⚡ 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 39.1% of websites from Greece.

Statistics based on 22K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Owl Carousel with an impressive share of 35.6%, followed by Magnific Popup with 26.6% and Google URL Shortener with 15.2%.

Owl Carousel 35.6%
Magnific Popup 26.6%
Google URL Shortener 15.2%
jQuery Mousewheel 11.3%
jQuery Cookie 10.4%
Moment.js 5.4%
Skrollr 4%
AddThis 3.9%
Adobe Flash 3.8%
Messenger Customer Chat 3.7%
Facebook Like 3.5%
iLightBox 2.9%
ASP 2.6%
SWFObject 1.8%
jQuery LazyLoad 1.6%

🚀 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.

4. jQuery Mousewheel ^(-1)
7. Skrollr ^(-6)
8. AddThis ^(-2)
10. Messenger Customer Chat ^(-6)
14. SWFObject ^(-7)
15. jQuery LazyLoad ^(-2)
16. Facebook Like Box ^(-8)
18. Google Funding Choices ^(-4)
21. Alexa ^(-7)
24. qTranslate-X ^(-19)

✨ Best Legacy Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 71 legacy technologies used on sites from Greece, 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	35.6%
2	Magnific Popup Kyiv, Ukraine A responsive lightbox and dialog plugin for jQuery and Zepto.js. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	26.6%
3	Google URL Shortener Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated link service from Google. Legacy	15.2%
4	jQuery Mousewheel San Francisco, California, United States A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support with delta normalization. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	11.3%
5	jQuery Cookie Germany A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	10.4%
6	Moment.js San Francisco, California, United States An open-source JavaScript library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	5.4%
7	Skrollr Standalone parallax scrolling JavaScript library for mobile (Android, iOS) and desktop in about 12k minified. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	4%
8	AddThis Austin, Texas, United States A social bookmarking service that discontinued its services on May 31, 2023. FreeLegacy	3.9%
9	Adobe Flash San Jose, California, United States A discontinued multimedia software platform for creating animations and interactive apps. Legacy	3.8%
10	Messenger Customer Chat Menlo Park, California, United States The website chat widget from Meta that was retired in May 2024. Legacy	3.7%
11	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	3.5%
12	iLightBox A commercial jQuery lightbox plugin. $16+Legacy	2.9%
13	ASP Redmond, Washington, United States A server-side scripting language and dynamic web page engine. FreeLegacy	2.6%
14	SWFObject A deprecated framework for detecting the Adobe Flash Player plugin and embedding Flash files. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.8%
15	jQuery LazyLoad Finland A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.6%
16	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	1.3%
17	Picturefill Boston, Massachusetts, United States A responsive image polyfill for <picture>, srcset, sizes, and more. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.3%
18	Google Funding Choices Mountain View, California, United States A messaging tool for GDPR and CCPA compliance and ad blocking recovery. Legacy	1.1%
19	AngularJS Mountain View, California, United States A discontinued open-source web framework from Google that has been superseded by Angular. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1%
20	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	0.9%
21	Alexa Seattle, Washington, United States A web traffic analysis service from Amazon that was discontinued in 2022. Legacy	0.9%
22	CentOS Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A discontinued open-source Linux distribution compatible with RHEL. Legacy	0.8%
23	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	0.7%
24	qTranslate-X A discontinued WordPress plugin used for managing dynamic multilingual content on websites. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	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	0.6%

👉 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 22,313 websites from Greece.
We currently track the presence of 126 legacy technologies across the web.
Of these, 71 were detected on websites from Greece.
Statistics were last calculated on August 13, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.