⚡ 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 24.8% of websites from Kuwait.

Statistics based on 641 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 44.7%, followed by Google URL Shortener with 24.5% and jQuery Cookie with 10.7%.

Magnific Popup 44.7%
Google URL Shortener 24.5%
jQuery Cookie 10.7%
jQuery Mousewheel 6.3%
iLightBox 5.7%
AddThis 3.8%
AngularJS 3.1%
Oracle Moat 2.5%
Messenger Customer Chat 2.5%
Closure Library 1.9%
ASP 1.9%
Polymer 1.9%
StackPath 1.9%
CentOS 1.9%
Google Funding Choices 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)
5. iLightBox ^(-3)
7. AngularJS ^(-10)
8. Oracle Moat ^(-27)
9. Messenger Customer Chat ^(-5)
10. Closure Library ^(-15)
13. StackPath ^(-33)
15. Google Funding Choices ^(-4)
18. YUI ^(-10)
19. RawGit ^(-8)

✨ Best Legacy Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 26 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	44.7%
2	Google URL Shortener Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated link service from Google. Legacy	24.5%
3	jQuery Cookie A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	10.7%
4	jQuery Mousewheel A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	6.3%
5	iLightBox A commercial jQuery lightbox plugin. $16+Legacy	5.7%
6	AddThis Austin, Texas, United States A social bookmarking service that discontinued its services on May 31, 2023. FreeLegacy	3.8%
7	AngularJS Mountain View, California, United States A discontinued open-source web framework from Google that has been superseded by Angular. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	3.1%
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	2.5%
9	Messenger Customer Chat Menlo Park, California, United States The website chat widget from Meta that was retired in May 2024. Legacy	2.5%
10	Closure Library Mountain View, California, United States A low-level JavaScript library designed for building complex and scalable web applications. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.9%
11	ASP Redmond, Washington, United States A server-side scripting language and dynamic web page engine. FreeLegacy	1.9%
12	Polymer A library for creating encapsulated, reusable web components. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.9%
13	StackPath Dallas, Texas, United States A content delivery network that shut down in March 2024. Legacy	1.9%
14	CentOS Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A discontinued open-source Linux distribution compatible with RHEL. Legacy	1.9%
15	Google Funding Choices Mountain View, California, United States A messaging tool for GDPR and CCPA compliance and ad blocking recovery. Legacy	1.3%
16	Picturefill A responsive image polyfill for , srcset, sizes, and more. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.3%
17	Skrollr Standalone parallax scrolling JavaScript library for mobile (Android, iOS) and desktop in about 12k minified. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.3%
18	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	1.3%
19	RawGit Portland, Oregon, United States A public CDN for serving files from raw.githubusercontent.com with the correct content types. FreeLegacy	0.6%
20	Alexa Seattle, Washington, United States A web traffic analysis service from Amazon that was discontinued in 2022. Legacy	0.6%
21	iScroll A high-performance JavaScript library for smooth scrolling. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.6%
22	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%
23	Shadowbox A lightbox library for photos and videos, last released in 2014. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.6%
24	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%
25	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%

👉 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 641 websites from Kuwait.
We currently track the presence of 117 legacy technologies across the web.
Of these, 26 were detected on websites from Kuwait.
Statistics were last calculated on May 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.