🆚 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 Mozambique, Libya, and Tajikistan.
Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Social sharing tool
Widget
About
The 
Facebook Like Button for the Web is a widget that can be integrated into a website to enable visitors to "Like" posts on Facebook.
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 sharing tool is 4 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 Like is more popular in the United States, Japan, and Poland, while Facebook Like Box is more popular in Mozambique, Libya, and Tajikistan.
United States
Japan
Poland
France
United Kingdom
Germany
Italy
Spain
Czech Republic
Brazil
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in Poland in the Social Sharing category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the Czech Republic in the Social Sharing category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Hungary in the Social Sharing category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Slovakia in the Social Sharing category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Azerbaijan in the Social Sharing category.
- ⭐ 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.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Facebook Like is more popular among sites focused on blogs and wiki, marketing and merchandising, and entertainment, while Facebook Like Box is more commonly used on recreation and hobbies sites.
Blogs/Wiki
Marketing/Merchandising
Entertainment
Online Shopping
Business
Education/Reference
Travel
Internet Services
General News
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 3,511,995 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.