⚡ Legacy Technologies in Iran

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.

Iran is a Western Asian country with a population of over 89 million people.

According to our data, legacy technologies are detected on 21.1% of websites from Iran.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Magnific Popup with an impressive share of 46.9%, followed by Google URL Shortener with 11.4% and iLightBox with 11.1%.

Magnific Popup 46.9%
Google URL Shortener 11.4%
iLightBox 11.1%
jQuery Cookie 10.2%
jQuery Mousewheel 7.2%
AngularJS 4.6%
Adobe Flash 3.7%
jQuery LazyLoad 2.3%
Skrollr 2.1%
Alexa 2.1%
ASP 1.5%
Picturefill 1.4%
AddThis 1.3%
Prefix-free 1.3%
Google +1 Button 1%

🚀 Highlights

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

2. Google URL Shortener ^(-1)
3. iLightBox ^(-6)
6. AngularJS ^(-11)
8. jQuery LazyLoad ^(-5)
9. Skrollr ^(-2)
10. Alexa ^(-13)
14. Prefix-free ^(-25)
15. Google +1 Button ^(-13)
16. SWFObject ^(-2)
18. Turbolinks ^(-6)

✨ Best Legacy Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 53 legacy technologies used on sites from Iran, 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	46.9%
2	Google URL Shortener Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated link service from Google. Legacy	11.4%
3	iLightBox A commercial jQuery lightbox plugin. $16+Legacy	11.1%
4	jQuery Cookie A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	10.2%
5	jQuery Mousewheel A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	7.2%
6	AngularJS Mountain View, California, United States A discontinued open-source web framework from Google that has been superseded by Angular. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	4.6%
7	Adobe Flash San Jose, California, United States A discontinued multimedia software platform for creating animations and interactive apps. Legacy	3.7%
8	jQuery LazyLoad A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2.3%
9	Skrollr Standalone parallax scrolling JavaScript library for mobile (Android, iOS) and desktop in about 12k minified. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2.1%
10	Alexa Seattle, Washington, United States A web traffic analysis service from Amazon that was discontinued in 2022. Legacy	2.1%
11	ASP Redmond, Washington, United States A server-side scripting language and dynamic web page engine. FreeLegacy	1.5%
12	Picturefill A responsive image polyfill for , srcset, sizes, and more. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.4%
13	AddThis Austin, Texas, United States A social bookmarking service that discontinued its services on May 31, 2023. FreeLegacy	1.3%
14	Prefix-free A legacy script that adds browser prefixes to CSS code when needed for old browsers. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.3%
15	Google +1 Button Mountain View, California, United States The sharing button code for the discontinued Google +1 service. Legacy	1%
16	SWFObject A deprecated framework for detecting the Adobe Flash Player plugin and embedding Flash files. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.9%
17	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	0.7%
18	Turbolinks Chicago, Illinois, United States A JavaScript library that allows web apps to behave like a single page application. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.7%
19	CentOS Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A discontinued open-source Linux distribution compatible with RHEL. Legacy	0.4%
20	Shadowbox A lightbox library for photos and videos, last released in 2014. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.4%
21	Critters San Francisco, California, United States A deprecated Webpack plugin that inlines your app's critical CSS and lazily loads the rest. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.4%
22	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	0.4%
23	RawGit Portland, Oregon, United States A public CDN for serving files from raw.githubusercontent.com with the correct content types. FreeLegacy	0.3%
24	iScroll A high-performance JavaScript library for smooth scrolling. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.3%
25	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	0.3%

Data is based on the analysis of 21,370 websites from Iran.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.