🆚 Facebook Like vs. ShareThis
- 📈 Facebook Like is slightly more popular than ShareThis.
- 🌍 Facebook Like is more popular in Japan, Italy, and France.
- 🌎 ShareThis is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Spain.
Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data
ShareThisType
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.
ShareThis is a social bookmarking service that provides free website widgets such share, follow and reaction buttons. It also collects and sells data on user behavior.
Headquarters
Menlo Park, California, United States
Palo Alto, California, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Facebook Like social widget tool is 1.1 times more popular than ShareThis.
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 Japan, Italy, and France, while ShareThis is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Spain.
United States
Japan
United Kingdom
Italy
France
Spain
Poland
Canada
Germany
Netherlands
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.
- 🥇 Most popular in Nepal in the Social Widgets category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Jordan in the Social Widgets category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Indonesia in the Social Widgets category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Turkey in the Social Widgets category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Bangladesh 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 online shopping, entertainment, and Internet services, while ShareThis is more commonly used on business, marketing and merchandising, and blogs and wiki sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Online Shopping
Entertainment
Education/Reference
General News
Internet Services
Sports
Health
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
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 3,827,731 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.