Lightbox vs OWL Carousel

Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.

Top sites by authority

Lightbox · OWL Carousel · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers

Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.

By country

Lightbox · OWL Carousel · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 187,887

192,495

India 86,992

152,078

Germany 96,160

69,649

Italy 61,461

75,946

United Kingdom 63,461

70,928

France 61,914

68,955

Brazil 52,307

74,273

Indonesia 50,938

60,181

Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.

Real user performance

Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Jun 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.

Sites that switched

Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.

All Lightbox sites · All OWL Carousel sites