⚡ 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 24.4% of websites from France.

Statistics based on 125K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Owl Carousel with an impressive share of 30.7%, followed by Magnific Popup with 19.4% and jQuery Mousewheel with 11.4%.

Owl Carousel 30.7%
Magnific Popup 19.4%
jQuery Mousewheel 11.4%
jQuery Cookie 9.6%
Moment.js 6.7%
Google URL Shortener 6.3%
Facebook Like 4.4%
Adobe Flash 3.9%
AddThis 3.5%
iLightBox 2.8%
Google Webmaster Tools 2.4%
Picturefill 2.4%
AT Internet 2.2%
Skrollr 2.2%
Polymer 1.8%

🚀 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.

3. jQuery Mousewheel ^(-2)
5. Moment.js ^(-1)
7. Facebook Like ^(-1)
10. iLightBox ^(-1)
11. Google Webmaster Tools ^(-9)
12. Picturefill ^(-3)
13. AT Internet ^(-41)
16. jQuery LazyLoad ^(-1)
17. Google Funding Choices ^(-5)
19. SWFObject ^(-2)

✨ Best Legacy Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 99 legacy technologies used on sites from France, 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	30.7%
2	Magnific Popup A responsive lightbox and dialog plugin for jQuery and Zepto.js. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	19.4%
3	jQuery Mousewheel A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	11.4%
4	jQuery Cookie A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	9.6%
5	Moment.js San Francisco, California, United States An open-source JavaScript library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	6.7%
6	Google URL Shortener Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated link service from Google. Legacy	6.3%
7	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	4.4%
8	Adobe Flash San Jose, California, United States A discontinued multimedia software platform for creating animations and interactive apps. Legacy	3.9%
9	AddThis Austin, Texas, United States A social bookmarking service that discontinued its services on May 31, 2023. FreeLegacy	3.5%
10	iLightBox A commercial jQuery lightbox plugin. $16+Legacy	2.8%
11	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	2.4%
12	Picturefill A responsive image polyfill for <picture>, srcset, sizes, and more. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2.4%
13	AT Internet Bordeaux, France A fully GDPR-compliant web analytics solution before Piano's acquisition of the company. €355+/monthLegacy	2.2%
14	Skrollr Standalone parallax scrolling JavaScript library for mobile (Android, iOS) and desktop in about 12k minified. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2.2%
15	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	1.8%
16	jQuery LazyLoad A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.8%
17	Google Funding Choices Mountain View, California, United States A messaging tool for GDPR and CCPA compliance and ad blocking recovery. Legacy	1.7%
18	ASP Redmond, Washington, United States A server-side scripting language and dynamic web page engine. FreeLegacy	1.6%
19	SWFObject A deprecated framework for detecting the Adobe Flash Player plugin and embedding Flash files. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.5%
20	Messenger Customer Chat Menlo Park, California, United States The website chat widget from Meta that was retired in May 2024. Legacy	1.2%
21	AngularJS Mountain View, California, United States A discontinued open-source web framework from Google that has been superseded by Angular. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.1%
22	CentOS Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A discontinued open-source Linux distribution compatible with RHEL. Legacy	1%
23	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%
24	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	0.7%
25	Closure Library Mountain View, California, United States A low-level JavaScript library designed for building complex and scalable web applications. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	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 125,455 websites from France.
We currently track the presence of 124 legacy technologies across the web.
Of these, 99 were detected on websites from France.
Statistics were last calculated on August 3, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.