OWL Carousel vs Swiper

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

Top sites by authority

OWL Carousel · 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

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

United States 169,349

436,711

India 131,639

243,576

Brazil 66,851

230,631

Germany 60,505

191,904

United Kingdom 60,983

161,912

France 56,594

156,599

Japan 24,960

181,403

Italy 64,356

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 OWL Carousel sites · All Swiper sites