
PolyfillType
JavaScript library
JavaScript library
About
The original lightbox library used to overlay images on top of the current page.
Polyfill.io is an open-source 
JavaScript library that provides modern web API features to older browsers that do not natively support them.
After a supply chain attack in 2024 involving its cdn.polyfill.io domain, the service was discontinued and is now safely mirrored and maintained by 
Cloudflare under independent management.
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #20
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #4
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Polyfill JavaScript library is 2.3 times more popular than Lightbox.
Total websites
Market share
JavaScript Libraries
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Polyfill is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while Lightbox is more popular in the Czech Republic, the Faroe Islands, and Palestine.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Japan
Russia
Spain
Italy
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.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Russia in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Belarus in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Jamaica in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Curacao in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the Turks and Caicos Islands in the JavaScript Libraries category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Polyfill is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and online shopping, while Lightbox is more commonly used on sports and games sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Blogs/Wiki
Internet Services
Travel
Entertainment
Health
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
LightGallery
Regenerator
Core-js
Fastly Polyfill
Babel🗃️ 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.