⚡ Legacy Technologies in Romania

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.

Romania is a Southeastern European country with a population of around 19 million people.

According to our data, legacy technologies are detected on 24.1% of websites from Romania.

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

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Magnific Popup with a share of 28.7%, followed by jQuery Cookie with 17.5% and jQuery Mousewheel with 11.9%.

Magnific Popup 28.7%
jQuery Cookie 17.5%
jQuery Mousewheel 11.9%
Google URL Shortener 11.7%
AddThis 5.5%
Adobe Flash 5.2%
Messenger Customer Chat 3.7%
Facebook Like Box 3.2%
Google Webmaster Tools 3.2%
iLightBox 3%
Google Funding Choices 2.9%
CentOS 2.8%
Skrollr 2.8%
jQuery LazyLoad 2.6%
SWFObject 2.4%

🚀 Highlights

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

3. jQuery Mousewheel ^(-1)
5. AddThis ^(-1)
7. Messenger Customer Chat ^(-7)
8. Facebook Like Box ^(-12)
9. Google Webmaster Tools ^(-7)
11. Google Funding Choices ^(-8)
15. SWFObject ^(-3)
17. Cufon ^(-14)
18. Turbolinks ^(-6)
19. Google +1 Button ^(-10)

✨ Best Legacy Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 69 legacy technologies used on sites from Romania, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Magnific Popup A responsive lightbox and dialog plugin for jQuery and Zepto. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	28.7%
2	jQuery Cookie A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	17.5%
3	jQuery Mousewheel A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	11.9%
4	Google URL Shortener Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated link service from Google. Legacy	11.7%
5	AddThis Austin, Texas, United States A social bookmarking service that discontinued its services on May 31, 2023. FreeLegacy	5.5%
6	Adobe Flash San Jose, California, United States A discontinued multimedia software platform for creating animations and interactive apps. Legacy	5.2%
7	Messenger Customer Chat Menlo Park, California, United States The website chat widget from Meta that was retired in May 2024. Legacy	3.7%
8	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	3.2%
9	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	3.2%
10	iLightBox A commercial jQuery lightbox plugin. $16+Legacy	3%
11	Google Funding Choices Mountain View, California, United States A messaging tool for GDPR and CCPA compliance and ad blocking recovery. Legacy	2.9%
12	CentOS Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A discontinued open-source Linux distribution compatible with RHEL. Legacy	2.8%
13	Skrollr Standalone parallax scrolling JavaScript library for mobile (Android, iOS) and desktop in about 12k minified. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2.8%
14	jQuery LazyLoad A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2.6%
15	SWFObject A deprecated framework for detecting the Adobe Flash Player plugin and embedding Flash files. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2.4%
16	Picturefill A responsive image polyfill for , srcset, sizes, and more. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2.2%
17	Cufon A discontinued JavaScript library that performs text replacement on web pages, using the canvas element and VML to render fancy fonts. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.2%
18	Turbolinks Chicago, Illinois, United States A JavaScript library that allows web apps to behave like a single page application. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.1%
19	Google +1 Button Mountain View, California, United States The sharing button code for the discontinued Google +1 service. Legacy	1.1%
20	Google Sign-In Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated JavaScript library that has been superseded by Google Identity services for Web. FreeLegacy	1%
21	Closure Library Mountain View, California, United States A low-level JavaScript library designed for building complex and scalable web applications. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1%
22	AngularJS Mountain View, California, United States A discontinued open-source web framework from Google that has been superseded by Angular. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1%
23	ASP Redmond, Washington, United States A server-side scripting language and dynamic web page engine. FreeLegacy	0.9%
24	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	0.8%
25	Alexa Seattle, Washington, United States A web traffic analysis service from Amazon that was discontinued in 2022. Legacy	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 15,488 websites from Romania.
We currently track the presence of 117 legacy technologies across the web.
Of these, 69 were detected on websites from Romania.
Statistics were last calculated on May 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.