Lightbox vs Swiper

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

Top sites by authority

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

United States 164,365

427,105

India 74,692

239,537

Germany 85,605

188,085

Brazil 46,482

225,038

Japan 58,602

180,131

United Kingdom 55,913

161,180

France 53,422

159,069

Italy 55,369

145,736

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, Sep 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 Swiper sites