🆚 Facebook Like vs. Pocket Button
- 📈 Facebook Like is much more popular than Pocket Button.
- 🌍 Facebook Like is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ Pocket Button is particularly popular in Japan.
Statistics based on 3.6M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Pocket ButtonType
Social widget tool
Legacy technology
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 Pocket Button allowed users to save content to Pocket, a social bookmarking service that shut down in 2025.
Headquarters
Menlo Park, California, United States
Mountain View, California, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Facebook Like social widget tool is 39 times more popular than Pocket 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 than Pocket Button in all countries.
United States
Japan
France
Germany
United Kingdom
Poland
Italy
Spain
Czech Republic
Netherlands
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in the Czech Republic in the Social Widgets category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Hungary in the Social Widgets category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Slovakia in the Social Widgets category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Poland in the Social Widgets category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Japan in the Social Widgets category.
- 🔥 16th most popular in Japan in the Legacy category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Facebook Like is more popular than Pocket Button in all market segments.
Blogs/Wiki
Marketing/Merchandising
Entertainment
Online Shopping
Business
Education/Reference
Internet Services
General News
Sports
Games
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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- 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 3,655,631 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.