⚡ Sliders in Japan

Sliders are visual components used on websites to create moving displays, like photo carousels or scrolling banners, that grab attention and show off content.

Japan is an East Asian country with a population of around 125 million people.

According to our statistics, sliders are used on 40.6% of websites from Japan.

Statistics based on 159K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top sliders on websites in Japan in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Slick with an impressive share of 44.3%, followed by Swiper with 37.2% and bxSlider with 13.8%.

Slick 44.3%
Swiper 37.2%
bxSlider 13.8%
FlexSlider 8.6%
Owl Carousel 4.7%
Splide 2%
Smart Slider 1.7%
Flickity 1%
Slider Revolution 0.9%
Master Slider 0.4%
LayerSlider 0.2%
noUiSlider 0.2%
Tiny Slider 0.09%
Rangeslider.js 0.04%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top sliders that are more popular in Japan than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

1. Slick ^(-1)
3. bxSlider ^(-3)
6. Splide ^(-3)
7. Smart Slider ^(-1)
10. Master Slider ^(-2)

✨ Best Sliders

Below is a more detailed list of 15 sliders used on sites from Japan, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Slick An open-source, fully responsive and accessible carousel library. FreeOpen source	44.3%
2	Swiper Weston, Florida, United States A modern touch slider library for building responsive sliders and carousels with hardware-accelerated transitions. FreeOpen source	37.2%
3	bxSlider An open-source, fully loaded, responsive jQuery content slider. FreeOpen source	13.8%
4	FlexSlider San Francisco, California, United States A responsive jQuery slider created by the WooCommerce team and included with WooCommerce. FreeOpen source	8.6%
5	Owl Carousel Germany A touch enabled jQuery plugin that lets you create a beautiful, responsive carousel slider. FreeOpen source	4.7%
6	Splide A lightweight, flexible and accessible slider/carousel written in TypeScript. FreeOpen source$10+/month	2%
7	Smart Slider Győr, Hungary A responsive slider for WordPress and Joomla. Free$49	1.7%
8	Flickity A touch-friendly, responsive library for creating carousels, galleries and sliders. FreeOpen source$25+	1%
9	Slider Revolution Cologne, Germany A commercial WordPress plugin that allows users to create responsive sliders, carousels, and animated content modules without coding. $39/year	0.9%
10	Master Slider An SEO friendly, responsive image and video slider available for WordPress and jQuery in free and pro editions. Free$17+	0.4%
11	LayerSlider Budapest, Hungary A commercial WordPress slider plugin for creating responsive sliders, animated content blocks, popups, and hero sections without coding. $29+/year	0.2%
12	noUiSlider A lightweight, ARIA-accessible, GPU-animated JavaScript range slider with multi-touch and keyboard support. FreeOpen source	0.2%
13	Tiny Slider A vanilla JavaScript slider for all purposes, inspired by Owl Carousel. FreeOpen source	0.09%
14	Rangeslider.js Simple jQuery polyfill for the HTML5 slider element. FreeOpen source	0.04%
15	Ion.RangeSlider An open-source responsive range slider with skin support. FreeOpen source	0.02%

👉 See Also

🌎 Sliders in other countries

🗃️ 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 159,860 websites from Japan.
We currently track the presence of 15 sliders across the web.
Of these, 15 were detected on websites from Japan.
Statistics were last calculated on April 19, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.