⚡ Legacy Technologies in Egypt

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.

Egypt is a North African country with a population of over 112 million people.

According to our data, legacy technologies are detected on 39.1% of websites from Egypt.

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

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Owl Carousel with an impressive share of 43.3%, followed by Magnific Popup with 26.5% and Google URL Shortener with 16.2%.

Owl Carousel 43.3%
Magnific Popup 26.5%
Google URL Shortener 16.2%
Moment.js 7.3%
jQuery Cookie 7%
jQuery Mousewheel 5.8%
iLightBox 5.2%
Messenger Customer Chat 4.2%
AddThis 3.3%
Adobe Flash 3.1%
Skrollr 2.9%
Facebook Like 1.7%
AngularJS 1.5%
Google Sign-In 1.3%
jQuery LazyLoad 1.3%

🚀 Highlights

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

4. Moment.js ^(-2)
7. iLightBox ^(-4)
8. Messenger Customer Chat ^(-9)
11. Skrollr ^(-3)
13. AngularJS ^(-6)
14. Google Sign-In ^(-26)
15. jQuery LazyLoad ^(-1)
17. Alexa ^(-8)
18. Facebook Like Box ^(-5)
19. Google Funding Choices ^(-3)

✨ Best Legacy Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 51 legacy technologies used on sites from Egypt, 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	43.3%
2	Magnific Popup A responsive lightbox and dialog plugin for jQuery and Zepto.js. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	26.5%
3	Google URL Shortener Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated link service from Google. Legacy	16.2%
4	Moment.js San Francisco, California, United States An open-source JavaScript library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	7.3%
5	jQuery Cookie A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	7%
6	jQuery Mousewheel A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	5.8%
7	iLightBox A commercial jQuery lightbox plugin. $16+Legacy	5.2%
8	Messenger Customer Chat Menlo Park, California, United States The website chat widget from Meta that was retired in May 2024. Legacy	4.2%
9	AddThis Austin, Texas, United States A social bookmarking service that discontinued its services on May 31, 2023. FreeLegacy	3.3%
10	Adobe Flash San Jose, California, United States A discontinued multimedia software platform for creating animations and interactive apps. Legacy	3.1%
11	Skrollr Standalone parallax scrolling JavaScript library for mobile (Android, iOS) and desktop in about 12k minified. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2.9%
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	1.7%
13	AngularJS Mountain View, California, United States A discontinued open-source web framework from Google that has been superseded by Angular. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.5%
14	Google Sign-In Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated JavaScript library that has been superseded by Google Identity services for Web. FreeLegacy	1.3%
15	jQuery LazyLoad A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.3%
16	ASP Redmond, Washington, United States A server-side scripting language and dynamic web page engine. FreeLegacy	1.2%
17	Alexa Seattle, Washington, United States A web traffic analysis service from Amazon that was discontinued in 2022. Legacy	1.1%
18	Facebook Like Box Menlo Park, California, United States A plugin that allowed admins to promote their Facebook Pages and embed a simple feed of content from a Page into other sites. Legacy	1%
19	Google Funding Choices Mountain View, California, United States A messaging tool for GDPR and CCPA compliance and ad blocking recovery. Legacy	1%
20	Turbolinks Chicago, Illinois, United States A JavaScript library that allows web apps to behave like a single page application. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1%
21	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	0.9%
22	Picturefill A responsive image polyfill for <picture>, srcset, sizes, and more. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.9%
23	Critters San Francisco, California, United States A deprecated Webpack plugin that inlines your app's critical CSS and lazily loads the rest. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.8%
24	YUI New York, United States A legacy, open-source JavaScript and CSS library for building interactive web applications with a focus on modular architecture and cross-browser consistency. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.7%
25	CentOS Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A discontinued open-source Linux distribution compatible with RHEL. Legacy	0.7%

👉 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 2,926 websites from Egypt.
We currently track the presence of 124 legacy technologies across the web.
Of these, 51 were detected on websites from Egypt.
Statistics were last calculated on August 4, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.