⚡ Legacy Technologies in Russia

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.

Russia is a Eurasian country with a population of around 144 million people.

According to our data, legacy technologies are detected on 18.7% of websites from Russia.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is jQuery Cookie with an impressive share of 37.3%, followed by Magnific Popup with 19.1% and jQuery Mousewheel with 16.6%.

jQuery Cookie 37.3%
Magnific Popup 19.1%
jQuery Mousewheel 16.6%
Adobe Flash 9.7%
Skype 5.7%
SWFObject 4.2%
CentOS 3.1%
AngularJS 2.6%
jQuery LazyLoad 2.4%
Google Webmaster Tools 2.3%
Picturefill 2.1%
Google URL Shortener 1.9%
AddThis 1.9%
iLightBox 1.3%
ASP 0.9%

🚀 Highlights

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

1. jQuery Cookie ^(-1)
3. jQuery Mousewheel ^(-1)
4. Adobe Flash ^(-1)
5. Skype ^(-10)
6. SWFObject ^(-12)
7. CentOS ^(-3)
8. AngularJS ^(-9)
9. jQuery LazyLoad ^(-4)
10. Google Webmaster Tools ^(-6)
11. Picturefill ^(-1)

✨ Best Legacy Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 79 legacy technologies used on sites from Russia, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	jQuery Cookie A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	37.3%
2	Magnific Popup A responsive lightbox and dialog plugin for jQuery and Zepto.js. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	19.1%
3	jQuery Mousewheel A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	16.6%
4	Adobe Flash San Jose, California, United States A discontinued multimedia software platform for creating animations and interactive apps. Legacy	9.7%
5	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	5.7%
6	SWFObject A deprecated framework for detecting the Adobe Flash Player plugin and embedding Flash files. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	4.2%
7	CentOS Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A discontinued open-source Linux distribution compatible with RHEL. Legacy	3.1%
8	AngularJS Mountain View, California, United States A discontinued open-source web framework from Google that has been superseded by Angular. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2.6%
9	jQuery LazyLoad A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2.4%
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	2.3%
11	Picturefill A responsive image polyfill for , srcset, sizes, and more. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2.1%
12	Google URL Shortener Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated link service from Google. Legacy	1.9%
13	AddThis Austin, Texas, United States A social bookmarking service that discontinued its services on May 31, 2023. FreeLegacy	1.9%
14	iLightBox A commercial jQuery lightbox plugin. $16+Legacy	1.3%
15	ASP Redmond, Washington, United States A server-side scripting language and dynamic web page engine. FreeLegacy	0.9%
16	Cufon A discontinued JavaScript library that performs text replacement on web pages, using the canvas element and VML to render fancy fonts. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.8%
17	Shadowbox A lightbox library for photos and videos, last released in 2014. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.8%
18	Google +1 Button Mountain View, California, United States The sharing button code for the discontinued Google +1 service. Legacy	0.8%
19	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	0.7%
20	Skrollr Standalone parallax scrolling JavaScript library for mobile (Android, iOS) and desktop in about 12k minified. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.7%
21	Turbolinks Chicago, Illinois, United States A JavaScript library that allows web apps to behave like a single page application. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.6%
22	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	0.4%
23	RawGit Portland, Oregon, United States A public CDN for serving files from raw.githubusercontent.com with the correct content types. FreeLegacy	0.4%
24	iScroll A high-performance JavaScript library for smooth scrolling. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.4%
25	Lightbox for Bootstrap A lightbox module for Bootstrap that supports images, YouTube videos and galleries - built around Bootstrap's Modal plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.4%

👉 See Also

🌎 Legacy in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 90,449 websites from Russia.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.