Top-10 most popular widgets
There are many popular widgets in start.me.
There are quite a lot of widgets available, but which are most popular? In this blog, we explore the widgets start.me users like best.
The two most popular widgets on start.me – it can be no surprise – are the bookmarks and RSS widgets. Of all widgets created, 72% of them are a bookmarks widget.
About a quarter of all bookmarks widgets is set to icon mode, either small or large icons. Ever since custom icons were introduced, about 20% of all bookmark icons have been personalized. RSS widgets make up for another 18% of all widgets created by users.
These are the remaining eight widgets:
- Weather
- Notes
- GMail
- Google Calendar
- Embed widget (to embed custom content)
- World clock
- Analog clock

3 Replies to “Top-10 most popular widgets”
I should start reading your blog more often! I didn’t realize I could icon-ize my bookmark lists.
Nice graphic!
Well, now that we know which widgets are the most popular, I hope you can fix some bugs with those 2 widgets:
• Bookmarks widget: when adding bookmarks I change its title sometimes and saved them that way. However, some bookmarks update & overwrite my title edit, and use the website’s updated title. I have to re-edit those. Kind of annoying.
• Webfeed widget: some feeds don’t refresh as often as desired. I used to test a same webfeed in Mozilla Thunderbird, Netvibes & start.me. start.me is the one who got the worst results, especially in the mobile interface. I have to manually refresh a feed widget to get latest articles/news. Annoying as well.
Hope you can fix those.