⚡ Legacy Technologies in the United Arab Emirates

Legacy technologies are platforms and tools that have been discontinued or shut down and no longer operate. Some are completely defunct, while others remain functional but unsupported.

The United Arab Emirates is a Western Asian country with a population of over 10 million people.

According to our data, legacy technologies are detected on 35.3% of websites from the United Arab Emirates.

Statistics based on 9K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top legacy technologies in the United Arab Emirates in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Owl Carousel with an impressive share of 44.9%, followed by Magnific Popup with 28.5% and Google URL Shortener with 19.7%.

Owl Carousel 44.9%
Magnific Popup 28.5%
Google URL Shortener 19.7%
jQuery Cookie 8.4%
Moment.js 6.1%
jQuery Mousewheel 5.7%
Polymer 2.9%
Skrollr 2.5%
AddThis 2.1%
iLightBox 1.6%
AngularJS 1.6%
Picturefill 1.4%
Adobe Flash 1.3%
Messenger Customer Chat 1.2%
jQuery LazyLoad 1.1%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top technologies that are more popular in the United Arab Emirates than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

5. Moment.js ^(-1)
7. Polymer ^(-5)
8. Skrollr ^(-5)
9. AddThis ^(-1)
10. iLightBox ^(-1)
11. AngularJS ^(-7)
12. Picturefill ^(-3)
14. Messenger Customer Chat ^(-2)
15. jQuery LazyLoad ^(-2)
17. Skype ^(-2)

✨ Best Legacy Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 62 legacy technologies used on sites from the United Arab Emirates, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Owl Carousel Germany A deprecated open-source jQuery plugin for creating responsive, touch-enabled, and accessible carousel sliders. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	44.9%
2	Magnific Popup Kyiv, Ukraine A responsive lightbox and dialog plugin for jQuery and Zepto.js. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	28.5%
3	Google URL Shortener Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated link service from Google. Legacy	19.7%
4	jQuery Cookie Germany A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	8.4%
5	Moment.js San Francisco, California, United States An open-source JavaScript library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	6.1%
6	jQuery Mousewheel San Francisco, California, United States A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support with delta normalization. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	5.7%
7	Polymer Mountain View, California, United States A legacy open-source JavaScript library created by Google for building components based on Web Components standards. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2.9%
8	Skrollr Standalone parallax scrolling JavaScript library for mobile (Android, iOS) and desktop in about 12k minified. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2.5%
9	AddThis Austin, Texas, United States A social bookmarking service that discontinued its services on May 31, 2023. FreeLegacy	2.1%
10	iLightBox A commercial jQuery lightbox plugin. $16+Legacy	1.6%
11	AngularJS Mountain View, California, United States A discontinued open-source web framework from Google that has been superseded by Angular. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.6%
12	Picturefill Boston, Massachusetts, United States A responsive image polyfill for <picture>, srcset, sizes, and more. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.4%
13	Adobe Flash San Jose, California, United States A discontinued multimedia software platform for creating animations and interactive apps. Legacy	1.3%
14	Messenger Customer Chat Menlo Park, California, United States The website chat widget from Meta that was retired in May 2024. Legacy	1.2%
15	jQuery LazyLoad Finland A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.1%
16	Facebook Like Menlo Park, California, United States A social plugin that allowed websites to embed a button for visitors to like and share web pages on Facebook. Legacy	1%
17	Skype Redmond, Washington, United States A communications platform for voice and video calls and sending instant messages that was retired on May 5, 2025 in favor of Microsoft Teams. FreeLegacy	0.8%
18	ASP Redmond, Washington, United States A server-side scripting language and dynamic web page engine. FreeLegacy	0.6%
19	Google Sign-In Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated JavaScript library that has been superseded by Google Identity services for Web. FreeLegacy	0.6%
20	Google Optimize Mountain View, California, United States A free website optimization tool integrated with Google Ads that enabled A/B, multivariate, and redirect landing page testing. Legacy	0.6%
21	Turbolinks Chicago, Illinois, United States A JavaScript library that allows web apps to behave like a single page application. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.6%
22	Microsoft Invest Redmond, Washington, United States A demand-side ad management platform created after Microsoft's acquisition of Xandr to facilitate programmatic media buying. Legacy	0.5%
23	RawGit Portland, Oregon, United States A public CDN for serving files from raw.githubusercontent.com with the correct content types. FreeLegacy	0.5%
24	Google Funding Choices Mountain View, California, United States A messaging tool for GDPR and CCPA compliance and ad blocking recovery. Legacy	0.5%
25	CentOS Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A discontinued open-source Linux distribution compatible with RHEL. Legacy	0.5%

👉 See Also

🌎 Legacy in other countries

🗃️ 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 9,305 websites from the United Arab Emirates.
We currently track the presence of 126 legacy technologies across the web.
Of these, 62 were detected on websites from the United Arab Emirates.
Statistics were last calculated on August 13, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.