⚡ Legacy Technologies in Switzerland

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.

Switzerland is a Central European country with a population of over 8.8 million people.

According to our data, legacy technologies are detected on 17% of websites from Switzerland.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Magnific Popup with a share of 25.8%, followed by Google URL Shortener with 15.1% and jQuery Mousewheel with 13.2%.

Magnific Popup 25.8%
Google URL Shortener 15.1%
jQuery Mousewheel 13.2%
jQuery Cookie 9.9%
Polymer 6.4%
Picturefill 4.4%
Adobe Flash 4.4%
iLightBox 3.7%
Skrollr 3.4%
AddThis 3.1%
ASP 2.4%
Google Webmaster Tools 1.9%
AngularJS 1.8%
jQuery LazyLoad 1.6%
Other 2.9%

🚀 Highlights

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

2. Google URL Shortener ^(-1)
3. jQuery Mousewheel ^(-1)
5. Polymer ^(-3)
6. Picturefill ^(-6)
8. iLightBox ^(-1)
9. Skrollr ^(-2)
12. Google Webmaster Tools ^(-4)
13. AngularJS ^(-4)
15. SWFObject ^(-3)
17. Turbolinks ^(-7)

✨ Best Legacy Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 75 legacy technologies used on sites from Switzerland, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Magnific Popup A responsive lightbox and dialog plugin for jQuery and Zepto.js. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	25.8%
2	Google URL Shortener Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated link service from Google. Legacy	15.1%
3	jQuery Mousewheel A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	13.2%
4	jQuery Cookie A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	9.9%
5	Polymer A library for creating encapsulated, reusable web components. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	6.4%
6	Picturefill A responsive image polyfill for , srcset, sizes, and more. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	4.4%
7	Adobe Flash San Jose, California, United States A discontinued multimedia software platform for creating animations and interactive apps. Legacy	4.4%
8	iLightBox A commercial jQuery lightbox plugin. $16+Legacy	3.7%
9	Skrollr Standalone parallax scrolling JavaScript library for mobile (Android, iOS) and desktop in about 12k minified. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	3.4%
10	AddThis Austin, Texas, United States A social bookmarking service that discontinued its services on May 31, 2023. FreeLegacy	3.1%
11	ASP Redmond, Washington, United States A server-side scripting language and dynamic web page engine. FreeLegacy	2.4%
12	Google Webmaster Tools Mountain View, California, United States The old Google Webmaster Tools, detected by the meta name "verify-v1", which have been deprecated in favor of Google Search Console. FreeLegacy	1.9%
13	AngularJS Mountain View, California, United States A discontinued open-source web framework from Google that has been superseded by Angular. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.8%
14	jQuery LazyLoad A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.6%
15	SWFObject A deprecated framework for detecting the Adobe Flash Player plugin and embedding Flash files. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.6%
16	CentOS Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A discontinued open-source Linux distribution compatible with RHEL. Legacy	1.6%
17	Turbolinks Chicago, Illinois, United States A JavaScript library that allows web apps to behave like a single page application. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.3%
18	Microsoft FrontPage Redmond, Washington, United States A WYSIWYG HTML editor and website administration tool that was part of Microsoft Office until it was discontinued in 2003. $149Legacy	1.2%
19	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	1.2%
20	Oribi Mountain View, California, United States An all-in-one marketing analytics solution acquired by LinkedIn. Legacy	1.2%
21	Critters San Francisco, California, United States A deprecated Webpack plugin that inlines your app's critical CSS and lazily loads the rest. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.9%
22	Shadowbox A lightbox library for photos and videos, last released in 2014. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.9%
23	Lightbox for Bootstrap A lightbox module for Bootstrap that supports images, YouTube videos and galleries - built around Bootstrap's Modal plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.7%
24	qTranslate-X A discontinued WordPress plugin used for managing dynamic multilingual content on websites. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.6%
25	Prefix-free A legacy script that adds browser prefixes to CSS code when needed for old browsers. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.6%

👉 See Also

🌎 Legacy in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 40,134 websites from Switzerland.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.