🆚 Facebook Like vs. LinkedIn Share
- 📈 Facebook Like is much more popular than LinkedIn Share.
- 🌎 Facebook Like is more popular in the United States, Japan, and Germany.
- 🌍 LinkedIn Share is more popular in Qatar, Guam, and the Turks and Caicos Islands.
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 LinkedIn Share Plugin allows users to easily share content to their 
LinkedIn network.
Headquarters
Menlo Park, California, United States
Mountain View, California, United States
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Facebook Like social widget tool is 6 times more popular than LinkedIn Share.
Total websites
Market share
Social Widgets
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Facebook Like is more popular in the United States, Japan, and Germany, while LinkedIn Share is more popular in Qatar, Guam, and the Turks and Caicos Islands.
United States
Japan
Germany
United Kingdom
France
Italy
Poland
Spain
Netherlands
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.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Germany in the Social Widgets category.
- ⭐ 10th most popular in India in the Social Widgets category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in the Netherlands in the Social Widgets category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in Austria in the Social Widgets category.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in Turkey in the Social Widgets category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Facebook Like is more popular among sites focused on blogs and wiki, marketing and merchandising, and business, while LinkedIn Share is more commonly used on forum, bulletin boards sites.
Blogs/Wiki
Marketing/Merchandising
Business
Entertainment
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Travel
Internet Services
General News
Forum/Bulletin Boards
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.