⚡ Legacy Technologies in Sweden

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.

Sweden is a Northern European country with a population of over 10.5 million people.

According to our data, legacy technologies are detected on 17.5% of websites from Sweden.

Statistics based on 32K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Owl Carousel with a share of 19.1%, followed by Magnific Popup with 18% and Google URL Shortener with 11.6%.

Owl Carousel 19.1%
Magnific Popup 18%
Google URL Shortener 11.6%
jQuery Mousewheel 10.3%
jQuery Cookie 8.4%
Moment.js 6%
ASP 5.1%
Facebook Like 4.6%
AddThis 3.8%
Picturefill 3.5%
iLightBox 3.1%
Polymer 2.9%
AngularJS 2.6%
Adobe Flash 2.6%
Google Optimize 2.2%

🚀 Highlights

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

4. jQuery Mousewheel ^(-1)
7. ASP ^(-3)
10. Picturefill ^(-5)
13. AngularJS ^(-6)
15. Google Optimize ^(-9)
18. Google Webmaster Tools ^(-2)
20. Microsoft FrontPage ^(-7)
21. Oribi ^(-12)
24. RawGit ^(-6)

✨ Best Legacy Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 88 legacy technologies used on sites from Sweden, 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	19.1%
2	Magnific Popup A responsive lightbox and dialog plugin for jQuery and Zepto.js. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	18%
3	Google URL Shortener Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated link service from Google. Legacy	11.6%
4	jQuery Mousewheel A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	10.3%
5	jQuery Cookie A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	8.4%
6	Moment.js San Francisco, California, United States An open-source JavaScript library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	6%
7	ASP Redmond, Washington, United States A server-side scripting language and dynamic web page engine. FreeLegacy	5.1%
8	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	4.6%
9	AddThis Austin, Texas, United States A social bookmarking service that discontinued its services on May 31, 2023. FreeLegacy	3.8%
10	Picturefill A responsive image polyfill for <picture>, srcset, sizes, and more. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	3.5%
11	iLightBox A commercial jQuery lightbox plugin. $16+Legacy	3.1%
12	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	2.9%
13	AngularJS Mountain View, California, United States A discontinued open-source web framework from Google that has been superseded by Angular. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2.6%
14	Adobe Flash San Jose, California, United States A discontinued multimedia software platform for creating animations and interactive apps. Legacy	2.6%
15	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	2.2%
16	CentOS Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A discontinued open-source Linux distribution compatible with RHEL. Legacy	2.2%
17	Skrollr Standalone parallax scrolling JavaScript library for mobile (Android, iOS) and desktop in about 12k minified. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.8%
18	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	1.5%
19	Messenger Customer Chat Menlo Park, California, United States The website chat widget from Meta that was retired in May 2024. Legacy	1.5%
20	Microsoft FrontPage Redmond, Washington, United States A WYSIWYG HTML editor and website administration tool that was part of Microsoft Office until it was discontinued in 2003. $149Legacy	1.3%
21	Oribi Mountain View, California, United States An all-in-one marketing analytics solution acquired by LinkedIn. Legacy	1.3%
22	SWFObject A deprecated framework for detecting the Adobe Flash Player plugin and embedding Flash files. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1%
23	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	0.9%
24	RawGit Portland, Oregon, United States A public CDN for serving files from raw.githubusercontent.com with the correct content types. FreeLegacy	0.8%
25	jQuery LazyLoad A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.7%

👉 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 32,208 websites from Sweden.
We currently track the presence of 124 legacy technologies across the web.
Of these, 88 were detected on websites from Sweden.
Statistics were last calculated on August 4, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.