⚡ Legacy Technologies in Latvia

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.

Latvia is a Northern European country with a population of around 1.9 million people.

According to our data, legacy technologies are detected on 21.4% of websites from Latvia.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Magnific Popup with a share of 20.9%, followed by jQuery Cookie with 18.9% and Google URL Shortener with 13.8%.

Magnific Popup 20.9%
jQuery Cookie 18.9%
Google URL Shortener 13.8%
jQuery Mousewheel 13.3%
Adobe Flash 7.8%
AddThis 4.5%
SWFObject 4%
CentOS 3.8%
Polymer 3.7%
Skype 3.4%
Google Webmaster Tools 2.9%
Messenger Customer Chat 2.3%
Picturefill 2.3%
Turbolinks 1.8%
AngularJS 1.8%

🚀 Highlights

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

7. SWFObject ^(-11)
8. CentOS ^(-2)
10. Skype ^(-5)
11. Google Webmaster Tools ^(-5)
12. Messenger Customer Chat ^(-2)
14. Turbolinks ^(-10)
15. AngularJS ^(-2)
16. Closure Library ^(-9)
18. Google +1 Button ^(-10)
19. Facebook Like Box ^(-1)

✨ Best Legacy Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 48 legacy technologies used on sites from Latvia, 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	20.9%
2	jQuery Cookie A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	18.9%
3	Google URL Shortener Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated link service from Google. Legacy	13.8%
4	jQuery Mousewheel A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	13.3%
5	Adobe Flash San Jose, California, United States A discontinued multimedia software platform for creating animations and interactive apps. Legacy	7.8%
6	AddThis Austin, Texas, United States A social bookmarking service that discontinued its services on May 31, 2023. FreeLegacy	4.5%
7	SWFObject A deprecated framework for detecting the Adobe Flash Player plugin and embedding Flash files. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	4%
8	CentOS Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A discontinued open-source Linux distribution compatible with RHEL. Legacy	3.8%
9	Polymer A library for creating encapsulated, reusable web components. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	3.7%
10	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	3.4%
11	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	2.9%
12	Messenger Customer Chat Menlo Park, California, United States The website chat widget from Meta that was retired in May 2024. Legacy	2.3%
13	Picturefill A responsive image polyfill for , srcset, sizes, and more. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2.3%
14	Turbolinks Chicago, Illinois, United States A JavaScript library that allows web apps to behave like a single page application. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.8%
15	AngularJS Mountain View, California, United States A discontinued open-source web framework from Google that has been superseded by Angular. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.8%
16	Closure Library Mountain View, California, United States A low-level JavaScript library designed for building complex and scalable web applications. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.7%
17	Skrollr Standalone parallax scrolling JavaScript library for mobile (Android, iOS) and desktop in about 12k minified. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.6%
18	Google +1 Button Mountain View, California, United States The sharing button code for the discontinued Google +1 service. Legacy	1.5%
19	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	1.3%
20	jQuery LazyLoad A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.3%
21	iLightBox A commercial jQuery lightbox plugin. $16+Legacy	1.2%
22	Google Funding Choices Mountain View, California, United States A messaging tool for GDPR and CCPA compliance and ad blocking recovery. Legacy	1.2%
23	qTranslate-X A discontinued WordPress plugin used for managing dynamic multilingual content on websites. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1%
24	Google Optimize Mountain View, California, United States A free website optimization tool integrated with Google Ads that enabled A/B, multivariate, and redirect landing page testing. Legacy	1%
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	1%

👉 See Also

🌎 Legacy in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 3,834 websites from Latvia.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.