Websites Using the Lightning Theme
We found 8,069 live WordPress websites running the Lightning theme, which makes it the 28th most used theme in our scan of the top 20 million domains (0.3% of the 2,424,552 websites using WordPress we verified). Outside generic extensions (64% use .com, .org and similar), the biggest markets are Japan, Italy and United Kingdom.
How Lightning sites compare
- 0.8% of Lightning sites use Rank Math, well below the WordPress average (9.9%).
- 6.6% of Lightning sites use Yoast SEO, well below the WordPress average (41%).
- 4.7% of Lightning sites are built with Elementor, well below the WordPress average (23%).
- 1.9% of Lightning sites run WooCommerce, well below the WordPress average (9.5%).
What Lightning websites are built with
Plugins used alongside
Share of Lightning sites that also load each plugin on their homepage.
Page builders
93% of these sites use no detectable page builder.
SEO plugins
Detected from plugin files and the HTML comments SEO plugins add.
Countries
By country domain extension. 64% use generic extensions (.com, .org, .net…).
Languages
Language declared in the page's <html lang> attribute.
WordPress versions
Among sites that expose their version (91%); the rest hide it.
Hosting (when identifiable)
Only hosts that identify themselves in HTTP headers are counted.
How popular these sites are
Rank is the position of the domain in a list of the 100 million most-visited domains; lower means more traffic.
Top 10 Lightning websites by traffic rank
The full list of all 8,069 sites, with every column, is in the dataset.
| Rank | Domain | Homepage title | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 38,193 | mbsj.jp | 特定非営利活動法人 日本分子生物学会（MBSJ） | The Molecular Biology Society of Japan | Japan |
| 50,724 | edia.co.jp | 株式会社エディア | Japan |
| 62,138 | netstill.com | netstill | The information distiller on the net | Global (.com/.org/.net) |
| 62,408 | fineseed.net | 株式会社ファインシード | すべての人がワクワクする新しい体験をつくる企業。採用情報・事業案内・会社概要・プレスリリースなどをご覧いただけます。 | Global (.com/.org/.net) |
| 64,316 | kankyokansen.org | 一般社団法人 日本環境感染学会 | Global (.com/.org/.net) |
| 74,373 | mtb-l.jp | MTB League of Japan | Japan |
| 75,551 | puzzling.jp | PUZZLING | PUZZLE & TABLE GAMES | Japan |
| 80,182 | easts.info | EASTS (Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies) | Global (.com/.org/.net) |
| 83,308 | apnns.org | APNNS | Asia Pacific Neural Network Society | Global (.com/.org/.net) |
| 85,782 | jcas.jp | 地域研究コンソーシアム | Japan Consortium for Area Studies (JCAS) | Japan |
Get all 8,069 Lightning websites
All 8,069 Lightning sites are in the full dataset: filter the theme column to get them, with domain, URL, title, WordPress version, theme, plugins, page builder, SEO plugin, hosting, language and country for every site. CSV, ready for Excel or your CRM.