ThickBox on new websites
jQuery-based modal/lightbox dialog widget.
- Sites using ThickBox
- 179
- since Aug 2026
- Last 30 days
- 162
-
new sites, to Nov 11
6 in the 30 days before - Last 7 days
- 152
-
new sites
6 in the week before
| First seen | Aug 10, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Last seen | Nov 12, 2026 |
What we found
- ThickBox appeared on about 160 new sites in the last 30 days.[1]
- Nine in ten new ThickBox sites also use jQuery.
Share of new sites using ThickBox
The line is the 7-day average share of new sites that use ThickBox, since 15 September. It starts at our first detection.
Who uses ThickBox
| Type | Sites | Share | Bar |
|---|---|---|---|
| E-commerce | 28 | 54.9% | |
| Health | 6 | 11.8% | |
| Content | 4 | 7.8% | |
| Developer Tools | 3 | 5.9% | |
| Productivity | 3 | 5.9% | |
| Design | 2 | 3.9% | |
| Hiring & HR | 2 | 3.9% | |
| Crypto | 1 | 2.0% | |
| Finance | 1 | 2.0% | |
| Marketing | 1 | 2.0% |
| Country | Sites | Share | Bar |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 54.2% | ||
| 3 | 12.5% | ||
| 3 | 12.5% | ||
| 2 | 8.3% | ||
| 1 | 4.2% | ||
| 1 | 4.2% | ||
| 1 | 4.2% |
| Ending | Sites | Share | Bar |
|---|---|---|---|
| .com | 140 | 79.6% | |
| .org | 8 | 4.6% | |
| .it | 4 | 2.3% | |
| .es | 3 | 1.7% | |
| .store | 3 | 1.7% | |
| .br | 2 | 1.1% | |
| .in | 2 | 1.1% | |
| .net | 2 | 1.1% | |
| .ca | 1 | 0.6% | |
| .co | 1 | 0.6% |
Javascript Library on new sites
| # | Movement | Tool | Share of category[4] | Bar | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | – |
|
34.1% | ||
| 2 | – | jQuery Migrate | 18.7% | ||
| 3 | – |
|
15.9% | ||
| 4 | ▼1 |
|
13.8% | ||
| 5 | ▲1 |
|
11.0% | ||
| 6 | ▼1 |
|
8.0% | ||
| 7 | ▲1 |
|
7.2% | ||
| 8 | – |
|
6.1% | ||
| 9 | ▼1 |
|
5.7% | ||
| 10 | ▲1 |
|
4.7% | ||
| 11 | ▲1 |
|
3.4% | ||
| 12 | ▲3 |
|
3.2% | ||
| … | |||||
| 409 | ▲186 | ThickBox | <0.1% | ||
All-time shares across the new sites we track: of all of them, and of the sites using any Javascript Library tool. ThickBox is typically used alongside jQuery rather than instead of it. Among October launches it ranked #586 in Javascript Library, up from #772 in September. All 1832 in Javascript Library
Often used with ThickBox
| Tool | Sites with both | vs all new sites |
|---|---|---|
|
|
103 | 204x |
|
|
95 | 180x |
|
|
114 | 126x |
|
|
113 | 26x |
|
|
114 | 26x |
Tools that turn up far more often on ThickBox sites than on new sites in general, and how many times as common each one is there.
Recently launched products built on ThickBox
9 of the 179 sites using ThickBox are product launches we list individually. The other 170 are new business and personal sites: they count towards the figures above but are not listed here. A watch sends them to you.
Watches, exports and the API give you all 179 sites using ThickBox, from £15 a month.
Notes
- These figures cover websites that went live since April 2026, not the web as a whole.
- 5 November 2026: Improved detection coverage for this technology. The dashed line on the chart marks the day.
- Country comes from what each site says about itself, such as a company registration, legal terms or a phone number, not just its domain ending. We count a country only where it is stated plainly enough to be sure: a governing-law clause or company registration number on a legal page, a phone country code, or a country domain ending. Sites that publish none are not counted at all.
- Some products people expect to see here are filed under a related category: UI Library.
How this page is made
FirstSited looks at each new website near the day it goes live and records what it was built with. We do not go back later, so these figures describe what sites launch with, not what they run today. A site counts towards ThickBox when we detect ThickBox on it at that look.
Every share on this page is a proportion of the new sites we were tracking at the time. Sites we found across the wider web count towards the figures, but only product launches are listed by name. How we detect technologies · How we find new sites