Websites using Lightning 8.x
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Every Lightning 8.x 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 8.x websites on .com domains.
Only sites where an organisation phone number was found.
Which Lightning 8.x versions are most used?
We could read a version number on 31% of Lightning 8.x sites. Of those, the most common are Lightning 8.27.2, on 1,374 sites and Lightning 8.27.1, on 511 sites.
- Versions detected
- 2
- Sites with a version
- 1,885
Websites Using Lightning 8.x
A sample of live Lightning 8.x sites from our latest crawl, with the other technologies each one runs.
| Domain | Also runs | Crawl Date |
|---|---|---|
| genkanmaster.com | September 27, 2026 | |
| tamagawa-hanabi.com | September 27, 2026 | |
| wada-cl.net | September 25, 2026 | |
| naoyukimaru.net | September 25, 2026 | |
| nagahama-bunspo.com | September 25, 2026 | |
| kawaguchi-website.jp | September 25, 2026 | |
| kanedai-isehara.com | September 25, 2026 | |
| jf-group.co.jp | September 25, 2026 | |
| chat-noir.net | September 24, 2026 | |
| bnpj.jp | September 24, 2026 |
How many websites use Lightning 8.x?
We found Lightning 8.x on 6,096 websites in our September 2026 crawl, across 14 countries.
Which countries use Lightning 8.x the most?
By number of websites, the top countries are Japan (over 99%, 6,048 sites), India (under 1%, 9 sites), United States (under 1%, 9 sites), Singapore (under 1%, 5 sites) and Australia (under 1%, 2 sites). Together they account for over 99% of the 6,096 Lightning 8.x sites we track. 97% of the sites are in Japanese, and .com is the most used domain ending, on 54% of them.
Where are Lightning 8.x websites hosted?
The networks carrying the most Lightning 8.x sites are Xserver Inc. (2,344 sites), GMO Internet, Inc. (1,959 sites) and SAKURA Internet Inc. (1,239 sites).
What technologies are used with Lightning 8.x?
Across the 6,096 Lightning 8.x sites we track, the technologies most often found alongside it are MySQL (100%, 6,096 sites), PHP (100%, 6,096 sites), WordPress (100%, 6,096 sites), Bootstrap (over 99%, 6,095 sites) and jQuery (over 99%, 6,076 sites).
Breakdown of Lightning 8.x websites
What else they run, plus their language, hosting network, domain extension and country.
| Technology | Sites |
|---|---|
MySQL | 6,096 |
PHP | 6,096 |
WordPress | 6,096 |
Bootstrap | 6,095 |
jQuery | 6,076 |
|
jQuery Migrate | 5,995 |
Nginx | 4,041 |
Contact Form 7 | 3,789 |
|
WordPress Block Editor | 3,465 |
Clipboard.js | 3,446 |
Google Analytics | 3,201 |
reCAPTCHA | 1,890 |
All in One SEO | 1,836 |
|
All in One SEO Pack | 1,596 |
Apache HTTP Server | 1,556 |
Site Kit | 1,052 |
Google Tag Manager | 708 |
Lightbox | 631 |
Swiper | 614 |
YouTube | 507 |
LiteSpeed | 473 |
|
LiteSpeed Cache | 405 |
Yoast SEO | 366 |
Smash Balloon Instagram Feed | 352 |
| Instagram Feed for WordPress | 350 |
| Language | Sites |
|---|---|
| Japanese | 5,883 |
| Chinese | 81 |
| English | 79 |
| German | 7 |
| Latin | 6 |
| Afrikaans | 5 |
| Welsh | 4 |
| Danish | 2 |
| Norwegian Nynorsk | 2 |
| Shona | 2 |
| Southern Sotho | 2 |
| Tagalog | 2 |
| Yoruba | 2 |
| Catalan | 1 |
| Esperanto | 1 |
| Finnish | 1 |
| French | 1 |
| Hungarian | 1 |
| Italian | 1 |
| Mฤori | 1 |
| Malay | 1 |
| Polish | 1 |
| Spanish | 1 |
| Albanian | 1 |
| Swahili | 1 |
| ASN | Sites |
|---|---|
| Xserver Inc. | 2,344 |
| GMO Internet, Inc. | 1,959 |
| SAKURA Internet Inc. | 1,239 |
| GMO Internet Group, Inc. | 67 |
| DigiRock, Inc. | 62 |
| IDC Frontier Inc. | 57 |
| GMO GlobalSign Holdings K.K. | 56 |
| KDDI Web Communications Inc. | 54 |
| NTT PC Communications, Inc. | 38 |
| NTT DOCOMO BUSINESS,Inc. | 35 |
| KAGOYA JAPAN Inc. | 25 |
| Amazon.com, Inc. | 24 |
| Cloudflare, Inc. | 14 |
| KDDI CORPORATION | 12 |
| Tsukaeru.net, Web Hosting Company, Japan | 12 |
| Otsuka Corp. | 9 |
| ARTERIA Networks Corporation | 7 |
| ASJ INC. | 7 |
| Oracle Corporation | 6 |
| Pacific Software Publishing, Inc. | 6 |
| Canon IT Solutions Inc. | 5 |
| FC2 Inc | 4 |
| Microsoft Corporation | 4 |
| Mirai Communication Network Inc. | 4 |
| Akamai Connected Cloud | 3 |
| TLD | Sites |
|---|---|
| com | 3,263 |
| jp | 1,966 |
| net | 387 |
| info | 101 |
| org | 83 |
| biz | 56 |
| tokyo | 48 |
| site | 25 |
| work | 21 |
| clinic | 12 |
| in | 9 |
| club | 8 |
| shop | 7 |
| me | 6 |
| life | 5 |
| okinawa | 5 |
| space | 5 |
| website | 5 |
| fun | 4 |
| group | 4 |
| ltd | 4 |
| online | 4 |
| pro | 4 |
| sg | 4 |
| yokohama | 4 |
| Country | Sites |
|---|---|
| ๐ฏ๐ต Japan | 6,048 |
| Unknown | 14 |
| ๐ฎ๐ณ India | 9 |
| ๐บ๐ธ United States | 9 |
| ๐ธ๐ฌ Singapore | 5 |
| ๐ฆ๐บ Australia | 2 |
| ๐จ๐ฆ Canada | 1 |
| ๐ฉ๐ช Germany | 1 |
| ๐ช๐ธ Spain | 1 |
| ๐ฌ๐ง United Kingdom | 1 |
| ๐ฎ๐น Italy | 1 |
| ๐ฑ๐ฐ Sri Lanka | 1 |
| ๐ณ๐ฟ New Zealand | 1 |
| ๐น๐ผ Taiwan | 1 |
| ๐ป๐ณ Vietnam | 1 |
FAQ
Answers drawn from our latest crawl of Lightning 8.x 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.