Lightning on new websites

1. Lightning appeared on about 490 new sites in the last 30 days.^[1]
2. Almost all new Lightning sites also use Swiper.
3. It is unusually common on .net domains: 5.4% of the domains running it, against 2% of domains across new sites.

The line is the 7-day average share of new sites that use Lightning, since 10 September.

#	Movement	Tool	Share of all sites	Share of category[3]	Bar
1	–	Astra	1.5%	36.9%
2	▲1	GeneratePress	0.3%	7.7%
3	▼2	Blocksy	0.3%	7.4%
4	▲1	WoodMart	0.3%	7.3%
5	–	Flatsome	0.2%	5.9%
…
13	▼2	Lightning	<0.1%	0.8%

All-time shares across the new sites we track: of all of them, and of the sites using any Wordpress Theme tool. Among September launches it ranked #13 in Wordpress Theme, down from #11 in August. All 1606 in Wordpress Theme

Tool	Sites with both	vs all new sites	Bar
VK	932	1175x
Xserver DNS	1,025	198x
Xserver Email	1,029	186x
Swiper	1,924	29x
Font Awesome	1,888	15x

Tools that turn up far more often on Lightning sites than on new sites in general, and how many times as common each one is there.

8 of the 1,971 sites using Lightning are product launches we list individually. The other 1,963 are new business and personal sites: they count towards the figures above but are not listed here. A watch sends them to you.

Site	Found	Also detected
SangoJPN | 明細CSV変換・AI自動化のご相談 - 銀行・カード明細を会計ソフトの取込CSVに変換するサービスと、生成AIで業務を自動化するための相談を、ココナラで承っています。 sangoworks.com	Oct 17
小さな飲食店の「また来たい」を自動でつくる｜リピタス ripi+ ripitas.com · Japan	Oct 5
ExcelMapStudio - 正確さと使いやすさを追求した、日本地図データ 都道府県・市区町村 白地図 無料 図形オブジェクト パズル 学習 色分け - 無料 日本全国の地図素材 uru-map.com	Aug 31
SandyCat｜Trados・Word対応翻訳＆ポストエディットツール sandycat.app	Aug 31
AMS Mailer - メルマガ初心者のための、つまずかないメール配信ツール ams-mailer.com · Productivity · Japan	Aug 23
銀行関連データベース | 銀行・信用金庫の手数料と営業時間がわかるデータベース ginko-time.com	Aug 21
店舗向け口コミブースター｜Google口コミ・口コミ返信・評判管理 kuchikomi-booster.com · Productivity	Aug 19
HOME - 不正対策ツール【ランキングプロテクター】 trunysha.me	Jul 28

Watches, exports and the API give you all 1,971 sites using Lightning, from £15 a month.

1. These figures cover websites that went live since April 2026, not the web as a whole.
2. 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. Too few sites state their country plainly for the usual count, so this one also counts single signals: a country domain ending, a phone number (for North America, its area code), a location the site declares in its own page metadata, or a country-specific vendor stack and the page language where they agree and nothing contradicts them. Read these as likely rather than certain.
3. Some products people expect to see here are filed under a related category: Wordpress Plugin.