⚡ Legacy Technologies in Cyprus

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.

Cyprus is a Mediterranean island country with a population of over 1.3 million people.

According to our data, legacy technologies are detected on 24.5% of websites from Cyprus.

Statistics based on 2K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Owl Carousel with an impressive share of 35.4%, followed by Magnific Popup with 25.5% and Google URL Shortener with 13.9%.

Owl Carousel 35.4%
Magnific Popup 25.5%
Google URL Shortener 13.9%
jQuery Mousewheel 10.8%
jQuery Cookie 9.4%
Moment.js 5.1%
Messenger Customer Chat 4.4%
AddThis 4.1%
Polymer 3.6%
Skrollr 3.4%
Adobe Flash 3%
Facebook Like 2.6%
iLightBox 2.3%
Skype 1.6%
Picturefill 1.4%

🚀 Highlights

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

4. jQuery Mousewheel ^(-1)
7. Messenger Customer Chat ^(-9)
8. AddThis ^(-2)
9. Polymer ^(-3)
10. Skrollr ^(-3)
14. Skype ^(-5)
18. SWFObject ^(-3)
19. Microsoft Invest ^(-4)
20. Google Optimize ^(-5)
23. Google Sign-In ^(-18)

✨ Best Legacy Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 56 legacy technologies used on sites from Cyprus, 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	35.4%
2	Magnific Popup Kyiv, Ukraine A responsive lightbox and dialog plugin for jQuery and Zepto.js. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	25.5%
3	Google URL Shortener Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated link service from Google. Legacy	13.9%
4	jQuery Mousewheel San Francisco, California, United States A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support with delta normalization. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	10.8%
5	jQuery Cookie Germany A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	9.4%
6	Moment.js San Francisco, California, United States An open-source JavaScript library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	5.1%
7	Messenger Customer Chat Menlo Park, California, United States The website chat widget from Meta that was retired in May 2024. Legacy	4.4%
8	AddThis Austin, Texas, United States A social bookmarking service that discontinued its services on May 31, 2023. FreeLegacy	4.1%
9	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	3.6%
10	Skrollr Standalone parallax scrolling JavaScript library for mobile (Android, iOS) and desktop in about 12k minified. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	3.4%
11	Adobe Flash San Jose, California, United States A discontinued multimedia software platform for creating animations and interactive apps. Legacy	3%
12	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	2.6%
13	iLightBox A commercial jQuery lightbox plugin. $16+Legacy	2.3%
14	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	1.6%
15	Picturefill Boston, Massachusetts, United States A responsive image polyfill for <picture>, srcset, sizes, and more. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.4%
16	CentOS Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A discontinued open-source Linux distribution compatible with RHEL. Legacy	1.4%
17	jQuery LazyLoad Finland A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.3%
18	SWFObject A deprecated framework for detecting the Adobe Flash Player plugin and embedding Flash files. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.1%
19	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	1%
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	1%
21	AngularJS Mountain View, California, United States A discontinued open-source web framework from Google that has been superseded by Angular. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.9%
22	Google Funding Choices Mountain View, California, United States A messaging tool for GDPR and CCPA compliance and ad blocking recovery. Legacy	0.9%
23	Google Sign-In Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated JavaScript library that has been superseded by Google Identity services for Web. FreeLegacy	0.7%
24	Sapper An open-source Svelte framework for server-rendered and client-hydrated web applications that has been deprecated in favor of its successor, SvelteKit. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.6%
25	ASP Redmond, Washington, United States A server-side scripting language and dynamic web page engine. FreeLegacy	0.6%

👉 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 2,867 websites from Cyprus.
We currently track the presence of 126 legacy technologies across the web.
Of these, 56 were detected on websites from Cyprus.
Statistics were last calculated on August 13, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.