⚡ Legacy Technologies in Malta

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.

Malta is a Southern European island country with a population of around 540 thousand people.

According to our data, legacy technologies are detected on 29.8% of websites from Malta.

Statistics based on 1K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Owl Carousel with an impressive share of 33.3%, followed by Magnific Popup with 22% and jQuery Mousewheel with 14.3%.

Owl Carousel 33.3%
Magnific Popup 22%
jQuery Mousewheel 14.3%
Google URL Shortener 13.2%
jQuery Cookie 12.1%
Moment.js 8.9%
Messenger Customer Chat 6.5%
iLightBox 3.7%
AddThis 2.4%
Facebook Like 2.4%
Adobe Flash 2.2%
Google Sign-In 2.2%
Polymer 1.5%
Alexa 1.1%
Shadowbox 1.1%

🚀 Highlights

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

3. jQuery Mousewheel ^(-2)
7. Messenger Customer Chat ^(-9)
8. iLightBox ^(-3)
9. AddThis ^(-1)
12. Google Sign-In ^(-31)
13. Polymer ^(-4)
14. Alexa ^(-14)
15. Shadowbox ^(-22)
19. Google Optimize ^(-5)
20. Oracle Moat ^(-20)

✨ Best Legacy Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 45 legacy technologies used on sites from Malta, 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	33.3%
2	Magnific Popup Kyiv, Ukraine A responsive lightbox and dialog plugin for jQuery and Zepto.js. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	22%
3	jQuery Mousewheel San Francisco, California, United States A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support with delta normalization. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	14.3%
4	Google URL Shortener Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated link service from Google. Legacy	13.2%
5	jQuery Cookie Germany A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	12.1%
6	Moment.js San Francisco, California, United States An open-source JavaScript library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	8.9%
7	Messenger Customer Chat Menlo Park, California, United States The website chat widget from Meta that was retired in May 2024. Legacy	6.5%
8	iLightBox A commercial jQuery lightbox plugin. $16+Legacy	3.7%
9	AddThis Austin, Texas, United States A social bookmarking service that discontinued its services on May 31, 2023. FreeLegacy	2.4%
10	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	2.4%
11	Adobe Flash San Jose, California, United States A discontinued multimedia software platform for creating animations and interactive apps. Legacy	2.2%
12	Google Sign-In Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated JavaScript library that has been superseded by Google Identity services for Web. FreeLegacy	2.2%
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	1.5%
14	Alexa Seattle, Washington, United States A web traffic analysis service from Amazon that was discontinued in 2022. Legacy	1.1%
15	Shadowbox A lightbox library for photos and videos, last released in 2014. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.1%
16	ASP Redmond, Washington, United States A server-side scripting language and dynamic web page engine. FreeLegacy	1.1%
17	jQuery LazyLoad Finland A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.1%
18	Skrollr Standalone parallax scrolling JavaScript library for mobile (Android, iOS) and desktop in about 12k minified. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.1%
19	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	1.1%
20	Oracle Moat Austin, Texas, United States A measurement and marketing analytics suite designed to measure media performance across digital and TV advertising campaigns. Legacy	0.9%
21	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. Free$$$Legacy	0.9%
22	Critters San Francisco, California, United States A deprecated Webpack plugin that inlines your app's critical CSS and lazily loads the rest. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.7%
23	Material Design Lite Mountain View, California, United States A legacy user interface framework that implements Material Design components using plain CSS, JavaScript, and HTML without external dependencies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.7%
24	AngularJS Mountain View, California, United States A discontinued open-source web framework from Google that has been superseded by Angular. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.7%
25	CentOS Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A discontinued open-source Linux distribution compatible with RHEL. Legacy	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 1,799 websites from Malta.
We currently track the presence of 130 legacy technologies across the web.
Of these, 45 were detected on websites from Malta.
Statistics were last calculated on November 12, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.