⚡ 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 33.8% of websites from Saudi Arabia.

Statistics based on 4K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ 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 Owl Carousel with an impressive share of 46.4%, followed by Magnific Popup with 26.5% and Google URL Shortener with 18.5%.

Owl Carousel 46.4%
Magnific Popup 26.5%
Google URL Shortener 18.5%
Moment.js 8.8%
jQuery Cookie 6.7%
jQuery Mousewheel 4.5%
AddThis 2.6%
iLightBox 2.5%
Polymer 2.2%
Critters 1.6%
AngularJS 1.2%
Adobe Flash 1.1%
Skrollr 1%
ASP 0.9%
RawGit 0.9%

🚀 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.

4. Moment.js ^(-2)
7. AddThis ^(-2)
8. iLightBox ^(-3)
9. Polymer ^(-8)
10. Critters ^(-26)
11. AngularJS ^(-7)
15. RawGit ^(-17)
16. qTranslate-X ^(-28)
17. YUI ^(-17)
18. Alexa ^(-11)

✨ Best Legacy Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 52 legacy technologies used on sites from Saudi Arabia, 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	46.4%
2	Magnific Popup Kyiv, Ukraine A responsive lightbox and dialog plugin for jQuery and Zepto.js. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	26.5%
3	Google URL Shortener Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated link service from Google. Legacy	18.5%
4	Moment.js San Francisco, California, United States An open-source JavaScript library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	8.8%
5	jQuery Cookie Germany A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	6.7%
6	jQuery Mousewheel San Francisco, California, United States A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support with delta normalization. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	4.5%
7	AddThis Austin, Texas, United States A social bookmarking service that discontinued its services on May 31, 2023. FreeLegacy	2.6%
8	iLightBox A commercial jQuery lightbox plugin. $16+Legacy	2.5%
9	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	2.2%
10	Critters San Francisco, California, United States A deprecated Webpack plugin that inlines your app's critical CSS and lazily loads the rest. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.6%
11	AngularJS Mountain View, California, United States A discontinued open-source web framework from Google that has been superseded by Angular. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.2%
12	Adobe Flash San Jose, California, United States A discontinued multimedia software platform for creating animations and interactive apps. Legacy	1.1%
13	Skrollr Standalone parallax scrolling JavaScript library for mobile (Android, iOS) and desktop in about 12k minified. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1%
14	ASP Redmond, Washington, United States A server-side scripting language and dynamic web page engine. FreeLegacy	0.9%
15	RawGit Portland, Oregon, United States A public CDN for serving files from raw.githubusercontent.com with the correct content types. FreeLegacy	0.9%
16	qTranslate-X A discontinued WordPress plugin used for managing dynamic multilingual content on websites. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.8%
17	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	0.8%
18	Alexa Seattle, Washington, United States A web traffic analysis service from Amazon that was discontinued in 2022. Legacy	0.8%
19	Turbolinks Chicago, Illinois, United States A JavaScript library that allows web apps to behave like a single page application. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.7%
20	Picturefill Boston, Massachusetts, United States A responsive image polyfill for <picture>, srcset, sizes, and more. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.7%
21	Google Funding Choices Mountain View, California, United States A messaging tool for GDPR and CCPA compliance and ad blocking recovery. Legacy	0.6%
22	Oracle Moat Austin, Texas, United States A measurement and marketing analytics suite designed to measure media performance across digital and TV advertising campaigns. Legacy	0.6%
23	jQuery LazyLoad Finland A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.6%
24	Oribi Mountain View, California, United States An all-in-one marketing analytics solution acquired by LinkedIn. Legacy	0.6%
25	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%

👉 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 4,435 websites from Saudi Arabia.
We currently track the presence of 130 legacy technologies across the web.
Of these, 52 were detected on websites from Saudi Arabia.
Statistics were last calculated on September 27, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.