⚡ Legacy Technologies in Saudi Arabia

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.

Saudi Arabia is a Western Asian country with a population of over 37 million people.

According to our data, legacy technologies are detected on 23.3% of websites from Saudi Arabia.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Magnific Popup with an impressive share of 39.4%, followed by Google URL Shortener with 25.9% and jQuery Cookie with 10.6%.

Magnific Popup 39.4%
Google URL Shortener 25.9%
jQuery Cookie 10.6%
jQuery Mousewheel 6.5%
AddThis 4.6%
iLightBox 4.4%
Polymer 4.3%
Critters 2.3%
Skrollr 2.1%
AngularJS 2%
Adobe Flash 1.9%
Picturefill 1.4%
Alexa 1.3%
ASP 1.2%
qTranslate-X 1.2%

🚀 Highlights

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

2. Google URL Shortener ^(-1)
5. AddThis ^(-1)
6. iLightBox ^(-3)
7. Polymer ^(-1)
8. Critters ^(-24)
9. Skrollr ^(-2)
10. AngularJS ^(-7)
13. Alexa ^(-10)
15. qTranslate-X ^(-22)
16. Oracle Moat ^(-18)

✨ Best Legacy Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 46 legacy technologies used on sites from Saudi Arabia, 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	39.4%
2	Google URL Shortener Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated link service from Google. Legacy	25.9%
3	jQuery Cookie A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	10.6%
4	jQuery Mousewheel A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	6.5%
5	AddThis Austin, Texas, United States A social bookmarking service that discontinued its services on May 31, 2023. FreeLegacy	4.6%
6	iLightBox A commercial jQuery lightbox plugin. $16+Legacy	4.4%
7	Polymer A library for creating encapsulated, reusable web components. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	4.3%
8	Critters San Francisco, California, United States A deprecated Webpack plugin that inlines your app's critical CSS and lazily loads the rest. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2.3%
9	Skrollr Standalone parallax scrolling JavaScript library for mobile (Android, iOS) and desktop in about 12k minified. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	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	2%
11	Adobe Flash San Jose, California, United States A discontinued multimedia software platform for creating animations and interactive apps. Legacy	1.9%
12	Picturefill A responsive image polyfill for , srcset, sizes, and more. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.4%
13	Alexa Seattle, Washington, United States A web traffic analysis service from Amazon that was discontinued in 2022. Legacy	1.3%
14	ASP Redmond, Washington, United States A server-side scripting language and dynamic web page engine. FreeLegacy	1.2%
15	qTranslate-X A discontinued WordPress plugin used for managing dynamic multilingual content on websites. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.2%
16	Oracle Moat Austin, Texas, United States A measurement and marketing analytics suite designed to measure media performance across digital and TV advertising campaigns. Legacy	1.1%
17	Turbolinks Chicago, Illinois, United States A JavaScript library that allows web apps to behave like a single page application. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.9%
18	RawGit Portland, Oregon, United States A public CDN for serving files from raw.githubusercontent.com with the correct content types. FreeLegacy	0.9%
19	jQuery LazyLoad A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.9%
20	Oribi Mountain View, California, United States An all-in-one marketing analytics solution acquired by LinkedIn. Legacy	0.9%
21	SWFObject A deprecated framework for detecting the Adobe Flash Player plugin and embedding Flash files. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.8%
22	Google Sign-In Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated JavaScript library that has been superseded by Google Identity Services for Web. FreeLegacy	0.7%
23	Lightbox for Bootstrap A lightbox module for Bootstrap that supports images, YouTube videos and galleries - built around Bootstrap's Modal plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.7%
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	0.6%
25	Closure Library Mountain View, California, United States A low-level JavaScript library designed for building complex and scalable web applications. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.6%

👉 See Also

🌎 Legacy in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 3,894 websites from Saudi Arabia.
Statistics were last calculated on March 20, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.