⚡ 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 20.2% of websites from the Netherlands.

Statistics based on 101K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ 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 Owl Carousel with a share of 25.8%, followed by Magnific Popup with 19.2% and jQuery Mousewheel with 12%.

Owl Carousel 25.8%
Magnific Popup 19.2%
jQuery Mousewheel 12%
jQuery Cookie 8.3%
Google URL Shortener 8.1%
Moment.js 5.6%
AddThis 4.2%
Facebook Like 3.8%
iLightBox 3.7%
Google Webmaster Tools 3.3%
CentOS 2.8%
Adobe Flash 2.6%
Skrollr 2.5%
ASP 2.4%
Picturefill 2.2%

🚀 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.

3. jQuery Mousewheel ^(-2)
7. AddThis ^(-2)
9. iLightBox ^(-2)
10. Google Webmaster Tools ^(-10)
11. CentOS ^(-2)
13. Skrollr ^(-1)
16. Google Optimize ^(-8)
17. AngularJS ^(-2)
20. Oribi ^(-13)
23. Giropay ^(-37)

✨ Best Legacy Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 91 legacy technologies used on sites from the Netherlands, 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	25.8%
2	Magnific Popup A responsive lightbox and dialog plugin for jQuery and Zepto.js. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	19.2%
3	jQuery Mousewheel A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	12%
4	jQuery Cookie A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	8.3%
5	Google URL Shortener Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated link service from Google. Legacy	8.1%
6	Moment.js San Francisco, California, United States An open-source JavaScript library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	5.6%
7	AddThis Austin, Texas, United States A social bookmarking service that discontinued its services on May 31, 2023. FreeLegacy	4.2%
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	3.8%
9	iLightBox A commercial jQuery lightbox plugin. $16+Legacy	3.7%
10	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	3.3%
11	CentOS Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A discontinued open-source Linux distribution compatible with RHEL. Legacy	2.8%
12	Adobe Flash San Jose, California, United States A discontinued multimedia software platform for creating animations and interactive apps. Legacy	2.6%
13	Skrollr Standalone parallax scrolling JavaScript library for mobile (Android, iOS) and desktop in about 12k minified. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2.5%
14	ASP Redmond, Washington, United States A server-side scripting language and dynamic web page engine. FreeLegacy	2.4%
15	Picturefill A responsive image polyfill for <picture>, srcset, sizes, and more. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2.2%
16	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%
17	AngularJS Mountain View, California, United States A discontinued open-source web framework from Google that has been superseded by Angular. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.6%
18	jQuery LazyLoad A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.3%
19	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	1.3%
20	Oribi Mountain View, California, United States An all-in-one marketing analytics solution acquired by LinkedIn. Legacy	1.3%
21	SWFObject A deprecated framework for detecting the Adobe Flash Player plugin and embedding Flash files. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.1%
22	Google Funding Choices Mountain View, California, United States A messaging tool for GDPR and CCPA compliance and ad blocking recovery. Legacy	1.1%
23	Giropay Frankfurt, Germany A German payment method based on online banking that was discontinued on December 31, 2024. Legacy	0.9%
24	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	0.8%
25	Turbolinks Chicago, Illinois, United States A JavaScript library that allows web apps to behave like a single page application. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.8%

👉 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 101,515 websites from the Netherlands.
We currently track the presence of 124 legacy technologies across the web.
Of these, 91 were detected on websites from the Netherlands.
Statistics were last calculated on August 4, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.