⚡ 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 25.9% of websites from Iraq.

Statistics based on 486 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 Magnific Popup with an impressive share of 48.4%, followed by Google URL Shortener with 12.7% and jQuery Cookie with 9.5%.

Magnific Popup 48.4%
Google URL Shortener 12.7%
jQuery Cookie 9.5%
jQuery Mousewheel 8.7%
iLightBox 7.1%
AddThis 7.1%
Messenger Customer Chat 5.6%
Turbolinks 2.4%
Google Optimize 2.4%
Facebook Like Box 2.4%
Picturefill 2.4%
RawGit 1.6%
AngularJS 1.6%
Skrollr 1.6%
Adobe Flash 1.6%

🚀 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.

2. Google URL Shortener ^(-1)
5. iLightBox ^(-3)
7. Messenger Customer Chat ^(-7)
8. Turbolinks ^(-16)
9. Google Optimize ^(-12)
10. Facebook Like Box ^(-10)
11. Picturefill ^(-1)
12. RawGit ^(-15)
13. AngularJS ^(-4)
16. Critters ^(-17)

✨ Best Legacy Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 29 legacy technologies used on sites from Iraq, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Magnific Popup A responsive lightbox and dialog plugin for jQuery and Zepto. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	48.4%
2	Google URL Shortener Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated link service from Google. Legacy	12.7%
3	jQuery Cookie A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	9.5%
4	jQuery Mousewheel A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	8.7%
5	iLightBox A commercial jQuery lightbox plugin. $16+Legacy	7.1%
6	AddThis Austin, Texas, United States A social bookmarking service that discontinued its services on May 31, 2023. FreeLegacy	7.1%
7	Messenger Customer Chat Menlo Park, California, United States The website chat widget from Meta that was retired in May 2024. Legacy	5.6%
8	Turbolinks Chicago, Illinois, United States A JavaScript library that allows web apps to behave like a single page application. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2.4%
9	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	2.4%
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	2.4%
11	Picturefill A responsive image polyfill for , srcset, sizes, and more. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2.4%
12	RawGit Portland, Oregon, United States A public CDN for serving files from raw.githubusercontent.com with the correct content types. FreeLegacy	1.6%
13	AngularJS Mountain View, California, United States A discontinued open-source web framework from Google that has been superseded by Angular. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.6%
14	Skrollr Standalone parallax scrolling JavaScript library for mobile (Android, iOS) and desktop in about 12k minified. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.6%
15	Adobe Flash San Jose, California, United States A discontinued multimedia software platform for creating animations and interactive apps. Legacy	1.6%
16	Critters San Francisco, California, United States A deprecated Webpack plugin that inlines your app's critical CSS and lazily loads the rest. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.6%
17	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	0.8%
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	0.8%
19	Prefix-free A legacy script that adds browser prefixes to CSS code when needed for old browsers. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.8%
20	qTranslate-X A discontinued WordPress plugin used for managing dynamic multilingual content on websites. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.8%
21	Closure Library Mountain View, California, United States A low-level JavaScript library designed for building complex and scalable web applications. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.8%
22	jQuery LazyLoad A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.8%
23	Shadowbox A lightbox library for photos and videos, last released in 2014. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.8%
24	Google Podcasts Mountain View, California, United States A podcasting directory that was shut down in mid-2024 with the migration to YouTube Music. Legacy	0.8%
25	Alexa Seattle, Washington, United States A web traffic analysis service from Amazon that was discontinued in 2022. Legacy	0.8%

👉 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 486 websites from Iraq.
We currently track the presence of 117 legacy technologies across the web.
Of these, 29 were detected on websites from Iraq.
Statistics were last calculated on May 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.