🆚 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 Czechia, Hungary, and Armenia.
Statistics based on 4M+ 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 Czechia, Hungary, and Armenia.
United States
Japan
Germany
United Kingdom
France
Italy
Spain
Canada
Netherlands
India
Awards
- 🥈 Second most popular in Czechia 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 among sites focused on business, blogs and wiki, and marketing and merchandising, while Facebook Like is more commonly used on games sites.
Business
Blogs/Wiki
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Entertainment
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 4,046,631 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.