🆚 Facebook Like vs. Facebook Like Box
- 📈 Facebook Like is four times more popular than Facebook Like Box.
- 🌎 Facebook Like is more popular in the United States, Japan, and Poland.
- 🌍 Facebook Like Box is more popular in Libya, Mozambique, and Iraq.
Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Social widget tool
Social widget tool
About
Facebook Like Button for the Web was a social plugin that allowed websites to embed a button for visitors to like and share web pages on 
Facebook.
It supported customizable layouts and button sizes, 
Open Graph tags, and display of the page's Facebook like count.
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.
Headquarters
Menlo Park, California, United States
Menlo Park, California, United States
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Facebook Like social widget tool is 4 times more popular than Facebook Like Box.
Total websites
Market share
Social Widgets
Legacy
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Facebook Like is more popular in the United States, Japan, and Poland, while Facebook Like Box is more popular in Libya, Mozambique, and Iraq.
United States
Japan
Poland
France
Italy
United Kingdom
Germany
Spain
Czech Republic
Brazil
Awards
- 🥈 Second most popular in the Czech Republic in the Social Widgets category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Hungary in the Social Widgets category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Slovakia in the Social Widgets category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Poland in the Social Widgets category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Vietnam in the Social Widgets category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Poland in the Social Widgets category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in the Czech Republic in the Social Widgets category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Hungary in the Social Widgets category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Slovakia in the Social Widgets category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Vietnam in the Social Widgets category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Facebook Like is more popular than Facebook Like Box in all market segments.
Blogs/Wiki
Marketing/Merchandising
Entertainment
Online Shopping
Business
Education/Reference
Travel
General News
Internet Services
Sports
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 3,824,193 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.