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 167,860

436,711

India 75,877

243,576

Brazil 47,834

230,631

Germany 86,544

191,904

Japan 58,879

181,403

United Kingdom 55,917

161,912

France 52,394

156,599

Italy 53,658

140,074

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, Aug 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