⚡ 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 41.1% of websites from Qatar.

Statistics based on 830 analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Owl Carousel, which dominates the market with a substantial 57.8% share.
It is followed by Magnific Popup with 25.2% and Google URL Shortener with 15.2%.

Owl Carousel 57.8%
Magnific Popup 25.2%
Google URL Shortener 15.2%
jQuery Cookie 6.5%
Moment.js 6.5%
jQuery Mousewheel 6.5%
Skrollr 2.9%
AddThis 2.9%
Adobe Flash 2.3%
iLightBox 1.8%
Messenger Customer Chat 1.8%
jQuery LazyLoad 1.2%
Polymer 1.2%
AngularJS 1.2%
SWFObject 1.2%

🚀 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.

5. Moment.js ^(-1)
7. Skrollr ^(-6)
8. AddThis ^(-2)
10. iLightBox ^(-1)
11. Messenger Customer Chat ^(-5)
12. jQuery LazyLoad ^(-5)
14. AngularJS ^(-4)
15. SWFObject ^(-6)
16. RawGit ^(-15)
17. Google Optimize ^(-8)

✨ Best Legacy Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 37 legacy technologies used on sites from Qatar, 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	57.8%
2	Magnific Popup Kyiv, Ukraine A responsive lightbox and dialog plugin for jQuery and Zepto.js. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	25.2%
3	Google URL Shortener Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated link service from Google. Legacy	15.2%
4	jQuery Cookie Germany A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	6.5%
5	Moment.js San Francisco, California, United States An open-source JavaScript library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	6.5%
6	jQuery Mousewheel San Francisco, California, United States A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support with delta normalization. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	6.5%
7	Skrollr Standalone parallax scrolling JavaScript library for mobile (Android, iOS) and desktop in about 12k minified. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2.9%
8	AddThis Austin, Texas, United States A social bookmarking service that discontinued its services on May 31, 2023. FreeLegacy	2.9%
9	Adobe Flash San Jose, California, United States A discontinued multimedia software platform for creating animations and interactive apps. Legacy	2.3%
10	iLightBox A commercial jQuery lightbox plugin. $16+Legacy	1.8%
11	Messenger Customer Chat Menlo Park, California, United States The website chat widget from Meta that was retired in May 2024. Legacy	1.8%
12	jQuery LazyLoad Finland A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.2%
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	1.2%
14	AngularJS Mountain View, California, United States A discontinued open-source web framework from Google that has been superseded by Angular. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.2%
15	SWFObject A deprecated framework for detecting the Adobe Flash Player plugin and embedding Flash files. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.2%
16	RawGit Portland, Oregon, United States A public CDN for serving files from raw.githubusercontent.com with the correct content types. FreeLegacy	0.9%
17	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	0.9%
18	Critters San Francisco, California, United States A deprecated Webpack plugin that inlines your app's critical CSS and lazily loads the rest. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.6%
19	Salesforce Chat San Francisco, California, United States A legacy live chat solution from Salesforce that was retired in February 2026. Legacy	0.6%
20	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	0.6%
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. FreeLegacy	0.6%
22	Alexa Seattle, Washington, United States A web traffic analysis service from Amazon that was discontinued in 2022. Legacy	0.6%
23	Prerender Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A deprecated browser hint that instructed web browsers to preload and render a web page in the background before navigation occurred. Legacy	0.6%
24	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	0.6%
25	Google +1 Button Mountain View, California, United States The sharing button code for the discontinued Google +1 service. Legacy	0.3%

👉 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 830 websites from Qatar.
We currently track the presence of 126 legacy technologies across the web.
Of these, 37 were detected on websites from Qatar.
Statistics were last calculated on August 13, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.