Companies Using WeatherWidget.io

I expected a weather widget to live on hobby blogs. Our October 2026 crawl puts it somewhere else. WeatherWidget.io loads on 8,066 live domains, 5,051 of them matched to a company, and the names read like a visitor guide: hotels, golf clubs, county offices, school districts, airlines, a port authority. A domain counts when one of its pages loads the widget's script from weatherwidget.io. The test holds: in a random sample of 12 domains, 11 loaded the script and the 12th timed out, and 41 of the 50 companies in our list loaded it when we opened them.

Three readings and a step

The chart has three points: 5,684 in August, 7,871 in September and 8,066 in October. Most of the jump into September is on our side. The set of domains we crawl turns over every month, with dead sites dropping out and new ones added, and our detection signals widen over time; both move the line. Since 4 August, 429 domains have dropped the widget from at least one hostname. That overstates the loss. When I re-checked 433 such domains, 147 still ran it on another hostname.

"A weather widget looks like a hobbyist's toy. In our crawl it sits on town-hall, school and hotel websites, and one in five of the companies behind it was founded before 1960." - Sophie Clarke, Product Marketing Manager at TechnologyChecker.io

Sales signal: treat this as a stable list of about 8,000 domains rather than a growth segment. What makes it useful is the owner. A site that puts the local forecast on its homepage is usually selling a place, a stay or a visit.

Old organisations, small teams

66.44% of matched companies with a known size have 1 to 10 employees and 22.41% have 11 to 50. Age pulls the other way. 20.16% were founded before 1960, about four times the median (4.96%) across the 542 published profiles on TechnologyChecker.io with an age chart, and the profiles above it mostly sell enterprise software. Here the old, small organisations are public bodies and clubs. Our records date Pima County to 1864, the City of Vallejo to 1851, Grand Blanc Community Schools to 1830 and Medinah Country Club to 1924. Of the 14 organisations in our list with more than 1,000 staff, 13 are public bodies.

Sales signal: expect a communications officer or a front-desk manager, not an IT department, and procurement rules at the bigger accounts. Website, accessibility and visitor-information vendors fit this list better than developer tools do.

The visitor trade and the town hall

Put Hospitality (15.62%) together with Travel Arrangements (3.94%) and Recreational Facilities (3.05%) and the visitor trade is 22.61% of matched companies. Only three of the 141 published profiles that chart Hospitality show a higher share for it, and two of those, Cloudbeds and Lodgify, are hotel software. Government Administration adds 10.04% and Spectator Sports 5.52%; in our list that means a race series and a sports park as well as a league: Supercars, WinSport's Canada Olympic Park and the NRL. The United States has 2,429 matched companies and Canada 294. Brazil (209) is fourth, and 67 live domains end in .gov.br, such as Serra Negra's town hall, which labels the widget in Portuguese.

Sales signal: if you sell to destinations, this is a ready list of organisations that care what a visitor sees before arriving: resorts, golf and country clubs, parks, a ski resort like Alyeska, and the tourism portals of small towns.

Beside other weather tools

I looked for a switching story and didn't find one. Only 12 domains run WeatherWidget.io and AccuWeather together today, and our AccuWeather count mostly measures links to AccuWeather's site, not a rival widget. Google's results for free weather widgets put weatherwidget.org, Common Ninja, meteoblue and Elfsight beside it, but those are options a new site picks between, not destinations we can see current sites moving to. Shared platforms are rare too. The travel-package sites of the NRL, Supercars and the Australian Grand Prix Corporation share one template and asset host, and all three load the script. They're the exception; the other widgets we opened were each set up by hand for one organisation's own location.

"Nobody is swapping weather widgets. The useful signal is who bothers to put one on the homepage, and that's places that want visitors." - Sophie Clarke, Product Marketing Manager at TechnologyChecker.io

Sales signal: skip the displacement pitch. Offer what sits next to the widget, such as booking, events, maps or webcams, to an owner who has already decided the homepage should help visitors plan.

The stack around it

Across the 8,113 domains in our clean live set, WordPress runs on 44.71%, Elementor on 14.57% and Divi on 4.36%, and GoDaddy hosts 16.71%. jQuery is on 89.7% and jQuery UI on 36.62%, so many of these are older template builds. Google Analytics is on 63.11%. Hotel booking engines barely register on the same domains: Triptease 0.46%, Simplotel 0.33%, Lodgify 0.32%, OpenTable 0.23%, Cloudbeds 0.18%.

Sales signal: a hospitality site with a weather widget and no booking engine on its own domain is a direct-booking prospect. Agencies that rebuild ageing WordPress sites for councils and hotels will get use from this list too.

What it costs

Nothing. The WeatherWidget.io home page says the widget is free on any website, personal or commercial, with no sign-up. Its terms of service (last updated 4 August 2018) allow 8 widgets per page and 35 locations per website, limit the free widget to public web pages, and require the link to a Forecast7.com forecast page to stay. Digital signage needs a pro version, offered on request. The footer credits OpenWeather for the data.

Sales signal: because it costs nothing, nobody has a budget line for it, and a rival free widget has nothing to win on price. The budget sits with whatever the visitor does after checking the forecast.

Key takeaways

1. 8,066 live domains, 10th of 66 in Maps & Geolocation and the largest weather embed in that table.

2. The visitor trade is 22.61% of matched companies and Government Administration another 10.04%.

3. Small and old at once: 66.44% have 10 or fewer staff, and 20.16% were founded before 1960.

4. No switching between weather tools, and no platform installing it at scale.

5. WordPress on 44.71% of domains, with almost no booking engines beside it.

How to use this list

Filter by industry and country first, because a ski resort in Alaska and a prefeitura in São Paulo state want different things. For the full list of 8,066 WeatherWidget.io domains with company, size and stack data, explore TechnologyChecker.io.