🆚 Facebook SDK vs. Lightbox

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Facebook SDK is three times more popular than Lightbox.
🌎 Facebook SDK is more popular in the United States, Japan, and the United Kingdom.
🌍 Lightbox is more popular in Germany, Austria, and Iran.

Facebook SDK

Lightbox

Type

JavaScript library

About

Facebook SDK is a library that provides client-side tools for Social Plugins, Facebook Login, and Graph API calls.

It enables loading Social Plugins such as Like, Share, or Comments buttons, initiating Facebook Login with configurable permissions, and opening dialogs for sharing, fetching and updating data via Graph API endpoints.

The original lightbox library used to overlay images on top of the current page.

Headquarters

Menlo Park, California, United States

San Francisco, California, United States

Website

developers.facebook.com

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Pricing

Free ✔️

Free ✔️Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Facebook SDK JavaScript library is 2.8 times more popular than Lightbox.

Total websites

Market share

JavaScript Libraries

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Facebook SDK is more popular in the United States, Japan, and the United Kingdom, while Lightbox is more popular in Germany, Austria, and Iran.

United States

Japan

United Kingdom

Germany

Italy

Brazil

Australia

France

Poland

Spain

Awards

🥈 Second most popular in Poland in the JavaScript Libraries category.
🥈 Second most popular in Vietnam in the JavaScript Libraries category.
🥈 Second most popular in Ukraine in the JavaScript Libraries category.
🥈 Second most popular in the Czech Republic in the JavaScript Libraries category.
🥈 Second most popular in Hungary in the JavaScript Libraries category.

🥈 Second most popular in the Faroe Islands in the JavaScript Libraries category.
⭐ 5th most popular in the Czech Republic in the JavaScript Libraries category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Austria in the JavaScript Libraries category.
⭐ 6th most popular in Germany in the JavaScript Libraries category.
⭐ 9th most popular in Poland in the JavaScript Libraries category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Facebook SDK is more popular among sites focused on business, online shopping, and education and reference, while Lightbox is more commonly used on travel, art, culture and heritage, and games sites.

Business

Online Shopping

Education/Reference

Marketing/Merchandising

Blogs/Wiki

Entertainment

Internet Services

General News

Sports

Health