⚡ Legacy Technologies in Norway

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.

Norway is a Northern European country with a population of over 5.5 million people.

According to our data, legacy technologies are detected on 15.9% of websites from Norway.

Statistics based on 15K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Magnific Popup with a share of 20.1%, followed by Google URL Shortener with 14.9% and jQuery Cookie with 14.5%.

Magnific Popup 20.1%
Google URL Shortener 14.9%
jQuery Cookie 14.5%
jQuery Mousewheel 11.5%
AngularJS 5%
Polymer 4.9%
ASP 4.1%
Messenger Customer Chat 3.5%
Picturefill 3.4%
Adobe Flash 3.2%
iLightBox 2.6%
Google Optimize 2.5%
AddThis 2.4%
Skrollr 2.4%
Other 5%

🚀 Highlights

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

2. Google URL Shortener ^(-1)
5. AngularJS ^(-12)
6. Polymer ^(-3)
8. Messenger Customer Chat ^(-6)
9. Picturefill ^(-3)
12. Google Optimize ^(-9)
15. Microsoft FrontPage ^(-8)
16. Facebook Like Box ^(-4)
20. Oribi ^(-10)
21. YUI ^(-7)

✨ Best Legacy Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 63 legacy technologies used on sites from Norway, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Magnific Popup A responsive lightbox and dialog plugin for jQuery and Zepto. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	20.1%
2	Google URL Shortener Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated link service from Google. Legacy	14.9%
3	jQuery Cookie A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	14.5%
4	jQuery Mousewheel A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	11.5%
5	AngularJS Mountain View, California, United States A discontinued open-source web framework from Google that has been superseded by Angular. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	5%
6	Polymer A library for creating encapsulated, reusable web components. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	4.9%
7	ASP Redmond, Washington, United States A server-side scripting language and dynamic web page engine. FreeLegacy	4.1%
8	Messenger Customer Chat Menlo Park, California, United States The website chat widget from Meta that was retired in May 2024. Legacy	3.5%
9	Picturefill A responsive image polyfill for , srcset, sizes, and more. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	3.4%
10	Adobe Flash San Jose, California, United States A discontinued multimedia software platform for creating animations and interactive apps. Legacy	3.2%
11	iLightBox A commercial jQuery lightbox plugin. $16+Legacy	2.6%
12	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	2.5%
13	AddThis Austin, Texas, United States A social bookmarking service that discontinued its services on May 31, 2023. FreeLegacy	2.4%
14	Skrollr Standalone parallax scrolling JavaScript library for mobile (Android, iOS) and desktop in about 12k minified. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2.4%
15	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	2%
16	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	1.8%
17	CentOS Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A discontinued open-source Linux distribution compatible with RHEL. Legacy	1.6%
18	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	1.6%
19	SWFObject A deprecated framework for detecting the Adobe Flash Player plugin and embedding Flash files. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.5%
20	Oribi Mountain View, California, United States An all-in-one marketing analytics solution acquired by LinkedIn. Legacy	1.5%
21	YUI New York, United States A legacy, open-source JavaScript and CSS library for building interactive web applications with a focus on modular architecture and cross-browser consistency. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1%
22	jQuery LazyLoad A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1%
23	Closure Library Mountain View, California, United States A low-level JavaScript library designed for building complex and scalable web applications. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.9%
24	Google Funding Choices Mountain View, California, United States A messaging tool for GDPR and CCPA compliance and ad blocking recovery. Legacy	0.8%
25	Lightbox for Bootstrap A lightbox module for Bootstrap that supports images, YouTube videos and galleries - built around Bootstrap's Modal plugin. 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 15,647 websites from Norway.
We currently track the presence of 117 legacy technologies across the web.
Of these, 63 were detected on websites from Norway.
Statistics were last calculated on May 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.