⚡ 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 19% 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 Magnific Popup with an impressive share of 33.3%, followed by Google URL Shortener with 15.1% and jQuery Mousewheel with 14.5%.

Magnific Popup 33.3%
Google URL Shortener 15.1%
jQuery Mousewheel 14.5%
jQuery Cookie 11.8%
AddThis 5.2%
Polymer 5.2%
Messenger Customer Chat 5%
Skrollr 4.5%
Adobe Flash 4.3%
iLightBox 3.1%
Skype 2.3%
Picturefill 2.1%
SWFObject 1.7%
Google Optimize 1.6%
CentOS 1.6%

🚀 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.

2. Google URL Shortener ^(-1)
3. jQuery Mousewheel ^(-1)
5. AddThis ^(-1)
6. Polymer ^(-3)
7. Messenger Customer Chat ^(-7)
8. Skrollr ^(-3)
11. Skype ^(-4)
13. SWFObject ^(-5)
14. Google Optimize ^(-7)
18. iScroll ^(-8)

✨ Best Legacy Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 50 legacy technologies used on sites from Cyprus, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Magnific Popup A responsive lightbox and dialog plugin for jQuery and Zepto. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	33.3%
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	14.5%
4	jQuery Cookie A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	11.8%
5	AddThis Austin, Texas, United States A social bookmarking service that discontinued its services on May 31, 2023. FreeLegacy	5.2%
6	Polymer A library for creating encapsulated, reusable web components. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	5.2%
7	Messenger Customer Chat Menlo Park, California, United States The website chat widget from Meta that was retired in May 2024. Legacy	5%
8	Skrollr Standalone parallax scrolling JavaScript library for mobile (Android, iOS) and desktop in about 12k minified. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	4.5%
9	Adobe Flash San Jose, California, United States A discontinued multimedia software platform for creating animations and interactive apps. Legacy	4.3%
10	iLightBox A commercial jQuery lightbox plugin. $16+Legacy	3.1%
11	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	2.3%
12	Picturefill A responsive image polyfill for , srcset, sizes, and more. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2.1%
13	SWFObject A deprecated framework for detecting the Adobe Flash Player plugin and embedding Flash files. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.7%
14	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	1.6%
15	CentOS Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A discontinued open-source Linux distribution compatible with RHEL. Legacy	1.6%
16	jQuery LazyLoad A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.6%
17	AngularJS Mountain View, California, United States A discontinued open-source web framework from Google that has been superseded by Angular. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.2%
18	iScroll A high-performance JavaScript library for smooth scrolling. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1%
19	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%
20	Google Sign-In Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated JavaScript library that has been superseded by Google Identity services for Web. FreeLegacy	1%
21	Alexa Seattle, Washington, United States A web traffic analysis service from Amazon that was discontinued in 2022. Legacy	0.8%
22	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	0.8%
23	qTranslate-X A discontinued WordPress plugin used for managing dynamic multilingual content on websites. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.8%
24	Cloudflare Apps San Francisco, California, United States A deprecated service that allowed the installation of third-party scripts/plugins on a website with a single click. Legacy	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 2,718 websites from Cyprus.
We currently track the presence of 117 legacy technologies across the web.
Of these, 50 were detected on websites from Cyprus.
Statistics were last calculated on May 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.