⚡ Legacy Technologies in Italy

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.

Italy is a Southern European country with a population of around 59 million people.

According to our data, legacy technologies are detected on 26.2% of websites from Italy.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Magnific Popup with an impressive share of 30.3%, followed by jQuery Mousewheel with 17.8% and jQuery Cookie with 11.9%.

Magnific Popup 30.3%
jQuery Mousewheel 17.8%
jQuery Cookie 11.9%
Google URL Shortener 10.8%
ASP 8.7%
Skrollr 5.5%
iLightBox 4.8%
Adobe Flash 4.2%
AddThis 3.5%
CentOS 2.4%
jQuery LazyLoad 2.1%
Picturefill 2%
Polymer 1.6%
SWFObject 1.5%
Google Webmaster Tools 1.5%

🚀 Highlights

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

2. jQuery Mousewheel ^(-2)
5. ASP ^(-2)
6. Skrollr ^(-5)
7. iLightBox ^(-2)
11. jQuery LazyLoad ^(-2)
14. SWFObject ^(-4)
15. Google Webmaster Tools ^(-1)
16. Facebook Like Box ^(-4)
17. Google Funding Choices ^(-2)
18. Microsoft FrontPage ^(-4)

✨ Best Legacy Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 80 legacy technologies used on sites from Italy, 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	30.3%
2	jQuery Mousewheel A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	17.8%
3	jQuery Cookie A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	11.9%
4	Google URL Shortener Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated link service from Google. Legacy	10.8%
5	ASP Redmond, Washington, United States A server-side scripting language and dynamic web page engine. FreeLegacy	8.7%
6	Skrollr Standalone parallax scrolling JavaScript library for mobile (Android, iOS) and desktop in about 12k minified. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	5.5%
7	iLightBox A commercial jQuery lightbox plugin. $16+Legacy	4.8%
8	Adobe Flash San Jose, California, United States A discontinued multimedia software platform for creating animations and interactive apps. Legacy	4.2%
9	AddThis Austin, Texas, United States A social bookmarking service that discontinued its services on May 31, 2023. FreeLegacy	3.5%
10	CentOS Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A discontinued open-source Linux distribution compatible with RHEL. Legacy	2.4%
11	jQuery LazyLoad A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2.1%
12	Picturefill A responsive image polyfill for , srcset, sizes, and more. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2%
13	Polymer A library for creating encapsulated, reusable web components. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.6%
14	SWFObject A deprecated framework for detecting the Adobe Flash Player plugin and embedding Flash files. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.5%
15	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	1.5%
16	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	1.4%
17	Google Funding Choices Mountain View, California, United States A messaging tool for GDPR and CCPA compliance and ad blocking recovery. Legacy	1.4%
18	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	1.4%
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. FreeLegacy	1.4%
20	Messenger Customer Chat Menlo Park, California, United States The website chat widget from Meta that was retired in May 2024. Legacy	1.3%
21	qTranslate-X A discontinued WordPress plugin used for managing dynamic multilingual content on websites. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1%
22	AngularJS Mountain View, California, United States A discontinued open-source web framework from Google that has been superseded by Angular. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1%
23	Shadowbox A lightbox library for photos and videos, last released in 2014. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.9%
24	Alexa Seattle, Washington, United States A web traffic analysis service from Amazon that was discontinued in 2022. Legacy	0.7%
25	Google +1 Button Mountain View, California, United States The sharing button code for the discontinued Google +1 service. Legacy	0.6%

👉 See Also

🌎 Legacy in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 87,898 websites from Italy.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.