🆚 Facebook Like vs. Facebook Page Plugin
- 📈 Facebook Page Plugin is noticeably more popular than Facebook Like.
- 🌎 Facebook Page Plugin is more popular in the United States, Japan, and France.
- 🌍 Facebook Like is more popular in Germany, Russia, and Switzerland.
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 Page Plugin lets you easily embed and promote any public Facebook Page on your website.
Headquarters
Menlo Park, California, United States
Menlo Park, California, United States
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Facebook Page Plugin widget is 1.5 times more popular than Facebook Like.
Total websites
Market share
Widgets
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Facebook Page Plugin is more popular in the United States, Japan, and France, while Facebook Like is more popular in Germany, Russia, and Switzerland.
United States
Japan
France
Italy
Vietnam
Poland
United Kingdom
Brazil
Germany
Spain
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.
- 🥇 Most popular in Vietnam in the Widgets category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Brazil in the Widgets category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Poland in the Widgets category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the Czech Republic in the Widgets category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Hungary in the Widgets category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Facebook Page Plugin is more popular among sites focused on blogs and wiki, business, and online shopping, while Facebook Like is more commonly used on marketing and merchandising, entertainment, and Internet services sites.
Blogs/Wiki
Marketing/Merchandising
Business
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Entertainment
General News
Travel
Sports
Internet Services
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.