⚡ Legacy Technologies in Spain

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.

Spain is a Southern European country with a population of around 48 million people.

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

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Magnific Popup with a share of 28%, followed by jQuery Mousewheel with 20.4% and Google URL Shortener with 16.4%.

Magnific Popup 28%
jQuery Mousewheel 20.4%
Google URL Shortener 16.4%
jQuery Cookie 13.5%
Skrollr 6%
iLightBox 5.2%
Adobe Flash 4.2%
AddThis 3.6%
ASP 2.7%
Picturefill 2.4%
Google Funding Choices 2.3%
CentOS 1.7%
jQuery LazyLoad 1.5%
SWFObject 1.4%
Facebook Like Box 1.3%

🚀 Highlights

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

2. jQuery Mousewheel ^(-2)
5. Skrollr ^(-6)
6. iLightBox ^(-3)
10. Picturefill ^(-2)
11. Google Funding Choices ^(-8)
14. SWFObject ^(-4)
15. Facebook Like Box ^(-5)
18. Closure Library ^(-7)
19. qTranslate-X ^(-18)
20. Google Optimize ^(-1)

✨ Best Legacy Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 84 legacy technologies used on sites from Spain, 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	28%
2	jQuery Mousewheel A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	20.4%
3	Google URL Shortener Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated link service from Google. Legacy	16.4%
4	jQuery Cookie A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	13.5%
5	Skrollr Standalone parallax scrolling JavaScript library for mobile (Android, iOS) and desktop in about 12k minified. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	6%
6	iLightBox A commercial jQuery lightbox plugin. $16+Legacy	5.2%
7	Adobe Flash San Jose, California, United States A discontinued multimedia software platform for creating animations and interactive apps. Legacy	4.2%
8	AddThis Austin, Texas, United States A social bookmarking service that discontinued its services on May 31, 2023. FreeLegacy	3.6%
9	ASP Redmond, Washington, United States A server-side scripting language and dynamic web page engine. FreeLegacy	2.7%
10	Picturefill A responsive image polyfill for , srcset, sizes, and more. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2.4%
11	Google Funding Choices Mountain View, California, United States A messaging tool for GDPR and CCPA compliance and ad blocking recovery. Legacy	2.3%
12	CentOS Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A discontinued open-source Linux distribution compatible with RHEL. Legacy	1.7%
13	jQuery LazyLoad A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.5%
14	SWFObject A deprecated framework for detecting the Adobe Flash Player plugin and embedding Flash files. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.4%
15	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	1.3%
16	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	1.1%
17	Polymer A library for creating encapsulated, reusable web components. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1%
18	Closure Library Mountain View, California, United States A low-level JavaScript library designed for building complex and scalable web applications. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1%
19	qTranslate-X A discontinued WordPress plugin used for managing dynamic multilingual content on websites. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	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	0.9%
21	AngularJS Mountain View, California, United States A discontinued open-source web framework from Google that has been superseded by Angular. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.8%
22	Alexa Seattle, Washington, United States A web traffic analysis service from Amazon that was discontinued in 2022. Legacy	0.7%
23	Shadowbox A lightbox library for photos and videos, last released in 2014. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.7%
24	Lightbox for Bootstrap A lightbox module for Bootstrap that supports images, YouTube videos and galleries - built around Bootstrap's Modal plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.6%
25	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	0.6%

👉 See Also

🌎 Legacy in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 84,980 websites from Spain.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.