⚡ Legacy Technologies in Ghana

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.

Ghana is a West African country with a population of over 34 million people.

According to our data, legacy technologies are detected on 29.2% of websites from Ghana.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Magnific Popup, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 50.3% share.
It is followed by jQuery Mousewheel with 10.9% and Google URL Shortener with 7.3%.

Magnific Popup 50.3%
jQuery Mousewheel 10.9%
Google URL Shortener 7.3%
jQuery Cookie 7.3%
Skrollr 6.2%
Google Funding Choices 5.7%
AddThis 3.6%
Closure Library 2.6%
iLightBox 2.6%
Turbolinks 2.1%
Polymer 2.1%
Alexa 1.6%
J2Store 1.6%
Picturefill 1.6%
CentOS 1%

🚀 Highlights

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

2. jQuery Mousewheel ^(-2)
5. Skrollr ^(-6)
6. Google Funding Choices ^(-13)
8. Closure Library ^(-17)
10. Turbolinks ^(-14)
12. Alexa ^(-11)
13. J2Store ^(-49)
16. iScroll ^(-10)
17. Adobe Muse ^(-24)
20. Critters ^(-12)

✨ Best Legacy Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 33 legacy technologies used on sites from Ghana, 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	50.3%
2	jQuery Mousewheel A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	10.9%
3	Google URL Shortener Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated link service from Google. Legacy	7.3%
4	jQuery Cookie A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	7.3%
5	Skrollr Standalone parallax scrolling JavaScript library for mobile (Android, iOS) and desktop in about 12k minified. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	6.2%
6	Google Funding Choices Mountain View, California, United States A messaging tool for GDPR and CCPA compliance and ad blocking recovery. Legacy	5.7%
7	AddThis Austin, Texas, United States A social bookmarking service that discontinued its services on May 31, 2023. FreeLegacy	3.6%
8	Closure Library Mountain View, California, United States A low-level JavaScript library designed for building complex and scalable web applications. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2.6%
9	iLightBox A commercial jQuery lightbox plugin. $16+Legacy	2.6%
10	Turbolinks Chicago, Illinois, United States A JavaScript library that allows web apps to behave like a single page application. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2.1%
11	Polymer A library for creating encapsulated, reusable web components. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2.1%
12	Alexa Seattle, Washington, United States A web traffic analysis service from Amazon that was discontinued in 2022. Legacy	1.6%
13	J2Store Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India An open-source e-commerce extension for Joomla that is no longer maintained. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.6%
14	Picturefill A responsive image polyfill for , srcset, sizes, and more. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.6%
15	CentOS Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A discontinued open-source Linux distribution compatible with RHEL. Legacy	1%
16	iScroll A high-performance JavaScript library for smooth scrolling. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1%
17	Adobe Muse San Jose, California, United States A discontinued desktop application for designing web pages with intuitive, visual tools. $24.99+/monthLegacy	1%
18	jQuery LazyLoad A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1%
19	Adobe Flash San Jose, California, United States A discontinued multimedia software platform for creating animations and interactive apps. Legacy	1%
20	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%
21	Google Sign-In Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated JavaScript library that has been superseded by Google Identity Services for Web. FreeLegacy	1%
22	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%
23	AngularJS Mountain View, California, United States A discontinued open-source web framework from Google that has been superseded by Angular. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1%
24	Audience Studio San Francisco, California, United States A data management platform that was retired in February 2024. Legacy	0.5%
25	Google Podcasts Mountain View, California, United States A podcasting directory that was shut down in mid-2024 with the migration to YouTube Music. Legacy	0.5%

👉 See Also

🌎 Legacy in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 662 websites from Ghana.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.