🆚 Craigslist vs. Facebook Marketplace
- 📈 Craigslist is four times more popular than Facebook Marketplace.
- 🌎 Craigslist is more popular in the United States, Canada, and China.
- 🌍 Facebook Marketplace is more popular in the United Kingdom and Australia.
Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Online marketplace
Online marketplace
About
Craigslist is an online platform featuring local classified advertisements and community forums, organized by geographic location and category for goods, services, jobs, housing, and discussions.
Facebook Marketplace is a digital marketplace within the 
Facebook platform where users can buy and sell items.
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Menlo Park, California, United States
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Craigslist marketplace is 4 times more popular than Facebook Marketplace.
Total websites
Market share
Marketplaces
Classified Ads
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Craigslist is more popular in the United States, Canada, and China, while Facebook Marketplace is more popular in the United Kingdom and Australia.
United States
Canada
United Kingdom
China
Japan
Argentina
Brazil
Israel
Australia
Peru
Awards
- 🥉 Third most popular in the United States in the Classified Ads category.
- ⬆️ 21st most popular in the United States in the Marketplaces category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Craigslist is more popular among sites focused on portal sites, real estate, and marketing and merchandising, while Facebook Marketplace is more commonly used on online shopping sites.
Portal Sites
Real Estate
Marketing/Merchandising
Business
Search Engines
Online Shopping
Blogs/Wiki
Forum/Bulletin Boards
Public Information
Internet Services
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Meta company profile🗃️ 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 3,823,966 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.