⚡ 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 27.1% of websites from Latvia.

Statistics based on 4K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Owl Carousel with a share of 25.4%, followed by Magnific Popup with 17.1% and jQuery Cookie with 14.5%.

Owl Carousel 25.4%
Magnific Popup 17.1%
jQuery Cookie 14.5%
Google URL Shortener 11.5%
jQuery Mousewheel 10.9%
Moment.js 6.4%
Adobe Flash 6.2%
Facebook Like 5.6%
AddThis 4%
SWFObject 3.5%
Skype 3%
CentOS 2.9%
Polymer 2.6%
Google Webmaster Tools 2.4%
Messenger Customer Chat 1.7%

🚀 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.

3. jQuery Cookie ^(-1)
10. SWFObject ^(-11)
11. Skype ^(-7)
12. CentOS ^(-1)
14. Google Webmaster Tools ^(-6)
15. Messenger Customer Chat ^(-2)
17. Turbolinks ^(-9)
18. Closure Library ^(-10)
21. Google Funding Choices ^(-1)
24. Google +1 Button ^(-8)

✨ Best Legacy Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 54 legacy technologies used on sites from Latvia, 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	25.4%
2	Magnific Popup A responsive lightbox and dialog plugin for jQuery and Zepto.js. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	17.1%
3	jQuery Cookie A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	14.5%
4	Google URL Shortener Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated link service from Google. Legacy	11.5%
5	jQuery Mousewheel A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	10.9%
6	Moment.js San Francisco, California, United States An open-source JavaScript library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	6.4%
7	Adobe Flash San Jose, California, United States A discontinued multimedia software platform for creating animations and interactive apps. Legacy	6.2%
8	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	5.6%
9	AddThis Austin, Texas, United States A social bookmarking service that discontinued its services on May 31, 2023. FreeLegacy	4%
10	SWFObject A deprecated framework for detecting the Adobe Flash Player plugin and embedding Flash files. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	3.5%
11	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%
12	CentOS Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A discontinued open-source Linux distribution compatible with RHEL. Legacy	2.9%
13	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	2.6%
14	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	2.4%
15	Messenger Customer Chat Menlo Park, California, United States The website chat widget from Meta that was retired in May 2024. Legacy	1.7%
16	Picturefill A responsive image polyfill for <picture>, srcset, sizes, and more. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.7%
17	Turbolinks Chicago, Illinois, United States A JavaScript library that allows web apps to behave like a single page application. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.5%
18	Closure Library Mountain View, California, United States A low-level JavaScript library designed for building complex and scalable web applications. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.3%
19	Skrollr Standalone parallax scrolling JavaScript library for mobile (Android, iOS) and desktop in about 12k minified. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.3%
20	AngularJS Mountain View, California, United States A discontinued open-source web framework from Google that has been superseded by Angular. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.2%
21	Google Funding Choices Mountain View, California, United States A messaging tool for GDPR and CCPA compliance and ad blocking recovery. Legacy	1%
22	jQuery LazyLoad A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1%
23	iLightBox A commercial jQuery lightbox plugin. $16+Legacy	1%
24	Google +1 Button Mountain View, California, United States The sharing button code for the discontinued Google +1 service. Legacy	1%
25	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%

👉 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 4,258 websites from Latvia.
We currently track the presence of 124 legacy technologies across the web.
Of these, 54 were detected on websites from Latvia.
Statistics were last calculated on August 4, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.