🆚 Facebook Like Box vs. Facebook Share
- 📈 Facebook Share is much more popular than Facebook Like Box.
- 🌎 Facebook Share is more popular in the United States, Japan, and Germany.
- 🌍 Facebook Like Box is more popular in Azerbaijan, Libya, and Brunei Darussalam.
Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Widget
Social sharing tool
About
The 
Facebook Like Box was a plugin that allowed admins to promote their Facebook Pages and embed a simple feed of content from a Page into other sites. Deprecated in favor of the Facebook Page Plugin.
The Facebook Share button lets people add a personalized message to links before sharing on their timeline, in groups, or to their friends via a Facebook Message.
Headquarters
Menlo Park, California, United States
Menlo Park, California, United States
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Facebook Share social sharing tool is 10 times more popular than Facebook Like Box.
Total websites
Market share
Widgets
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Facebook Share is more popular in the United States, Japan, and Germany, while Facebook Like Box is more popular in Azerbaijan, Libya, and Brunei Darussalam.
United States
Japan
Germany
United Kingdom
France
Italy
Spain
Netherlands
Canada
Australia
Awards
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Azerbaijan in the Widgets category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Poland in the Widgets category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in the Czech Republic in the Widgets category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Hungary in the Widgets category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Poland in the Legacy category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Widgets category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Social Sharing category.
- 🥇 Most popular in France in the Widgets category.
- 🥇 Most popular in France in the Social Sharing category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Spain in the Widgets category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Facebook Share is more popular than Facebook Like Box in all market segments.
Business
Blogs/Wiki
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Entertainment
Online Shopping
Travel
General News
Internet Services
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
Twitter Timeline
Google +1 Button
Submit to Reddit
Tumblr Share
LinkedIn Share
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 3,511,995 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.