🆚 Facebook Like vs. Google +1 Button
Facebook Like is much more popular than Google +1 Button.- Facebook Like is more popular in the United States, Japan, and France.
Google +1 Button is more popular in Iran and Afghanistan.
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 sharing button code for the discontinued Google +1 service.
Headquarters
Menlo Park, California, United States
Mountain View, California, United States
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Facebook Like social widget tool is 9 times more popular than Google +1 Button.
Total websites
Market share
Social Widgets
Legacy
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Facebook Like is more popular in the United States, Japan, and France, while Google +1 Button is more popular in Iran and Afghanistan.
United States
Japan
France
United Kingdom
Poland
Italy
Germany
Spain
Czechia
Netherlands
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.
- ⭐ 10th most popular in Ukraine in the Social Widgets category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in Vietnam in the Social Widgets category.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in Japan in the Social Widgets category.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in Russia in the Social Widgets category.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in Poland in the Social Widgets category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Facebook Like is more popular than Google +1 Button in all market segments.
Blogs/Wiki
Marketing/Merchandising
Entertainment
Online Shopping
Business
Education/Reference
Internet Services
General News
Games
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 4,046,631 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.