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, day by day for the last 90 days and weekly before that (left of the dashed line). It starts at our first detection. The shaded areas were measured against a different set of sites, so the line can step there without Lightning itself changing.^[2][3]

#	Movement	Tool	Share of all sites	Share of category[5]	Bar
1	–	Astra	1.5%	37.0%
2	▲1	GeneratePress	0.3%	7.7%
3	▼2	Blocksy	0.3%	7.4%
4	▲1	WoodMart	0.3%	7.4%
5	–	Flatsome	0.2%	5.7%
…
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 1570 in Wordpress Theme

Tool	Sites with both	vs all new sites	Bar
VK	913	1172x
Xserver DNS	999	198x
Xserver Email	1,000	185x
Swiper	1,881	29x
Font Awesome	1,845	14x

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 1,930 sites using Lightning are product launches we list individually. The other 1,922 are sites we found crawling the wider web: they count towards the figures above, but we do not publish them one by one. They are included in the StackScope API and in Stackdar alerts.

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

The StackScope API serves all 1,930 sites using Lightning, filterable and exportable, from £15 a month.

1. These figures cover websites that went live since April 2026, not the web as a whole.
2. Grey: before 8 July 2026, we only tracked launches from launch platforms. From that date we crawl the wider web as well, so the share is measured against a much larger set of sites. For one continuous measure, view launch platforms only.
3. Amber: 8 July to 10 September 2026, before we improved our infrastructure to index new sites much sooner, often on the day they go live. Sites found that early often haven't finished setting up, so anything usually added after launch reads lower from 10 September. We record each site as it was when we found it.
4. 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.
5. Some products people expect to see here are filed under a related category: Wordpress Plugin.