⚡ Widgets in South Africa

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.

South Africa is an African country with a population of over 60 million people.

According to our statistics, widgets are detected on 11.4% of websites from South Africa.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Facebook Share with a share of 28.9%, followed by Tweet with 27.9% and Pinterest Save with 16.6%.

Facebook Share 28.9%
Tweet 27.9%
Pinterest Save 16.6%
Facebook Page Plugin 10.5%
AddToAny 8.3%
ShareThis 8%
Elfsight 7.4%
Facebook Like 7.1%
Submit to Reddit 6.6%
Twitter Timeline 5.8%
Browse Happy 5.7%
Tumblr Share 4.2%
Tripadvisor Widget 3.7%
Powr 3.5%
Chaty 2.8%

🚀 Highlights

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

1. Facebook Share ^(-1)
3. Pinterest Save ^(-1)
6. ShareThis ^(-1)
7. Elfsight ^(-4)
9. Submit to Reddit ^(-3)
12. Tumblr Share ^(-3)
13. Tripadvisor Widget ^(-6)
15. Chaty ^(-2)
17. Shareaholic ^(-9)
18. Weather Widget ^(-12)

✨ Best Widgets

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 59 widgets used on sites from South Africa, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	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.	28.9%
2	Tweet Bastrop, Texas, United States The Tweet button or link that allows site visitors to share content on X.	27.9%
3	Pinterest Save San Francisco, California, United States Allows visitors to save content they like on a site to Pinterest with a single click.	16.6%
4	Facebook Page Plugin Menlo Park, California, United States Lets you easily embed and promote any public Facebook Page on your website.	10.5%
5	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	8.3%
6	ShareThis Palo Alto, California, United States A social bookmarking service that provides free website widgets such share, follow and reaction buttons. Free	8%
7	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	7.4%
8	Facebook Like Menlo Park, California, United States A widget that can be integrated into a website to enable visitors to "Like" posts on Facebook.	7.1%
9	Submit to Reddit San Francisco, California, United States A hyperlink for submission of a URL to Reddit.	6.6%
10	Twitter Timeline Bastrop, Texas, United States An easy way to embed Tweets on your website in a compact, linear view.	5.8%
11	Browse Happy A simple website often linked to show users with outdated browsers the latest versions of major browsers.	5.7%
12	Tumblr Share San Francisco, California, United States Allows users to post content to Tumblr.	4.2%
13	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.	3.7%
14	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	3.5%
15	Chaty Tel Aviv, Israel A website communication widget that lets site owners add chat buttons so visitors can contact support through their preferred messaging apps. Free$15+/month	2.8%
16	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	1.5%
17	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	1%
18	Weather Widget A free, customizable, responsive weather widget that can be embedded into any website. Free$$$	0.9%
19	Call Now Button Amsterdam, Netherlands A click-to-call plugin that adds a "Call Now" button to WordPress websites. FreeOpen source$49.90/year	0.8%
20	LightWidget Dziegielow, Poland A responsive web widget that allows website owners to embed Instagram feeds into their sites. Free$15	0.8%
21	Baidu Share Beijing, China The Baidu Share button.	0.7%
22	GetButton Helsinki, Finland The chat button by GetButton takes website visitors directly to the messaging app such as WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger and allows them to initiate a conversation. $4.99+/month	0.7%
23	Embedly Dover, Delaware, United States A service for engaging your audience through rich media embeds with support for over 1000 content providers. $9+/month	0.7%
24	SociableKIT Quezon City, Philippines A website widget that allows you to add customized social media content to your website. Free$20+/source/month	0.6%
25	Location Weather Wilmington, Delaware, United States A weather forecast plugin that allows users to display real-time weather information on WordPress websites. Free$49+/year	0.5%

👉 See Also

🌎 Widgets in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 17,795 websites from South Africa.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.