⚡ Legacy Technologies in Ethiopia

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.

Ethiopia is an East African country with a population of over 127 million people.

According to our data, legacy technologies are detected on 36.9% of websites from Ethiopia.

Statistics based on 325 analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Owl Carousel with an impressive share of 48.3%, followed by Magnific Popup with 36.7% and Google URL Shortener with 12.5%.

Owl Carousel 48.3%
Magnific Popup 36.7%
Google URL Shortener 12.5%
Moment.js 10.8%
jQuery Cookie 10%
Skrollr 4.2%
jQuery Mousewheel 4.2%
iLightBox 2.5%
AddThis 2.5%
jQuery LazyLoad 2.5%
Adobe Flash 2.5%
Critters 1.7%
J2Store 1.7%
Google Funding Choices 1.7%
Facebook Like Box 0.8%

🚀 Highlights

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

4. Moment.js ^(-2)
6. Skrollr ^(-6)
8. iLightBox ^(-3)
9. AddThis ^(-1)
10. jQuery LazyLoad ^(-4)
12. Critters ^(-22)
13. J2Store ^(-59)
14. Google Funding Choices ^(-7)
15. Facebook Like Box ^(-10)
18. SWFObject ^(-4)

✨ Best Legacy Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 28 legacy technologies used on sites from Ethiopia, 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	48.3%
2	Magnific Popup Kyiv, Ukraine A responsive lightbox and dialog plugin for jQuery and Zepto.js. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	36.7%
3	Google URL Shortener Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated link service from Google. Legacy	12.5%
4	Moment.js San Francisco, California, United States An open-source JavaScript library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	10.8%
5	jQuery Cookie Germany A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	10%
6	Skrollr Standalone parallax scrolling JavaScript library for mobile (Android, iOS) and desktop in about 12k minified. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	4.2%
7	jQuery Mousewheel San Francisco, California, United States A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support with delta normalization. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	4.2%
8	iLightBox A commercial jQuery lightbox plugin. $16+Legacy	2.5%
9	AddThis Austin, Texas, United States A social bookmarking service that discontinued its services on May 31, 2023. FreeLegacy	2.5%
10	jQuery LazyLoad Finland A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2.5%
11	Adobe Flash San Jose, California, United States A discontinued multimedia software platform for creating animations and interactive apps. Legacy	2.5%
12	Critters San Francisco, California, United States A deprecated Webpack plugin that inlines your app's critical CSS and lazily loads the rest. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.7%
13	J2Store Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India An open-source e-commerce extension for Joomla that is no longer maintained. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.7%
14	Google Funding Choices Mountain View, California, United States A messaging tool for GDPR and CCPA compliance and ad blocking recovery. Legacy	1.7%
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	0.8%
16	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	0.8%
17	Picturefill Boston, Massachusetts, United States A responsive image polyfill for <picture>, srcset, sizes, and more. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.8%
18	SWFObject A deprecated framework for detecting the Adobe Flash Player plugin and embedding Flash files. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.8%
19	Shadowbox A lightbox library for photos and videos, last released in 2014. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.8%
20	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	0.8%
21	MSHTML Redmond, Washington, United States An editor based on the MSHTML component of the discontinued Internet Explorer browser. Legacy	0.8%
22	iScroll A high-performance JavaScript library for smooth scrolling. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.8%
23	RawGit Portland, Oregon, United States A public CDN for serving files from raw.githubusercontent.com with the correct content types. FreeLegacy	0.8%
24	Closure Library Mountain View, California, United States A low-level JavaScript library designed for building complex and scalable web applications. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.8%
25	Stacktable.js jQuery plugin for stacking tables on small screens. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.8%

👉 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 325 websites from Ethiopia.
We currently track the presence of 130 legacy technologies across the web.
Of these, 28 were detected on websites from Ethiopia.
Statistics were last calculated on September 18, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.