🆚 Google +1 Button vs. Pocket Button
- 📈 Google +1 Button is four times more popular than Pocket Button.
- 🌎 Google +1 Button is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Russia.
- 🌍 Pocket Button is more popular in Japan.
Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Google +1 Button
Pocket ButtonType
Social widget tool
Legacy technology
About
The sharing button code for the discontinued Google +1 service.
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
Pricing
Free ✔️
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Google +1 Button social widget tool is 4 times more popular than Pocket Button.
Total websites
Market share
Social Widgets
Legacy
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Google +1 Button is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Russia, while Pocket Button is more popular in Japan.
Japan
United States
United Kingdom
Russia
Italy
France
Germany
Spain
Canada
Ukraine
Awards
- ⭐ 10th most popular in Ukraine in the Social Widgets category.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in Japan in the Social Widgets category.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in Russia in the Social Widgets category.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in Poland in the Social Widgets category.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in the Czech Republic in the Social Widgets category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in Japan in the Social Widgets category.
- 🔥 15th most popular in Japan in the Legacy category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Google +1 Button is more popular than Pocket Button in all market segments.
Blogs/Wiki
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Internet Services
Entertainment
Education/Reference
Online Shopping
Software/Hardware
Travel
Games
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Mozilla 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.