⚡ 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 38.1% of websites from Kuwait.

Statistics based on 720 analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Owl Carousel with a substantial share of 51.8%, followed by Magnific Popup with 27.7% and Google URL Shortener with 16.8%.

Owl Carousel 51.8%
Magnific Popup 27.7%
Google URL Shortener 16.8%
jQuery Cookie 6.9%
Moment.js 6.6%
jQuery Mousewheel 4.4%
iLightBox 3.3%
AddThis 2.2%
AngularJS 1.8%
Messenger Customer Chat 1.5%
Oracle Moat 1.5%
StackPath 1.1%
Skrollr 1.1%
ASP 1.1%
Polymer 1.1%

🚀 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.

5. Moment.js ^(-1)
7. iLightBox ^(-4)
8. AddThis ^(-2)
9. AngularJS ^(-9)
10. Messenger Customer Chat ^(-6)
11. Oracle Moat ^(-29)
12. StackPath ^(-40)
19. Prerender ^(-18)
20. Google Funding Choices ^(-2)
21. Closure Library ^(-6)

✨ Best Legacy Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 36 legacy technologies used on sites from Kuwait, 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	51.8%
2	Magnific Popup Kyiv, Ukraine A responsive lightbox and dialog plugin for jQuery and Zepto.js. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	27.7%
3	Google URL Shortener Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated link service from Google. Legacy	16.8%
4	jQuery Cookie Germany A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	6.9%
5	Moment.js San Francisco, California, United States An open-source JavaScript library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	6.6%
6	jQuery Mousewheel San Francisco, California, United States A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support with delta normalization. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	4.4%
7	iLightBox A commercial jQuery lightbox plugin. $16+Legacy	3.3%
8	AddThis Austin, Texas, United States A social bookmarking service that discontinued its services on May 31, 2023. FreeLegacy	2.2%
9	AngularJS Mountain View, California, United States A discontinued open-source web framework from Google that has been superseded by Angular. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.8%
10	Messenger Customer Chat Menlo Park, California, United States The website chat widget from Meta that was retired in May 2024. Legacy	1.5%
11	Oracle Moat Austin, Texas, United States A measurement and marketing analytics suite designed to measure media performance across digital and TV advertising campaigns. Legacy	1.5%
12	StackPath Dallas, Texas, United States A content delivery network that shut down in March 2024. Legacy	1.1%
13	Skrollr Standalone parallax scrolling JavaScript library for mobile (Android, iOS) and desktop in about 12k minified. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.1%
14	ASP Redmond, Washington, United States A server-side scripting language and dynamic web page engine. FreeLegacy	1.1%
15	Polymer Mountain View, California, United States A legacy open-source JavaScript library created by Google for building components based on Web Components standards. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.1%
16	Picturefill Boston, Massachusetts, United States A responsive image polyfill for <picture>, srcset, sizes, and more. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.1%
17	CentOS Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A discontinued open-source Linux distribution compatible with RHEL. Legacy	1.1%
18	Facebook Like Menlo Park, California, United States A social plugin that allowed websites to embed a button for visitors to like and share web pages on Facebook. Legacy	0.7%
19	Prerender Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A deprecated browser hint that instructed web browsers to preload and render a web page in the background before navigation occurred. Legacy	0.7%
20	Google Funding Choices Mountain View, California, United States A messaging tool for GDPR and CCPA compliance and ad blocking recovery. Legacy	0.7%
21	Closure Library Mountain View, California, United States A low-level JavaScript library designed for building complex and scalable web applications. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.7%
22	Shadowbox A lightbox library for photos and videos, last released in 2014. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.7%
23	Cufon A discontinued JavaScript library that performs text replacement on web pages, using the canvas element and VML to render fancy fonts. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.4%
24	Adobe Flash San Jose, California, United States A discontinued multimedia software platform for creating animations and interactive apps. Legacy	0.4%
25	RawGit Portland, Oregon, United States A public CDN for serving files from raw.githubusercontent.com with the correct content types. FreeLegacy	0.4%

👉 See Also

🌎 Legacy in other countries
- Iraq
- Oman
- Qatar

🗃️ 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 720 websites from Kuwait.
We currently track the presence of 126 legacy technologies across the web.
Of these, 36 were detected on websites from Kuwait.
Statistics were last calculated on August 13, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.