⚡ 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 25% of websites from Kuwait.

Statistics based on 687 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 Magnific Popup with an impressive share of 44.2%, followed by Google URL Shortener with 23.8% and jQuery Cookie with 11%.

Magnific Popup 44.2%
Google URL Shortener 23.8%
jQuery Cookie 11%
jQuery Mousewheel 6.4%
iLightBox 5.2%
AddThis 4.1%
AngularJS 2.9%
Oracle Moat 2.3%
Messenger Customer Chat 2.3%
Polymer 1.7%
StackPath 1.7%
Skrollr 1.7%
ASP 1.7%
Closure Library 1.7%
CentOS 1.7%

🚀 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. iLightBox ^(-3)
7. AngularJS ^(-10)
8. Oracle Moat ^(-28)
9. Messenger Customer Chat ^(-5)
11. StackPath ^(-36)
14. Closure Library ^(-11)
16. Google Funding Choices ^(-3)
17. YUI ^(-11)
18. Shadowbox ^(-14)
20. Prerender ^(-13)

✨ Best Legacy Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 28 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. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	44.2%
2	Google URL Shortener Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated link service from Google. Legacy	23.8%
3	jQuery Cookie A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	11%
4	jQuery Mousewheel A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	6.4%
5	iLightBox A commercial jQuery lightbox plugin. $16+Legacy	5.2%
6	AddThis Austin, Texas, United States A social bookmarking service that discontinued its services on May 31, 2023. FreeLegacy	4.1%
7	AngularJS Mountain View, California, United States A discontinued open-source web framework from Google that has been superseded by Angular. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2.9%
8	Oracle Moat Austin, Texas, United States A measurement and marketing analytics suite designed to measure media performance across digital and TV advertising campaigns. Legacy	2.3%
9	Messenger Customer Chat Menlo Park, California, United States The website chat widget from Meta that was retired in May 2024. Legacy	2.3%
10	Polymer A library for creating encapsulated, reusable web components. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.7%
11	StackPath Dallas, Texas, United States A content delivery network that shut down in March 2024. Legacy	1.7%
12	Skrollr Standalone parallax scrolling JavaScript library for mobile (Android, iOS) and desktop in about 12k minified. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.7%
13	ASP Redmond, Washington, United States A server-side scripting language and dynamic web page engine. FreeLegacy	1.7%
14	Closure Library Mountain View, California, United States A low-level JavaScript library designed for building complex and scalable web applications. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.7%
15	CentOS Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A discontinued open-source Linux distribution compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Legacy	1.7%
16	Google Funding Choices Mountain View, California, United States A messaging tool for GDPR and CCPA compliance and ad blocking recovery. Legacy	1.2%
17	YUI New York, United States A legacy, open-source JavaScript and CSS library for building interactive web applications with a focus on modular architecture and cross-browser consistency. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.2%
18	Shadowbox A lightbox library for photos and videos, last released in 2014. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.2%
19	Picturefill A responsive image polyfill for , srcset, sizes, and more. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.2%
20	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	1.2%
21	Alexa Seattle, Washington, United States A web traffic analysis service from Amazon that was discontinued in 2022. Legacy	0.6%
22	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%
23	Critters San Francisco, California, United States A deprecated Webpack plugin that inlines your app's critical CSS and lazily loads the rest. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.6%
24	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%
25	iScroll A high-performance JavaScript library for smooth scrolling. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.6%

👉 See Also

🌎 Legacy in other countries

🗃️ 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 687 websites from Kuwait.
We currently track the presence of 119 legacy technologies across the web.
Of these, 28 were detected on websites from Kuwait.
Statistics were last calculated on June 20, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.