🆚 Facebook Like vs. Facebook Page Plugin
- 📈 Facebook Page Plugin is noticeably more popular than Facebook Like.
- 🌎 Facebook Page Plugin is more popular in Japan, the United States, and Poland.
- 🌍 Facebook Like is more popular in Germany, Russia, and Turkey.
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 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 social widget tool is 1.6 times more popular than Facebook Like.
Total websites
Market share
Social Widgets
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Facebook Page Plugin is more popular in Japan, the United States, and Poland, while Facebook Like is more popular in Germany, Russia, and Turkey.
Japan
United States
Poland
Italy
Vietnam
France
United Kingdom
Brazil
Spain
Czech Republic
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.
- 🥇 Most popular in Vietnam in the Social Widgets category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Poland in the Social Widgets category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Brazil in the Social Widgets category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the Czech Republic in the Social Widgets category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Hungary in the Social 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, marketing and merchandising, and business, while Facebook Like is more commonly used on entertainment, Internet services, and games 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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Technologies with similar characteristics.
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.