⚡ 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 25.9% of websites from Russia.

Statistics based on 109K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Owl Carousel with an impressive share of 36.3%, followed by jQuery Cookie with 31.9% and Magnific Popup with 14.9%.

Owl Carousel 36.3%
jQuery Cookie 31.9%
Magnific Popup 14.9%
jQuery Mousewheel 12.8%
Moment.js 7%
Adobe Flash 5.9%
Skype 3.1%
SWFObject 2.6%
CentOS 2.1%
AngularJS 1.9%
jQuery LazyLoad 1.8%
Google URL Shortener 1.7%
Google Webmaster Tools 1.6%
Picturefill 1.5%
Facebook Like 1.4%

🚀 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.

2. jQuery Cookie ^(-2)
4. jQuery Mousewheel ^(-1)
5. Moment.js ^(-1)
6. Adobe Flash ^(-2)
7. Skype ^(-13)
8. SWFObject ^(-14)
9. CentOS ^(-7)
10. AngularJS ^(-8)
11. jQuery LazyLoad ^(-3)
13. Google Webmaster Tools ^(-6)

✨ Best Legacy Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 82 legacy technologies used on sites from Russia, 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	36.3%
2	jQuery Cookie Germany A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	31.9%
3	Magnific Popup Kyiv, Ukraine A responsive lightbox and dialog plugin for jQuery and Zepto.js. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	14.9%
4	jQuery Mousewheel San Francisco, California, United States A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support with delta normalization. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	12.8%
5	Moment.js San Francisco, California, United States An open-source JavaScript library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	7%
6	Adobe Flash San Jose, California, United States A discontinued multimedia software platform for creating animations and interactive apps. Legacy	5.9%
7	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. Free$$$Legacy	3.1%
8	SWFObject A deprecated framework for detecting the Adobe Flash Player plugin and embedding Flash files. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2.6%
9	CentOS Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A discontinued open-source Linux distribution compatible with RHEL. Legacy	2.1%
10	AngularJS Mountain View, California, United States A discontinued open-source web framework from Google that has been superseded by Angular. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.9%
11	jQuery LazyLoad Finland A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.8%
12	Google URL Shortener Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated link service from Google. Legacy	1.7%
13	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%
14	Picturefill Boston, Massachusetts, United States A responsive image polyfill for <picture>, srcset, sizes, and more. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.5%
15	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	1.4%
16	AddThis Austin, Texas, United States A social bookmarking service that discontinued its services on May 31, 2023. FreeLegacy	1.1%
17	iLightBox A commercial jQuery lightbox plugin. $16+Legacy	0.9%
18	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	0.7%
19	ASP Redmond, Washington, United States A server-side scripting language and dynamic web page engine. FreeLegacy	0.6%
20	Shadowbox A lightbox library for photos and videos, last released in 2014. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.6%
21	Google +1 Button Mountain View, California, United States The sharing button code for the discontinued Google +1 service. Legacy	0.5%
22	Cufon A discontinued JavaScript library that performs text replacement on web pages, using the canvas element and VML to render fancy fonts. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.5%
23	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	0.5%
24	Skrollr Standalone parallax scrolling JavaScript library for mobile (Android, iOS) and desktop in about 12k minified. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.4%
25	Turbolinks Chicago, Illinois, United States A JavaScript library that allows web apps to behave like a single page application. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.4%

👉 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 109,983 websites from Russia.
We currently track the presence of 130 legacy technologies across the web.
Of these, 82 were detected on websites from Russia.
Statistics were last calculated on September 19, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.