⚡ 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 31% of websites from Iran.

Statistics based on 21K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Owl Carousel with an impressive share of 48.8%, followed by Magnific Popup with 31.9% and Google URL Shortener with 7.8%.

Owl Carousel 48.8%
Magnific Popup 31.9%
Google URL Shortener 7.8%
iLightBox 7.5%
jQuery Cookie 6.9%
jQuery Mousewheel 4.8%
Moment.js 4.6%
AngularJS 3.2%
Adobe Flash 2.5%
jQuery LazyLoad 1.5%
Alexa 1.5%
Skrollr 1.5%
ASP 1%
Picturefill 0.9%
AddThis 0.9%

🚀 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.

4. iLightBox ^(-7)
8. AngularJS ^(-11)
10. jQuery LazyLoad ^(-7)
11. Alexa ^(-14)
12. Skrollr ^(-2)
14. Picturefill ^(-1)
16. Prefix-free ^(-27)
17. Google +1 Button ^(-15)
18. SWFObject ^(-3)
19. Turbolinks ^(-7)

✨ Best Legacy Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 59 legacy technologies used on sites from Iran, 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	48.8%
2	Magnific Popup A responsive lightbox and dialog plugin for jQuery and Zepto.js. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	31.9%
3	Google URL Shortener Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated link service from Google. Legacy	7.8%
4	iLightBox A commercial jQuery lightbox plugin. $16+Legacy	7.5%
5	jQuery Cookie A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	6.9%
6	jQuery Mousewheel A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	4.8%
7	Moment.js San Francisco, California, United States An open-source JavaScript library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	4.6%
8	AngularJS Mountain View, California, United States A discontinued open-source web framework from Google that has been superseded by Angular. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	3.2%
9	Adobe Flash San Jose, California, United States A discontinued multimedia software platform for creating animations and interactive apps. Legacy	2.5%
10	jQuery LazyLoad A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.5%
11	Alexa Seattle, Washington, United States A web traffic analysis service from Amazon that was discontinued in 2022. Legacy	1.5%
12	Skrollr Standalone parallax scrolling JavaScript library for mobile (Android, iOS) and desktop in about 12k minified. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.5%
13	ASP Redmond, Washington, United States A server-side scripting language and dynamic web page engine. FreeLegacy	1%
14	Picturefill A responsive image polyfill for <picture>, srcset, sizes, and more. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.9%
15	AddThis Austin, Texas, United States A social bookmarking service that discontinued its services on May 31, 2023. FreeLegacy	0.9%
16	Prefix-free A legacy script that adds browser prefixes to CSS code when needed for old browsers. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.9%
17	Google +1 Button Mountain View, California, United States The sharing button code for the discontinued Google +1 service. Legacy	0.7%
18	SWFObject A deprecated framework for detecting the Adobe Flash Player plugin and embedding Flash files. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.6%
19	Turbolinks Chicago, Illinois, United States A JavaScript library that allows web apps to behave like a single page application. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.5%
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	0.5%
21	CentOS Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A discontinued open-source Linux distribution compatible with RHEL. Legacy	0.3%
22	Shadowbox A lightbox library for photos and videos, last released in 2014. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.3%
23	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	0.2%
24	Critters San Francisco, California, United States A deprecated Webpack plugin that inlines your app's critical CSS and lazily loads the rest. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.2%
25	iScroll A high-performance JavaScript library for smooth scrolling. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.2%

🗃️ 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 21,977 websites from Iran.
We currently track the presence of 124 legacy technologies across the web.
Of these, 59 were detected on websites from Iran.
Statistics were last calculated on August 3, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.