🆚 Facebook Like Box vs. Google +1 Button
- 📈 Facebook Like Box is twice as popular as Google +1 Button.
- 🌎 Facebook Like Box is more popular in the United States, Japan, and Poland.
- 🌍 Google +1 Button is more popular in Russia and Iran.
Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Google +1 ButtonType
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 sharing button code for the discontinued Google +1 service.
Headquarters
Menlo Park, California, United States
Mountain View, California, United States
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Facebook Like Box widget is 2.3 times more popular than Google +1 Button.
Total websites
Market share
Widgets
Legacy
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Facebook Like Box is more popular in the United States, Japan, and Poland, while Google +1 Button is more popular in Russia and Iran.
United States
Japan
Poland
Italy
Germany
France
United Kingdom
Spain
Brazil
Czech Republic
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.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Iran in the Social Sharing category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Japan in the Social Sharing category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Vietnam in the Social Sharing category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in the Czech Republic in the Social Sharing category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Bulgaria in the Social Sharing category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Facebook Like Box is more popular among sites focused on blogs and wiki, entertainment, and marketing and merchandising, while Google +1 Button is more commonly used on Internet services, software and hardware, and health sites.
Blogs/Wiki
Entertainment
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Business
Online Shopping
Travel
General News
Internet Services
Sports
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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- 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.