⚡ Sliders
Sliders are visual components used on websites to create moving displays, like photo carousels or scrolling banners, that grab attention and show off content.
They often come with features such as autoplay, touch and keyboard control, and various animation effects.
According to our statistics, sliders are used on 33.4% of all websites.
76.4% of these sites use only one slider, 18.3% use two, and 5.3% use three or more of them.
⭐ Most Popular in 2026
The following chart shows the leading sliders in 2026, based on market share.
The most popular is Swiper with an impressive share of 46.2%, followed by Slick with 23% and Owl Carousel with 20.5%.
You can also drill down by country:
🚀 Country Highlights
Here is a list of sliders that are especially popular in certain countries.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.
✨ Best Sliders
Below is a more detailed list of 15 sliders we detect, ranked by their market share.
Rank Name Market share
1
Swiper Weston, Florida, United States A modern touch slider library for building responsive sliders and carousels with hardware-accelerated transitions.
Free Open source
46.2%
2
Slick New York, United States An open-source jQuery carousel library for creating responsive, touch-enabled, and keyboard-accessible content sliders.
Free Open source
23%
3
Owl Carousel Germany A deprecated open-source jQuery plugin for creating responsive, touch-enabled, and accessible carousel sliders.
Free Open source Legacy
20.5%
4
FlexSlider San Francisco, California, United States A responsive jQuery slider created by the WooCommerce team and included with WooCommerce.
Free Open source
11.8%
5
Slider Revolution Cologne, Germany A commercial WordPress plugin that allows users to create responsive sliders, carousels, and animated content modules without coding.
$3.75+/month
10.5%
6
bxSlider Chicago, Illinois, United States An open-source responsive jQuery content slider for displaying images, videos, and HTML content as slideshows or carousels.
Free Open source
5%
7
Flickity Alexandria, Virginia, United States A touch-friendly, responsive library for creating carousels, galleries and sliders.
Free Open source $25+
3.8%
8
Splide Japan A lightweight, accessible slider and carousel library written in TypeScript.
Free Open source $10+/month
2.4%
9
Smart Slider Győr, Hungary A responsive visual slider plugin for WordPress and Joomla that allows users to create sliders, carousels, and dynamic content presentations without coding.
Free $49
2.2%
10
LayerSlider Budapest, Hungary A commercial WordPress slider plugin for creating responsive sliders, animated content blocks, popups, and hero sections.
$29+/year
1.6%
11
noUiSlider A lightweight, ARIA-accessible, GPU-animated JavaScript range slider with multi-touch and keyboard support.
Free Open source
1%
12
Tiny Slider An open-source vanilla JavaScript slider library for creating responsive carousels and galleries without external dependencies, inspired by Owl Carousel.
Free Open source
0.8%
13
Master Slider
An SEO friendly, responsive image and video slider available for WordPress and jQuery in free and pro editions.
Free $17+
0.8%
14
Ion.RangeSlider
An open-source responsive range slider with skin support.
Free Open source
0.5%
15
Rangeslider.js Simple jQuery polyfill for the HTML5 <input type="range"> slider element.
Free Open source
0.4%
🗃️ 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 3,827,502 websites.
We currently track the presence of 15 sliders across the web.
Statistics were last calculated on September 5, 2026 .
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer .