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 187,887

491,705

India 86,992

274,591

Germany 96,160

213,155

Brazil 52,307

234,477

Japan 67,639

207,032

France 61,914

185,131

United Kingdom 63,461

182,905

Italy 61,461

160,103

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 Swiper sites