⚡ Widgets in Japan

Widgets are interactive web elements that can be easily embedded into websites to enhance functionality and user engagement by providing features such as social sharing, customer reviews, pop-ups, quizzes, or displaying other third-party content.

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

According to our statistics, widgets are detected on 17.5% of websites from Japan.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top widgets on websites in Japan in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Tweet with an impressive share of 40.8%, followed by Twitter Timeline with 25.5% and Facebook Share with 25.3%.

Tweet 40.8%
Twitter Timeline 25.5%
Facebook Share 25.3%
Facebook Page Plugin 21.7%
Facebook Like 12.1%
Hatena Bookmark Button 8.2%
AddToAny 6.5%
Pinterest Save 4.5%
Facebook Like Box 2.8%
SnapWidget 2.6%
Google +1 Button 1.5%
Powr 1.5%
Browse Happy 1%
ShareThis 0.8%
DigiCert Site Seal 0.6%

🚀 Highlights

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

2. Twitter Timeline ^(-7)
5. Facebook Like ^(-1)
6. Hatena Bookmark Button ^(-23)
9. Facebook Like Box ^(-7)
10. SnapWidget ^(-15)
11. Google +1 Button ^(-9)
12. Powr ^(-2)
15. DigiCert Site Seal ^(-29)
17. Tripadvisor Widget ^(-2)
19. Mixi Check ^(-58)

✨ Best Widgets

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 66 widgets 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.	40.8%
2	Twitter Timeline Bastrop, Texas, United States An easy way to embed Tweets on your website in a compact, linear view.	25.5%
3	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.	25.3%
4	Facebook Page Plugin Menlo Park, California, United States Lets you easily embed and promote any public Facebook Page on your website.	21.7%
5	Facebook Like Menlo Park, California, United States A widget that can be integrated into a website to enable visitors to "Like" posts on Facebook.	12.1%
6	Hatena Bookmark Button Kyoto, Japan The share button for the Japanese social service Hatena Bookmark.	8.2%
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	6.5%
8	Pinterest Save San Francisco, California, United States Allows visitors to save content they like on a site to Pinterest with a single click.	4.5%
9	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	2.8%
10	SnapWidget Pretoria, South Africa Helps you display Instagram, X, Facebook, TikTok and YouTube on your website to increase your followers. $8+/month	2.6%
11	Google +1 Button Mountain View, California, United States The sharing button code for the discontinued Google +1 service. Legacy	1.5%
12	Powr San Francisco, California, United States A suite of over 60 customizable, code-free website applications that include popups, image galleries, video sliders, social feed embeds, and customer reviews. Free$8.99+/month	1.5%
13	Browse Happy A simple website often linked to show users with outdated browsers the latest versions of major browsers.	1%
14	ShareThis Palo Alto, California, United States A social bookmarking service that provides free website widgets such share, follow and reaction buttons. Free	0.8%
15	DigiCert Site Seal Lehi, Utah, United States DigiCert Smart Site Seal allows website visitors to verify the organization and TLS/SSL certificates of a referring website.	0.6%
16	Elfsight Yerevan, Armenia A subscription-based service that offers a suite of customizable website widgets that help businesses increase user engagement, capture leads, and drive sales. Free$5+/month	0.6%
17	Tripadvisor Widget Needham, Massachusetts, United States A simple web application that allows you to easily embed dynamic content, such as recent reviews and awards from your Tripadvisor page, into your website.	0.6%
18	Embedly Dover, Delaware, United States A service for engaging your audience through rich media embeds with support for over 1000 content providers. $9+/month	0.4%
19	Mixi Check Tokyo, Japan The Mixi Check button (mixiチェック).	0.3%
20	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	0.3%
21	LightWidget Dziegielow, Poland A responsive web widget that allows website owners to embed Instagram feeds into their sites. Free$15	0.2%
22	Iframely Ottawa, Ontario, Canada A uniform delivery service that allows website owners to embed URL previews, videos, audio, images, slideshows, and other rich media into their sites. Free$49+/month	0.2%
23	Mixi Like Tokyo, Japan The Mixi Like button (イイネ！ボタン).	0.2%
24	Submit to Reddit San Francisco, California, United States A hyperlink for submission of a URL to Reddit.	0.2%
25	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%

👉 See Also

🌎 Widgets in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 157,205 websites from Japan.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.