🆚 Google URL Shortener vs. Google +1 Button
- 📈 Google URL Shortener is much more popular than Google +1 Button.
- 🌍 Google URL Shortener is more popular in all countries.
Statistics based on 3.6M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Google URL ShortenerType
Legacy technology
Social sharing tool
About
Google URL Shortener, also known as goo.gl, is a deprecated link service from Google.
It generated shortened URLs, provided click analytics, and created QR codes for sharing links.
The sharing button code for the discontinued Google +1 service.
Headquarters
Mountain View, California, United States
Mountain View, California, United States
Website
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Google URL Shortener legacy technology is 25 times more popular than Google +1 Button.
Total websites
Market share
Legacy
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Google URL Shortener is more popular than Google +1 Button in all countries.
United States
Japan
Spain
Germany
Australia
India
United Kingdom
Italy
Brazil
Canada
Awards
- 🥈 Second most popular in Japan in the Legacy category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Taiwan in the Legacy category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Paraguay in the Legacy category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the U.S. Virgin Islands in the Legacy category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in the United States in the Legacy category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Japan in the Social Sharing category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in the Czech Republic in the Social Sharing category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Ukraine in the Social Sharing category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Poland in the Social Sharing category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Vietnam in the Social Sharing category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Google URL Shortener is more popular than Google +1 Button in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Online Shopping
Health
Travel
Internet Services
Real Estate
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Blogs/Wiki
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 3,603,958 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.