⚡ Legacy Technologies in Qatar

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.

Qatar is a Western Asian country with a population of over 3 million people.

According to our data, legacy technologies are detected on 26.9% of websites from Qatar.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Magnific Popup with an impressive share of 40.1%, followed by Google URL Shortener with 22.5% and jQuery Cookie with 10.7%.

Magnific Popup 40.1%
Google URL Shortener 22.5%
jQuery Cookie 10.7%
jQuery Mousewheel 9.6%
AddThis 5.3%
Skrollr 4.3%
Adobe Flash 3.7%
iLightBox 3.2%
Messenger Customer Chat 2.7%
jQuery LazyLoad 2.1%
SWFObject 2.1%
Polymer 2.1%
RawGit 1.6%
AngularJS 1.6%
Google Optimize 1.1%

🚀 Highlights

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

2. Google URL Shortener ^(-1)
5. AddThis ^(-1)
6. Skrollr ^(-5)
8. iLightBox ^(-1)
9. Messenger Customer Chat ^(-5)
10. jQuery LazyLoad ^(-3)
11. SWFObject ^(-7)
13. RawGit ^(-14)
14. AngularJS ^(-3)
15. Google Optimize ^(-6)

✨ Best Legacy Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 30 legacy technologies used on sites from Qatar, 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	40.1%
2	Google URL Shortener Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated link service from Google. Legacy	22.5%
3	jQuery Cookie A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	10.7%
4	jQuery Mousewheel A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	9.6%
5	AddThis Austin, Texas, United States A social bookmarking service that discontinued its services on May 31, 2023. FreeLegacy	5.3%
6	Skrollr Standalone parallax scrolling JavaScript library for mobile (Android, iOS) and desktop in about 12k minified. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	4.3%
7	Adobe Flash San Jose, California, United States A discontinued multimedia software platform for creating animations and interactive apps. Legacy	3.7%
8	iLightBox A commercial jQuery lightbox plugin. $16+Legacy	3.2%
9	Messenger Customer Chat Menlo Park, California, United States The website chat widget from Meta that was retired in May 2024. Legacy	2.7%
10	jQuery LazyLoad A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2.1%
11	SWFObject A deprecated framework for detecting the Adobe Flash Player plugin and embedding Flash files. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2.1%
12	Polymer A library for creating encapsulated, reusable web components. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2.1%
13	RawGit Portland, Oregon, United States A public CDN for serving files from raw.githubusercontent.com with the correct content types. FreeLegacy	1.6%
14	AngularJS Mountain View, California, United States A discontinued open-source web framework from Google that has been superseded by Angular. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.6%
15	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%
16	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	1.1%
17	Cloudflare Apps San Francisco, California, United States A deprecated service that allowed the installation of third-party scripts/plugins on a website with a single click. Legacy	1.1%
18	Edgio Phoenix, Arizona, United States A global multi-tenant CDN that delivered web traffic for many large video streaming customers until it went bankrupt in 2024. Legacy	0.5%
19	Google +1 Button Mountain View, California, United States The sharing button code for the discontinued Google +1 service. Legacy	0.5%
20	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	0.5%
21	Prefix-free A legacy script that adds browser prefixes to CSS code when needed for old browsers. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.5%
22	Closure Library Mountain View, California, United States A low-level JavaScript library designed for building complex and scalable web applications. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.5%
23	Critters San Francisco, California, United States A deprecated Webpack plugin that inlines your app's critical CSS and lazily loads the rest. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.5%
24	Alexa Seattle, Washington, United States A web traffic analysis service from Amazon that was discontinued in 2022. Legacy	0.5%
25	Google Funding Choices Mountain View, California, United States A messaging tool for GDPR and CCPA compliance and ad blocking recovery. Legacy	0.5%

👉 See Also

🌎 Legacy in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 696 websites from Qatar.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.