🆚 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.
Statistics based on 3.6M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Social sharing tool
Social sharing 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
Social Sharing › Rank #5
Social Sharing › Rank #12
Widgets › Rank #6
Widgets › Rank #20
Legacy › Rank #8
Legacy › Rank #32
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Facebook Like social sharing tool is 9 times more popular than Google +1 Button.
Total websites
Market share
Social Sharing
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.
United States
Japan
France
United Kingdom
Germany
Italy
Poland
Spain
Czech Republic
Netherlands
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.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Poland in the Widgets category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Japan in the Social Sharing category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in the Czech Republic in the Social Sharing category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Ukraine in the Social Sharing category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Poland in the Social Sharing category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Vietnam in the Social Sharing 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
Business
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Travel
Internet Services
General News
Games
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
See also
🗃️ 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 3,603,958 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.

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