🆚 Facebook Like vs. Facebook Share
- 📈 Facebook Share is three times more popular than Facebook Like.
- 🌎 Facebook Share is more popular in the United States, Japan, and Germany.
- 🌍 Facebook Like is more popular in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Armenia.
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 Share button lets people add a personalized message to links before sharing on their timeline, in groups, or to their friends via a Facebook Message.
Headquarters
Menlo Park, California, United States
Menlo Park, California, United States
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Facebook Share social widget tool is 3 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 Share is more popular in the United States, Japan, and Germany, while Facebook Like is more popular in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Armenia.
United States
Japan
Germany
United Kingdom
France
Italy
Spain
Canada
Netherlands
Poland
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 the United States in the Social Widgets category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Social Widgets category.
- 🥇 Most popular in France in the Social Widgets category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Italy in the Social Widgets category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Canada in the Social Widgets category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Facebook Share is more popular than Facebook Like in all market segments.
Business
Blogs/Wiki
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Entertainment
Online Shopping
Travel
General News
Internet Services
Sports
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.