⚡ 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 39.6% of websites from Ghana.

Statistics based on 838 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 Owl Carousel with an impressive share of 47.3%, followed by Magnific Popup with 41.6% and Moment.js with 8.7%.

Owl Carousel 47.3%
Magnific Popup 41.6%
Moment.js 8.7%
Google URL Shortener 7.5%
jQuery Mousewheel 6%
jQuery Cookie 5.7%
Skrollr 5.1%
Google Funding Choices 4.5%
AddThis 2.4%
Closure Library 2.1%
AngularJS 1.8%
Facebook Like 1.5%
iLightBox 0.9%
Adobe Muse 0.9%
Turbolinks 0.9%

🚀 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.

3. Moment.js ^(-3)
7. Skrollr ^(-5)
8. Google Funding Choices ^(-13)
9. AddThis ^(-1)
10. Closure Library ^(-16)
11. AngularJS ^(-7)
14. Adobe Muse ^(-35)
15. Turbolinks ^(-12)
16. Polymer ^(-1)
17. Microsoft Invest ^(-6)

✨ Best Legacy Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 42 legacy technologies used on sites from Ghana, 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	47.3%
2	Magnific Popup Kyiv, Ukraine A responsive lightbox and dialog plugin for jQuery and Zepto.js. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	41.6%
3	Moment.js San Francisco, California, United States An open-source JavaScript library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	8.7%
4	Google URL Shortener Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated link service from Google. Legacy	7.5%
5	jQuery Mousewheel San Francisco, California, United States A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support with delta normalization. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	6%
6	jQuery Cookie Germany A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	5.7%
7	Skrollr Standalone parallax scrolling JavaScript library for mobile (Android, iOS) and desktop in about 12k minified. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	5.1%
8	Google Funding Choices Mountain View, California, United States A messaging tool for GDPR and CCPA compliance and ad blocking recovery. Legacy	4.5%
9	AddThis Austin, Texas, United States A social bookmarking service that discontinued its services on May 31, 2023. FreeLegacy	2.4%
10	Closure Library Mountain View, California, United States A low-level JavaScript library designed for building complex and scalable web applications. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2.1%
11	AngularJS Mountain View, California, United States A discontinued open-source web framework from Google that has been superseded by Angular. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.8%
12	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	1.5%
13	iLightBox A commercial jQuery lightbox plugin. $16+Legacy	0.9%
14	Adobe Muse San Jose, California, United States A discontinued desktop application for designing web pages with intuitive, visual tools. $24.99+/monthLegacy	0.9%
15	Turbolinks Chicago, Illinois, United States A JavaScript library that allows web apps to behave like a single page application. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.9%
16	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	0.9%
17	Microsoft Invest Redmond, Washington, United States A demand-side ad management platform created after Microsoft's acquisition of Xandr to facilitate programmatic media buying. Legacy	0.9%
18	J2Store Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India An open-source e-commerce extension for Joomla that is no longer maintained. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.9%
19	CentOS Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A discontinued open-source Linux distribution compatible with RHEL. Legacy	0.9%
20	Adobe Flash San Jose, California, United States A discontinued multimedia software platform for creating animations and interactive apps. Legacy	0.9%
21	Picturefill Boston, Massachusetts, United States A responsive image polyfill for <picture>, srcset, sizes, and more. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.9%
22	Salesforce Chat San Francisco, California, United States A legacy live chat solution from Salesforce that was retired in February 2026. Legacy	0.6%
23	Skype Redmond, Washington, United States A communications platform for voice and video calls and sending instant messages that was retired on May 5, 2025 in favor of Microsoft Teams. Free$$$Legacy	0.6%
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	0.6%
25	Critters San Francisco, California, United States A deprecated Webpack plugin that inlines your app's critical CSS and lazily loads the rest. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.6%

👉 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 838 websites from Ghana.
We currently track the presence of 130 legacy technologies across the web.
Of these, 42 were detected on websites from Ghana.
Statistics were last calculated on September 18, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.