🆚 Facebook SDK vs. Lightbox
- 📈 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.
Statistics based on 3.4M+ analyzed websites. About this data
LightboxType
JavaScript library
JavaScript library
About
Facebook SDK is a library that provides client-side tools for Social Plugins, 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
Pricing
Free ✔️
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #3
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #20
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
France
Australia
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
Health
Sports
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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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 3,431,368 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.