⚡ Legacy Technologies in France

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.

France is a Western European country with a population of around 69 million people.

According to our data, legacy technologies are detected on 17.8% of websites from France.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Magnific Popup with a share of 25.7%, followed by jQuery Mousewheel with 15.1% and jQuery Cookie with 13.1%.

Magnific Popup 25.7%
jQuery Mousewheel 15.1%
jQuery Cookie 13.1%
Google URL Shortener 8.2%
Adobe Flash 5.5%
AddThis 4.9%
iLightBox 3.7%
Google Webmaster Tools 3.4%
Picturefill 3.2%
AT Internet 3.2%
Skrollr 3%
Polymer 2.8%
jQuery LazyLoad 2.5%
ASP 2.2%
Other 3.5%

🚀 Highlights

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

2. jQuery Mousewheel ^(-2)
7. iLightBox ^(-2)
8. Google Webmaster Tools ^(-8)
9. Picturefill ^(-3)
10. AT Internet ^(-39)
15. Google Funding Choices ^(-4)
16. SWFObject ^(-2)
22. Turbolinks ^(-2)
23. Closure Library ^(-2)
24. Shadowbox ^(-7)

✨ Best Legacy Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 94 legacy technologies used on sites from France, 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	25.7%
2	jQuery Mousewheel A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	15.1%
3	jQuery Cookie A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	13.1%
4	Google URL Shortener Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated link service from Google. Legacy	8.2%
5	Adobe Flash San Jose, California, United States A discontinued multimedia software platform for creating animations and interactive apps. Legacy	5.5%
6	AddThis Austin, Texas, United States A social bookmarking service that discontinued its services on May 31, 2023. FreeLegacy	4.9%
7	iLightBox A commercial jQuery lightbox plugin. $16+Legacy	3.7%
8	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	3.4%
9	Picturefill A responsive image polyfill for , srcset, sizes, and more. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	3.2%
10	AT Internet Bordeaux, France Analytics Suite was a fully GDPR-compliant web analytics solution before Piano's acquisition of the company. €355+/monthLegacy	3.2%
11	Skrollr Standalone parallax scrolling JavaScript library for mobile (Android, iOS) and desktop in about 12k minified. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	3%
12	Polymer A library for creating encapsulated, reusable web components. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2.8%
13	jQuery LazyLoad A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2.5%
14	ASP Redmond, Washington, United States A server-side scripting language and dynamic web page engine. FreeLegacy	2.2%
15	Google Funding Choices Mountain View, California, United States A messaging tool for GDPR and CCPA compliance and ad blocking recovery. Legacy	2.1%
16	SWFObject A deprecated framework for detecting the Adobe Flash Player plugin and embedding Flash files. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2%
17	Messenger Customer Chat Menlo Park, California, United States The website chat widget from Meta that was retired in May 2024. Legacy	1.6%
18	AngularJS Mountain View, California, United States A discontinued open-source web framework from Google that has been superseded by Angular. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.6%
19	CentOS Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A discontinued open-source Linux distribution compatible with RHEL. Legacy	1.5%
20	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%
21	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%
22	Turbolinks Chicago, Illinois, United States A JavaScript library that allows web apps to behave like a single page application. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.9%
23	Closure Library Mountain View, California, United States A low-level JavaScript library designed for building complex and scalable web applications. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.9%
24	Shadowbox A lightbox library for photos and videos, last released in 2014. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.8%
25	Google +1 Button Mountain View, California, United States The sharing button code for the discontinued Google +1 service. Legacy	0.7%

👉 See Also

🌎 Legacy in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 111,745 websites from France.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.