⚡ Legacy Technologies in Iraq

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.

Iraq is a Western Asian country with a population of over 45 million people.

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

Statistics based on 595 analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Owl Carousel with an impressive share of 51.7%, followed by Magnific Popup with 39.7% and jQuery Cookie with 9.8%.

Owl Carousel 51.7%
Magnific Popup 39.7%
jQuery Cookie 9.8%
Google URL Shortener 9.8%
jQuery Mousewheel 5.7%
AddThis 5.2%
iLightBox 4.6%
Messenger Customer Chat 3.4%
Picturefill 2.3%
Facebook Like Box 2.3%
Skrollr 1.7%
Google Optimize 1.7%
Turbolinks 1.7%
Adobe Flash 1.7%
AngularJS 1.1%

🚀 Highlights

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

3. jQuery Cookie ^(-1)
6. AddThis ^(-4)
7. iLightBox ^(-4)
8. Messenger Customer Chat ^(-8)
9. Picturefill ^(-4)
10. Facebook Like Box ^(-15)
11. Skrollr ^(-1)
12. Google Optimize ^(-12)
13. Turbolinks ^(-14)
15. AngularJS ^(-3)

✨ Best Legacy Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 30 legacy technologies used on sites from Iraq, 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	51.7%
2	Magnific Popup Kyiv, Ukraine A responsive lightbox and dialog plugin for jQuery and Zepto.js. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	39.7%
3	jQuery Cookie Germany A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	9.8%
4	Google URL Shortener Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated link service from Google. Legacy	9.8%
5	jQuery Mousewheel San Francisco, California, United States A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support with delta normalization. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	5.7%
6	AddThis Austin, Texas, United States A social bookmarking service that discontinued its services on May 31, 2023. FreeLegacy	5.2%
7	iLightBox A commercial jQuery lightbox plugin. $16+Legacy	4.6%
8	Messenger Customer Chat Menlo Park, California, United States The website chat widget from Meta that was retired in May 2024. Legacy	3.4%
9	Picturefill Boston, Massachusetts, United States A responsive image polyfill for <picture>, srcset, sizes, and more. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2.3%
10	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	2.3%
11	Skrollr Standalone parallax scrolling JavaScript library for mobile (Android, iOS) and desktop in about 12k minified. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.7%
12	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	1.7%
13	Turbolinks Chicago, Illinois, United States A JavaScript library that allows web apps to behave like a single page application. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.7%
14	Adobe Flash San Jose, California, United States A discontinued multimedia software platform for creating animations and interactive apps. Legacy	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	1.1%
16	RawGit Portland, Oregon, United States A public CDN for serving files from raw.githubusercontent.com with the correct content types. FreeLegacy	1.1%
17	Moment.js San Francisco, California, United States An open-source JavaScript library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.1%
18	Critters San Francisco, California, United States A deprecated Webpack plugin that inlines your app's critical CSS and lazily loads the rest. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.1%
19	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%
20	Microsoft FrontPage Redmond, Washington, United States A WYSIWYG HTML editor and website administration tool that was part of Microsoft Office until it was discontinued in 2003. $149Legacy	0.6%
21	Prefix-free A legacy script that adds browser prefixes to CSS code when needed for old browsers. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.6%
22	Material Design Lite Mountain View, California, United States A legacy user interface framework that implements Material Design components using plain CSS, JavaScript, and HTML without external dependencies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.6%
23	Shadowbox A lightbox library for photos and videos, last released in 2014. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.6%
24	jQuery LazyLoad Finland A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.6%
25	CentOS Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A discontinued open-source Linux distribution compatible with RHEL. Legacy	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 595 websites from Iraq.
We currently track the presence of 130 legacy technologies across the web.
Of these, 30 were detected on websites from Iraq.
Statistics were last calculated on November 12, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.