🆚 Lightbox vs. Swiper
Swiper is four times more popular than Lightbox.- Swiper is more popular in the United States, Germany, and Japan.
Lightbox is more popular in the Faroe Islands and Anguilla.
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About
The original lightbox library used to overlay images on top of the current page.
Swiper is a modern touch slider library for building responsive sliders and carousels with hardware-accelerated transitions.
It offers touch and swipe navigation optimized for mobile, native-like momentum and resistance effects, support for vertical and horizontal modes, a modular plugin system with pagination, navigation, thumbnails, and parallax, accessibility features, and integrations with popular frameworks such as 
React, 
Vue, and 
Angular.
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🥈 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 Czechia in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Cambodia in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Sliders category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Sliders category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Sliders category.
- 🥇 Most popular in China in the Sliders category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Spain in the Sliders category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Nolimits4web 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 4,046,631 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
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