🆚 Facebook Like Box vs. Pocket Button
- 📈 Facebook Like Box is much more popular than Pocket Button.
- 🌍 Facebook Like Box is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ Pocket Button is particularly popular in Japan.
Statistics based on 3.6M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Pocket ButtonType
Social widget tool
Legacy technology
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 Pocket Button allowed users to save content to Pocket, a social bookmarking service that shut down in 2025.
Headquarters
Menlo Park, California, United States
Mountain View, California, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Facebook Like Box social widget tool is 10 times more popular than Pocket Button.
Total websites
Market share
Social Widgets
Legacy
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Facebook Like Box is more popular than Pocket Button in all countries.
Japan
United States
Poland
Italy
Brazil
Germany
France
Czech Republic
Spain
Hungary
Awards
- ⭐ 10th most popular in Poland in the Legacy category.
- ⭐ 10th most popular in Hungary in the Legacy category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in Bulgaria in the Legacy category.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in the Czech Republic in the Legacy category.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in Thailand in the Legacy category.
- 🔥 16th most popular in Japan in the Legacy category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Facebook Like Box is more popular than Pocket Button in all market segments.
Blogs/Wiki
Entertainment
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Business
General News
Online Shopping
Travel
Sports
Recreation/Hobbies
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Technologies with similar characteristics.
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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 3,655,631 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.