Lightning icon

Websites using Lightning

Lightning is a very simple and easy to customize WordPress theme which is based on the Bootstrap.

Lead List Exporter

35.9k live Lightning sites, ready to export.

That's how many Lightning websites are in VersionDB right now, each with its full tech stack, contact details, and social profiles.

Pick a ready-made template, or build your own filters in the Lead List Exporter and pay only for the rows you export.

Open the Lead List Exporter

Just need a few domains? Export up to 10 free from a subset of our crawl.

Start with a list template

Every Lightning website we detected in Japan.

Only sites where a personal, company-hosted email was found.

Sites with at least one personnel LinkedIn profile.

Start with the highest-traffic end of the dataset.

Limit results to Lightning websites on .com domains.

Only sites where an organisation phone number was found.

Create your own
Versions

Which Lightning versions are most used?

We could read a version number on 73% of Lightning sites. Of those, the most common are Lightning 15, on 18,497 sites, Lightning 8, on 6,096 sites and Lightning 13, on 1,687 sites.

70% on v15
Versions detected
3
Sites with a version
26,280
Share of sites by version
v15 70% v8 23% v13 6%
Live Websites

Websites Using Lightning

A sample of live Lightning sites from our latest crawl, with the other technologies each one runs.

How many websites use Lightning?

We found Lightning on 35,980 websites in our September 2026 crawl, across 59 countries.

Which countries use Lightning the most?

By number of websites, the top countries are Japan (97%, 34,930 sites), United States (under 1%, 201 sites), Italy (under 1%, 154 sites), Germany (under 1%, 50 sites) and United Kingdom (under 1%, 44 sites). Together they account for 98% of the 35,980 Lightning sites we track. 92% of the sites are in Japanese, and .com is the most used domain ending, on 53% of them.

Where are Lightning websites hosted?

The networks carrying the most Lightning sites are Xserver Inc. (12,170 sites), GMO Internet, Inc. (11,771 sites) and SAKURA Internet Inc. (7,173 sites).

What technologies are used with Lightning?

Across the 35,980 Lightning sites we track, the technologies most often found alongside it are MySQL (100%, 35,980 sites), PHP (100%, 35,980 sites), WordPress (100%, 35,980 sites), jQuery (over 99%, 35,862 sites) and jQuery Migrate (97%, 34,742 sites).

Deep Dive

Breakdown of Lightning websites

What else they run, plus their language, hosting network, domain extension and country.

FAQ

Answers drawn from our latest crawl of Lightning websites. Anything else, email us and we will look it up.

Through our own crawl, which checks each site's HTML, scripts and headers rather than relying on self-reported data.