⚡ Legacy Technologies in Kuwait

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.

Kuwait is a Western Asian country with a population of over 4.3 million people.

According to our data, legacy technologies are detected on 24.4% of websites from Kuwait.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Magnific Popup with an impressive share of 44.8%, followed by Google URL Shortener with 25.3% and jQuery Cookie with 11%.

Magnific Popup 44.8%
Google URL Shortener 25.3%
jQuery Cookie 11%
iLightBox 5.8%
jQuery Mousewheel 5.2%
AddThis 3.2%
Messenger Customer Chat 2.6%
AngularJS 2.6%
Closure Library 1.9%
ASP 1.9%
Polymer 1.9%
StackPath 1.9%
CentOS 1.9%
Oracle Moat 1.9%
Picturefill 1.3%

🚀 Highlights

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

2. Google URL Shortener ^(-1)
4. iLightBox ^(-5)
7. Messenger Customer Chat ^(-7)
8. AngularJS ^(-9)
9. Closure Library ^(-16)
12. StackPath ^(-33)
14. Oracle Moat ^(-20)
17. Google Funding Choices ^(-2)
18. RawGit ^(-9)
19. Alexa ^(-4)

✨ Best Legacy Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 25 legacy technologies used on sites from Kuwait, 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	44.8%
2	Google URL Shortener Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated link service from Google. Legacy	25.3%
3	jQuery Cookie A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	11%
4	iLightBox A commercial jQuery lightbox plugin. $16+Legacy	5.8%
5	jQuery Mousewheel A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	5.2%
6	AddThis Austin, Texas, United States A social bookmarking service that discontinued its services on May 31, 2023. FreeLegacy	3.2%
7	Messenger Customer Chat Menlo Park, California, United States The website chat widget from Meta that was retired in May 2024. Legacy	2.6%
8	AngularJS Mountain View, California, United States A discontinued open-source web framework from Google that has been superseded by Angular. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2.6%
9	Closure Library Mountain View, California, United States A low-level JavaScript library designed for building complex and scalable web applications. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.9%
10	ASP Redmond, Washington, United States A server-side scripting language and dynamic web page engine. FreeLegacy	1.9%
11	Polymer A library for creating encapsulated, reusable web components. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.9%
12	StackPath Dallas, Texas, United States A content delivery network that shut down in March 2024. Legacy	1.9%
13	CentOS Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A discontinued open-source Linux distribution compatible with RHEL. Legacy	1.9%
14	Oracle Moat Austin, Texas, United States A measurement and marketing analytics suite designed to measure media performance across digital and TV advertising campaigns. Legacy	1.9%
15	Picturefill A responsive image polyfill for , srcset, sizes, and more. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.3%
16	Skrollr Standalone parallax scrolling JavaScript library for mobile (Android, iOS) and desktop in about 12k minified. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.3%
17	Google Funding Choices Mountain View, California, United States A messaging tool for GDPR and CCPA compliance and ad blocking recovery. Legacy	1.3%
18	RawGit Portland, Oregon, United States A public CDN for serving files from raw.githubusercontent.com with the correct content types. FreeLegacy	0.6%
19	Alexa Seattle, Washington, United States A web traffic analysis service from Amazon that was discontinued in 2022. Legacy	0.6%
20	iScroll A high-performance JavaScript library for smooth scrolling. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.6%
21	Lightbox for Bootstrap A lightbox module for Bootstrap that supports images, YouTube videos and galleries - built around Bootstrap's Modal plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.6%
22	Shadowbox A lightbox library for photos and videos, last released in 2014. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.6%
23	Salesforce Chat San Francisco, California, United States A live chat solution from Salesforce that is currently in maintenance-only mode and is scheduled to be retired in February 2026. Legacy	0.6%
24	Google Sign-In Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated JavaScript library that has been superseded by Google Identity Services for Web. FreeLegacy	0.6%
25	Cufon A discontinued JavaScript library that performs text replacement on web pages, using the canvas element and VML to render fancy fonts. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.6%

👉 See Also

🌎 Legacy in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 631 websites from Kuwait.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.