🆚 Google URL Shortener vs. Pocket Button
- 📈 Google URL Shortener is much more popular than Pocket Button.
- 🌍 Google URL Shortener is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ Pocket Button is particularly popular in Japan.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Google URL Shortener
Pocket ButtonType
Legacy technology
Legacy technology
About
Google URL Shortener is a deprecated link service from Google.
The Pocket Button allowed users to save content to Pocket, a social bookmarking service that shut down in 2025.
Headquarters
Mountain View, California, United States
Mountain View, California, United States
Website
Pricing
Free ✔️
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Google URL Shortener legacy technology is 110 times more popular than Pocket 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 Pocket Button in all countries.
United States
Japan
Spain
Australia
Germany
India
Italy
Brazil
United Kingdom
Canada
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in Taiwan in the Legacy category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Paraguay in the Legacy category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the U.S. Virgin Islands in the Legacy category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United States in the Legacy category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Japan in the Legacy category.
- 🔥 14th most popular in Japan in the Legacy category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Google URL Shortener is more popular than Pocket Button in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Online Shopping
Health
Travel
Internet Services
Real Estate
Sports
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
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 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.