⚡ Legacy Technologies in Greece

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.

Greece is a Southern European country with a population of around 10.3 million people.

According to our data, legacy technologies are detected on 31.4% of websites from Greece.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Magnific Popup with an impressive share of 33.2%, followed by Google URL Shortener with 18.2% and jQuery Mousewheel with 14.3%.

Magnific Popup 33.2%
Google URL Shortener 18.2%
jQuery Mousewheel 14.3%
jQuery Cookie 13.2%
Adobe Flash 5.2%
AddThis 5%
Skrollr 5%
Messenger Customer Chat 4.8%
iLightBox 3.7%
ASP 3.3%
SWFObject 2.4%
jQuery LazyLoad 2%
Facebook Like Box 1.7%
Picturefill 1.7%
AngularJS 1.4%

🚀 Highlights

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

2. Google URL Shortener ^(-1)
3. jQuery Mousewheel ^(-1)
7. Skrollr ^(-4)
8. Messenger Customer Chat ^(-6)
11. SWFObject ^(-7)
12. jQuery LazyLoad ^(-1)
13. Facebook Like Box ^(-7)
15. AngularJS ^(-2)
16. Google Funding Choices ^(-3)
17. Alexa ^(-6)

✨ Best Legacy Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 65 legacy technologies used on sites from Greece, 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	33.2%
2	Google URL Shortener Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated link service from Google. Legacy	18.2%
3	jQuery Mousewheel A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	14.3%
4	jQuery Cookie A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	13.2%
5	Adobe Flash San Jose, California, United States A discontinued multimedia software platform for creating animations and interactive apps. Legacy	5.2%
6	AddThis Austin, Texas, United States A social bookmarking service that discontinued its services on May 31, 2023. FreeLegacy	5%
7	Skrollr Standalone parallax scrolling JavaScript library for mobile (Android, iOS) and desktop in about 12k minified. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	5%
8	Messenger Customer Chat Menlo Park, California, United States The website chat widget from Meta that was retired in May 2024. Legacy	4.8%
9	iLightBox A commercial jQuery lightbox plugin. $16+Legacy	3.7%
10	ASP Redmond, Washington, United States A server-side scripting language and dynamic web page engine. FreeLegacy	3.3%
11	SWFObject A deprecated framework for detecting the Adobe Flash Player plugin and embedding Flash files. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2.4%
12	jQuery LazyLoad A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2%
13	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	1.7%
14	Picturefill A responsive image polyfill for , srcset, sizes, and more. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.7%
15	AngularJS Mountain View, California, United States A discontinued open-source web framework from Google that has been superseded by Angular. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.4%
16	Google Funding Choices Mountain View, California, United States A messaging tool for GDPR and CCPA compliance and ad blocking recovery. Legacy	1.4%
17	Alexa Seattle, Washington, United States A web traffic analysis service from Amazon that was discontinued in 2022. Legacy	1.3%
18	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. FreeLegacy	1.1%
19	Polymer A library for creating encapsulated, reusable web components. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1%
20	CentOS Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A discontinued open-source Linux distribution compatible with RHEL. Legacy	0.9%
21	qTranslate-X A discontinued WordPress plugin used for managing dynamic multilingual content on websites. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.9%
22	Closure Library Mountain View, California, United States A low-level JavaScript library designed for building complex and scalable web applications. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.8%
23	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	0.8%
24	Foursquare New York, United States City Guide was a location-based social networking app that allowed users to discover and review local businesses and attractions. Free$$$Legacy	0.7%
25	Shadowbox A lightbox library for photos and videos, last released in 2014. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.6%

👉 See Also

🌎 Legacy in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 20,568 websites from Greece.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.