⚡ Social Widgets in Japan

Social widgets and tools allow users to share and integrate web content from social media platforms, including buttons to post, like, or save to networks such as Facebook, X, and Pinterest.

Japan is an East Asian country with a population of around 125 million people.

According to our research, social widget tools are used on 16.3% of websites from Japan.

Statistics based on 201K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top social widget tools in Japan in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Tweet with an impressive share of 43.6%, followed by Facebook Share with 24.7% and Twitter Timeline with 24.5%.

Tweet 43.6%
Facebook Share 24.7%
Twitter Timeline 24.5%
Facebook Page Plugin 22.9%
Facebook Like 10.9%
Hatena Bookmark Button 9%
AddToAny 7.4%
Pinterest Save 4.7%
SnapWidget 2.9%
Facebook Like Box 2.4%
Pocket Button 2.1%
Google +1 Button 1.3%
ShareThis 0.8%
EmbedSocial 0.5%
LightWidget 0.3%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top tools that are more popular in Japan than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

3. Twitter Timeline ^(-5)
5. Facebook Like ^(-1)
6. Hatena Bookmark Button ^(-13)
9. SnapWidget ^(-8)
10. Facebook Like Box ^(-2)
11. Pocket Button ^(-22)
12. Google +1 Button ^(-4)
14. EmbedSocial ^(-12)
15. LightWidget ^(-3)
16. Mixi Check ^(-26)

✨ Best Social Widget Tools

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 38 social widget tools used on sites from Japan, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Tweet Bastrop, Texas, United States The Tweet button or link that allows site visitors to share content on X.	43.6%
2	Facebook Share Menlo Park, California, United States Lets people add a personalized message to links before sharing on their timeline, in groups, or to their friends via a Facebook Message.	24.7%
3	Twitter Timeline Bastrop, Texas, United States An easy way to embed Tweets on your website in a compact, linear view.	24.5%
4	Facebook Page Plugin Menlo Park, California, United States Lets you easily embed and promote any public Facebook Page on your website.	22.9%
5	Facebook Like Menlo Park, California, United States A social plugin that allowed websites to embed a button for visitors to like and share web pages on Facebook. Legacy	10.9%
6	Hatena Bookmark Button Kyoto, Japan The share button for the Japanese social service Hatena Bookmark.	9%
7	AddToAny San Francisco, California, United States A universal sharing platform that can be integrated into a website and makes it easy for visitors to share content on any of the 80+ supported services. Free	7.4%
8	Pinterest Save San Francisco, California, United States Allows visitors to save content they like on a site to Pinterest with a single click.	4.7%
9	SnapWidget Pretoria, South Africa Helps you display Instagram, X, Facebook, TikTok and YouTube on your website to increase your followers. $8+/month	2.9%
10	Facebook Like Box Menlo Park, California, United States A plugin that allowed admins to promote their Facebook Pages and embed a simple feed of content from a Page into other sites. Legacy	2.4%
11	Pocket Button Mountain View, California, United States The Pocket Button allowed users to save content to Pocket, a social bookmarking service that shut down in 2025. FreeLegacy	2.1%
12	Google +1 Button Mountain View, California, United States The sharing button code for the discontinued Google +1 service. Legacy	1.3%
13	ShareThis Palo Alto, California, United States A social bookmarking service that provides free website widgets such share, follow and reaction buttons. Free	0.8%
14	EmbedSocial Skopje, Macedonia A social media aggregator that enables brands to collect and embed social media posts or reviews published by other people. Free$29+/month	0.5%
15	LightWidget Dziegielow, Poland A responsive web widget that allows website owners to embed Instagram feeds into their sites. Free$15	0.3%
16	Mixi Check Tokyo, Japan The Mixi Check button (mixiチェック).	0.3%
17	Submit to Reddit San Francisco, California, United States A hyperlink for submission of a URL to Reddit.	0.3%
18	Mixi Like Tokyo, Japan The Mixi Like button (イイネ！ボタン).	0.2%
19	Shareaholic Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Enables marketers, publishers and site owners to personalize how relevant content is discovered, consumed, engaged with, and shared. Free$10+/month	0.1%
20	Tumblr Share San Francisco, California, United States Allows users to post content to Tumblr.	0.1%
21	LinkedIn Share Mountain View, California, United States The LinkedIn Share Plugin allows users to easily share content to their LinkedIn network.	0.1%
22	Social Networks Auto Poster Ringwood, New Jersey, United States A WordPress plugin that automatically publishes posts to social media accounts such as Twitter, Blogger, LinkedIn, Medium, Telegram, etc. Free$$$	0.06%
23	Weibo Share Beijing, China The share button for the Chinese social network Weibo.	0.04%
24	Simple Social Buttons Sialkot, Pakistan A WordPress plugin that allows you to add social sharing buttons to your website. Free$49+	0.04%
25	Social Warfare Harbor Springs, Michigan, United States A social sharing plugin for WordPress with a popular posts widget, click to tweet quotes and premium sharing options. FreeOpen source$29	0.04%

👉 See Also

🌎 Social Widgets in other countries

🗃️ About This Data

We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
This report is based on the analysis of 201,355 websites from Japan.
We currently track the presence of 49 social widget tools across the web.
Of these, 38 were detected on websites from Japan.
Statistics were last calculated on October 7, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.