⚡ Sliders in South Africa

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

South Africa is an African country with a population of over 60 million people.

According to our statistics, sliders are used on 41.2% of websites from South Africa.

Statistics based on 18K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Swiper, which dominates the market with a substantial 50.1% share.
It is followed by Slider Revolution with 21.6% and Owl Carousel with 20.2%.

Swiper 50.1%
Slider Revolution 21.6%
Owl Carousel 20.2%
Slick 17.8%
FlexSlider 17.2%
Flickity 4.6%
bxSlider 3.7%
Smart Slider 3.6%
LayerSlider 3.1%
Splide 1.2%
Rangeslider.js 1%
noUiSlider 0.9%
Master Slider 0.8%
Ion.RangeSlider 0.7%

🚀 Highlights

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

2. Slider Revolution ^(-3)
6. Flickity ^(-1)
9. LayerSlider ^(-1)
11. Rangeslider.js ^(-3)
14. Ion.RangeSlider ^(-1)

✨ Best Sliders

Below is a more detailed list of 15 sliders used on sites from South Africa, 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. FreeOpen source	50.1%
2	Slider Revolution Cologne, Germany A commercial WordPress plugin that allows users to create responsive sliders, carousels, and animated content modules without coding. $39/year	21.6%
3	Owl Carousel Germany A touch enabled jQuery plugin that lets you create a beautiful, responsive carousel slider. FreeOpen source	20.2%
4	Slick An open-source, fully responsive and accessible carousel library. FreeOpen source	17.8%
5	FlexSlider San Francisco, California, United States A responsive jQuery slider created by the WooCommerce team and included with WooCommerce. FreeOpen source	17.2%
6	Flickity A touch-friendly, responsive library for creating carousels, galleries and sliders. FreeOpen source$25+	4.6%
7	bxSlider An open-source, fully loaded, responsive jQuery content slider. FreeOpen source	3.7%
8	Smart Slider Győr, Hungary A responsive slider for WordPress and Joomla. Free$49	3.6%
9	LayerSlider Budapest, Hungary A commercial WordPress slider plugin for creating responsive sliders, animated content blocks, popups, and hero sections without coding. $29+/year	3.1%
10	Splide A lightweight, flexible and accessible slider/carousel written in TypeScript. FreeOpen source$10+/month	1.2%
11	Rangeslider.js Simple jQuery polyfill for the HTML5 slider element. FreeOpen source	1%
12	noUiSlider A lightweight, ARIA-accessible, GPU-animated JavaScript range slider with multi-touch and keyboard support. FreeOpen source	0.9%
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. FreeOpen source	0.7%
15	Tiny Slider A vanilla JavaScript slider for all purposes, inspired by Owl Carousel. FreeOpen source	0.7%

👉 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 18,122 websites from South Africa.
We currently track the presence of 15 sliders across the web.
Of these, 15 were detected on websites from South Africa.
Statistics were last calculated on April 19, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.