⚡ Legacy Technologies in the Netherlands

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.

The Netherlands is a Western European country with a population of over 17.8 million people.

According to our data, legacy technologies are detected on 15.8% of websites from the Netherlands.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Magnific Popup with a share of 24.6%, followed by jQuery Mousewheel with 15.5% and jQuery Cookie with 10.7%.

Magnific Popup 24.6%
jQuery Mousewheel 15.5%
jQuery Cookie 10.7%
Google URL Shortener 10%
AddThis 5.4%
iLightBox 4.8%
Google Webmaster Tools 4.2%
CentOS 3.6%
Adobe Flash 3.5%
Skrollr 3.3%
ASP 3.1%
Picturefill 2.8%
Google Optimize 2.6%
AngularJS 2%
Other 3.9%

🚀 Highlights

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

2. jQuery Mousewheel ^(-2)
5. AddThis ^(-1)
6. iLightBox ^(-3)
7. Google Webmaster Tools ^(-9)
8. CentOS ^(-2)
10. Skrollr ^(-1)
13. Google Optimize ^(-8)
14. AngularJS ^(-3)
17. Oribi ^(-13)
20. Microsoft FrontPage ^(-2)

✨ Best Legacy Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 85 legacy technologies used on sites from the Netherlands, 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	24.6%
2	jQuery Mousewheel A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	15.5%
3	jQuery Cookie A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	10.7%
4	Google URL Shortener Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated link service from Google. Legacy	10%
5	AddThis Austin, Texas, United States A social bookmarking service that discontinued its services on May 31, 2023. FreeLegacy	5.4%
6	iLightBox A commercial jQuery lightbox plugin. $16+Legacy	4.8%
7	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	4.2%
8	CentOS Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A discontinued open-source Linux distribution compatible with RHEL. Legacy	3.6%
9	Adobe Flash San Jose, California, United States A discontinued multimedia software platform for creating animations and interactive apps. Legacy	3.5%
10	Skrollr Standalone parallax scrolling JavaScript library for mobile (Android, iOS) and desktop in about 12k minified. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	3.3%
11	ASP Redmond, Washington, United States A server-side scripting language and dynamic web page engine. FreeLegacy	3.1%
12	Picturefill A responsive image polyfill for , srcset, sizes, and more. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2.8%
13	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	2.6%
14	AngularJS Mountain View, California, United States A discontinued open-source web framework from Google that has been superseded by Angular. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2%
15	Polymer A library for creating encapsulated, reusable web components. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.8%
16	jQuery LazyLoad A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.7%
17	Oribi Mountain View, California, United States An all-in-one marketing analytics solution acquired by LinkedIn. Legacy	1.7%
18	SWFObject A deprecated framework for detecting the Adobe Flash Player plugin and embedding Flash files. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.4%
19	Google Funding Choices Mountain View, California, United States A messaging tool for GDPR and CCPA compliance and ad blocking recovery. Legacy	1.3%
20	Microsoft FrontPage Redmond, Washington, United States A WYSIWYG HTML editor and website administration tool that was part of Microsoft Office until it was discontinued in 2003. $149Legacy	1.1%
21	Giropay Frankfurt, Germany A German payment method based on online banking that was discontinued on December 31, 2024. Legacy	1.1%
22	Turbolinks Chicago, Illinois, United States A JavaScript library that allows web apps to behave like a single page application. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1%
23	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	1%
24	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%
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	0.8%

👉 See Also

🌎 Legacy in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 95,839 websites from the Netherlands.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.