⚡ 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 32.8% of websites from Iraq.

Statistics based on 534 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 48.6%, followed by Magnific Popup with 38.9% and Google URL Shortener with 9.7%.

Owl Carousel 48.6%
Magnific Popup 38.9%
Google URL Shortener 9.7%
jQuery Cookie 7.4%
jQuery Mousewheel 6.3%
AddThis 5.1%
iLightBox 5.1%
Messenger Customer Chat 3.4%
Moment.js 2.9%
Facebook Like Box 2.3%
Adobe Flash 1.7%
Picturefill 1.7%
Turbolinks 1.7%
Google Optimize 1.7%
Skrollr 1.7%

🚀 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.

6. AddThis ^(-4)
7. iLightBox ^(-4)
8. Messenger Customer Chat ^(-8)
10. Facebook Like Box ^(-14)
12. Picturefill ^(-3)
13. Turbolinks ^(-13)
14. Google Optimize ^(-11)
16. RawGit ^(-15)
17. Critters ^(-21)
19. Google Podcasts ^(-28)

✨ 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	Owl Carousel Germany A deprecated open-source jQuery plugin for creating responsive, touch-enabled, and accessible carousel sliders. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	48.6%
2	Magnific Popup Kyiv, Ukraine A responsive lightbox and dialog plugin for jQuery and Zepto.js. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	38.9%
3	Google URL Shortener Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated link service from Google. Legacy	9.7%
4	jQuery Cookie Germany A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	7.4%
5	jQuery Mousewheel San Francisco, California, United States A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support with delta normalization. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	6.3%
6	AddThis Austin, Texas, United States A social bookmarking service that discontinued its services on May 31, 2023. FreeLegacy	5.1%
7	iLightBox A commercial jQuery lightbox plugin. $16+Legacy	5.1%
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	Moment.js San Francisco, California, United States An open-source JavaScript library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2.9%
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	Adobe Flash San Jose, California, United States A discontinued multimedia software platform for creating animations and interactive apps. Legacy	1.7%
12	Picturefill Boston, Massachusetts, United States A responsive image polyfill for <picture>, srcset, sizes, and more. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	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	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%
15	Skrollr Standalone parallax scrolling JavaScript library for mobile (Android, iOS) and desktop in about 12k minified. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.7%
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	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%
18	AngularJS Mountain View, California, United States A discontinued open-source web framework from Google that has been superseded by Angular. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.1%
19	Google Podcasts Mountain View, California, United States A podcasting directory that was shut down in mid-2024 with the migration to YouTube Music. Legacy	0.6%
20	Alexa Seattle, Washington, United States A web traffic analysis service from Amazon that was discontinued in 2022. Legacy	0.6%
21	Shadowbox A lightbox library for photos and videos, last released in 2014. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.6%
22	YUI New York, United States A legacy, open-source JavaScript and CSS library for building interactive web applications with a focus on modular architecture and cross-browser consistency. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.6%
23	jQuery LazyLoad Finland A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.6%
24	Google Funding Choices Mountain View, California, United States A messaging tool for GDPR and CCPA compliance and ad blocking recovery. Legacy	0.6%
25	Prefix-free A legacy script that adds browser prefixes to CSS code when needed for old browsers. 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 534 websites from Iraq.
We currently track the presence of 126 legacy technologies across the web.
Of these, 29 were detected on websites from Iraq.
Statistics were last calculated on August 13, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.