⚡ Widgets in South Africa

Widgets are interactive web elements that can be easily embedded into websites to enhance functionality and user engagement.

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

According to our statistics, widgets are detected on 3% of websites from South Africa.

Statistics based on 19K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ 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 Elfsight with an impressive share of 32.6%, followed by Browse Happy with 19.3% and Powr with 17.1%.

Elfsight 32.6%
Browse Happy 19.3%
Powr 17.1%
Tripadvisor Widget 10.4%
Embedly 3.9%
Weather Widget 3%
Common Ninja 2.3%
Browser-Update 2.2%
Location Weather 2.2%
TrustedSite 2.2%
Sectigo Trust Seal 1.5%
OpenWeather 1.5%
Godaddy Trust Seal 1.3%
PrintFriendly 1.3%
Zotabox 0.8%

🚀 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. Elfsight ^(-1)
4. Tripadvisor Widget ^(-1)
6. Weather Widget ^(-1)
7. Common Ninja ^(-2)
9. Location Weather ^(-6)
11. Sectigo Trust Seal ^(-1)
12. OpenWeather ^(-4)
18. Website Carbon ^(-1)
19. Meteoblue ^(-9)

✨ Best Widgets

Below is a more detailed list of 23 widgets used on sites from South Africa, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Elfsight Yerevan, Armenia A subscription-based platform that provides a large library of no-code website widgets to enhance functionality, engagement, and conversions. Free$5+/month	32.6%
2	Browse Happy San Francisco, California, United States A simple website often linked to help users with outdated browsers find the latest versions of major browsers.	19.3%
3	Powr San Francisco, California, United States A suite of website applications that enables users to add functional widgets such as forms, popups, galleries, and social feeds to websites without programming. Free$10.99+/month	17.1%
4	Tripadvisor Widget Needham, Massachusetts, United States A simple web application that allows users to embed dynamic content, such as recent reviews and awards from their Tripadvisor pages, into their websites.	10.4%
5	Embedly San Francisco, California, United States A URL embedding service that provides APIs and front-end tools for converting standard links into rich media previews from over 1,000 content providers. $14+/month	3.9%
6	Weather Widget A free, customizable, responsive weather widget that can be embedded into any website. Free$$$	3%
7	Common Ninja Netanya, Israel Provides over 200 customizable widgets for websites, including social feeds, image sliders, forms, popups, reviews, currency converters, counters, and live weather forecast. Free$10+/month	2.3%
8	Browser-Update Augsburg, Germany A tool to unobtrusively notify visitors that they should update their web browser in order to use your website. Free	2.2%
9	Location Weather Wilmington, Delaware, United States A weather forecast plugin that allows users to display real-time weather information on WordPress websites. Free$49+/year	2.2%
10	TrustedSite Miami Beach, Florida, United States Enables customer websites to display engagement trustmarks (such as Certified Secure, Secure Checkout, and Spam-Free) that show off the certifications they have earned. Free$$$	2.2%
11	Sectigo Trust Seal Scottsdale, Arizona, United States A visual stamp that indicates the site is secure and authentic.	1.5%
12	OpenWeather London, United Kingdom Provides comprehensive weather data services, including current, forecast, and historical weather information. Free tier0.0012 GBP+	1.5%
13	Godaddy Trust Seal Tempe, Arizona, United States The GoDaddy Trust Seal can be placed on websites of GoDaddy customers who purchased an SSL certificate from the company. $69.99+/year	1.3%
14	PrintFriendly West Hollywood, California, United States PrintFriendly Print Button enables users to create printer-friendly versions of web pages and export them to PDF. Free$40/month	1.3%
15	Zotabox Hanoi, Vietnam A package of 20+ marketing tools to increase website sales and get more email subscribers. Free$6.49+/month	0.8%
16	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.	0.7%
17	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	0.5%
18	Website Carbon London, United Kingdom A carbon calculator widget that can be added to any website to display the carbon emissions of each page. Free	0.3%
19	Meteoblue Basel, Switzerland Provides customizable Weather Maps, Daily Weather, 3h Weather, and Astronomy widgets ready for integration into any website. Free$$$	0.3%
20	OpenWidget Wrocław, Poland Allows users to embed Google Reviews, WhatsApp chat, Messenger chat, visitor counter, contact form and other widgets that can help improve customer engagement. Free	0.2%
21	VikingCloud Seal Chicago, Illinois, United States A VikingCloud Trusted Commerce website seal indicates that the referring organization has passed identity and SSL certificate validation. $49.99+/year	0.2%
22	VideoAsk Barcelona, Spain An interactive video tool that allows businesses to create asynchronous video conversations and collect video, audio, or text responses from their audiences. Free$30+/month	0.2%
23	Booking.com Official Search Box Norwalk, Connecticut, United States A user-friendly, customisable WordPress plugin to add the Booking.com search box to your own website.	0.2%

👉 See Also

🌎 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 19,988 websites from South Africa.
We currently track the presence of 32 widgets across the web.
Of these, 23 were detected on websites from South Africa.
Statistics were last calculated on August 28, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.