⚡ 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 29.8% of websites from Ghana.

Statistics based on 687 analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ 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 52.7% share.
It is followed by jQuery Mousewheel with 10.7% and jQuery Cookie with 8.3%.

Magnific Popup 52.7%
jQuery Mousewheel 10.7%
jQuery Cookie 8.3%
Google URL Shortener 7.3%
Skrollr 6.3%
Google Funding Choices 5.4%
AddThis 3.4%
Closure Library 2.9%
iLightBox 2.4%
Turbolinks 2%
Polymer 2%
Alexa 1.5%
J2Store 1.5%
AngularJS 1.5%
Picturefill 1.5%

🚀 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 ^(-10)
13. J2Store ^(-51)
14. AngularJS ^(-3)
18. Google Sign-In ^(-18)
22. Critters ^(-11)

✨ 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. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	52.7%
2	jQuery Mousewheel A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	10.7%
3	jQuery Cookie A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	8.3%
4	Google URL Shortener Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated link service from Google. Legacy	7.3%
5	Skrollr Standalone parallax scrolling JavaScript library for mobile (Android, iOS) and desktop in about 12k minified. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	6.3%
6	Google Funding Choices Mountain View, California, United States A messaging tool for GDPR and CCPA compliance and ad blocking recovery. Legacy	5.4%
7	AddThis Austin, Texas, United States A social bookmarking service that discontinued its services on May 31, 2023. FreeLegacy	3.4%
8	Closure Library Mountain View, California, United States A low-level JavaScript library designed for building complex and scalable web applications. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2.9%
9	iLightBox A commercial jQuery lightbox plugin. $16+Legacy	2.4%
10	Turbolinks Chicago, Illinois, United States A JavaScript library that allows web apps to behave like a single page application. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2%
11	Polymer A library for creating encapsulated, reusable web components. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2%
12	Alexa Seattle, Washington, United States A web traffic analysis service from Amazon that was discontinued in 2022. Legacy	1.5%
13	J2Store Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India An open-source e-commerce extension for Joomla that is no longer maintained. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.5%
14	AngularJS Mountain View, California, United States A discontinued open-source web framework from Google that has been superseded by Angular. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.5%
15	Picturefill A responsive image polyfill for , srcset, sizes, and more. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.5%
16	jQuery LazyLoad A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1%
17	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%
18	Google Sign-In Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated JavaScript library that has been superseded by Google Identity services for Web. FreeLegacy	1%
19	CentOS Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A discontinued open-source Linux distribution compatible with RHEL. Legacy	1%
20	Messenger Customer Chat Menlo Park, California, United States The website chat widget from Meta that was retired in May 2024. Legacy	1%
21	Adobe Flash San Jose, California, United States A discontinued multimedia software platform for creating animations and interactive apps. Legacy	1%
22	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%
23	Adobe Muse San Jose, California, United States A discontinued desktop application for designing web pages with intuitive, visual tools. $24.99+/monthLegacy	1%
24	iScroll A high-performance JavaScript library for smooth scrolling. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1%
25	Oracle Moat Austin, Texas, United States A measurement and marketing analytics suite designed to measure media performance across digital and TV advertising campaigns. Legacy	0.5%

👉 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 687 websites from Ghana.
We currently track the presence of 117 legacy technologies across the web.
Of these, 33 were detected on websites from Ghana.
Statistics were last calculated on May 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.