⚡ 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 29.1% of websites from Ethiopia.

Statistics based on 230 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 Magnific Popup, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 53.7% share.
It is followed by Google URL Shortener with 16.4% and jQuery Cookie with 13.4%.

🚀 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.

2. Google URL Shortener ^(-1)
4. Skrollr ^(-7)
5. jQuery LazyLoad ^(-8)
7. iLightBox ^(-1)
8. Closure Library ^(-17)
9. Google Funding Choices ^(-10)
11. J2Store ^(-53)
12. Facebook Like Box ^(-8)
14. SWFObject ^(-4)
15. Shadowbox ^(-17)

✨ Best Legacy Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of 21 legacy technologies used on sites from Ethiopia, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Magnific Popup A responsive lightbox and dialog plugin for jQuery and Zepto. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	53.7%
2	Google URL Shortener Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated link service from Google. Legacy	16.4%
3	jQuery Cookie A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	13.4%
4	Skrollr Standalone parallax scrolling JavaScript library for mobile (Android, iOS) and desktop in about 12k minified. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	6%
5	jQuery LazyLoad A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	6%
6	jQuery Mousewheel A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	4.5%
7	iLightBox A commercial jQuery lightbox plugin. $16+Legacy	3%
8	Closure Library Mountain View, California, United States A low-level JavaScript library designed for building complex and scalable web applications. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	3%
9	Google Funding Choices Mountain View, California, United States A messaging tool for GDPR and CCPA compliance and ad blocking recovery. Legacy	3%
10	Adobe Flash San Jose, California, United States A discontinued multimedia software platform for creating animations and interactive apps. Legacy	3%
11	J2Store Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India An open-source e-commerce extension for Joomla that is no longer maintained. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	3%
12	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	1.5%
13	Picturefill A responsive image polyfill for , srcset, sizes, and more. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.5%
14	SWFObject A deprecated framework for detecting the Adobe Flash Player plugin and embedding Flash files. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.5%
15	Shadowbox A lightbox library for photos and videos, last released in 2014. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.5%
16	Critters San Francisco, California, United States A deprecated Webpack plugin that inlines your app's critical CSS and lazily loads the rest. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.5%
17	AddThis Austin, Texas, United States A social bookmarking service that discontinued its services on May 31, 2023. FreeLegacy	1.5%
18	iScroll A high-performance JavaScript library for smooth scrolling. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.5%
19	RawGit Portland, Oregon, United States A public CDN for serving files from raw.githubusercontent.com with the correct content types. FreeLegacy	1.5%
20	Stacktable.js jQuery plugin for stacking tables on small screens. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.5%
21	Messenger Customer Chat Menlo Park, California, United States The website chat widget from Meta that was retired in May 2024. Legacy	1.5%

👉 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 230 websites from Ethiopia.
We currently track the presence of 117 legacy technologies across the web.
Of these, 21 were detected on websites from Ethiopia.
Statistics were last calculated on May 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.