⚡ Legacy Technologies in El Salvador

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.

El Salvador is a Central American country with a population of over 6.3 million people.

According to our data, legacy technologies are detected on 29.1% of websites from El Salvador.

Statistics based on 649 analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Owl Carousel with an impressive share of 35.4%, followed by Magnific Popup with 22.8% and Google URL Shortener with 12.2%.

Owl Carousel 35.4%
Magnific Popup 22.8%
Google URL Shortener 12.2%
jQuery Mousewheel 9.5%
Messenger Customer Chat 9%
Moment.js 7.9%
jQuery Cookie 5.8%
Google Optimize 4.2%
AddThis 3.7%
Turbolinks 3.2%
RawGit 3.2%
iLightBox 2.6%
Facebook Like 2.1%
Closure Library 2.1%
Adobe Flash 1.6%

🚀 Highlights

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

4. jQuery Mousewheel ^(-1)
5. Messenger Customer Chat ^(-10)
8. Google Optimize ^(-16)
9. AddThis ^(-1)
10. Turbolinks ^(-17)
11. RawGit ^(-21)
14. Closure Library ^(-12)
16. YUI ^(-18)
17. Facebook Like Box ^(-8)
20. Wirecard ^(-9)

✨ Best Legacy Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 34 legacy technologies used on sites from El Salvador, 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	35.4%
2	Magnific Popup Kyiv, Ukraine A responsive lightbox and dialog plugin for jQuery and Zepto.js. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	22.8%
3	Google URL Shortener Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated link service from Google. Legacy	12.2%
4	jQuery Mousewheel San Francisco, California, United States A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support with delta normalization. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	9.5%
5	Messenger Customer Chat Menlo Park, California, United States The website chat widget from Meta that was retired in May 2024. Legacy	9%
6	Moment.js San Francisco, California, United States An open-source JavaScript library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	7.9%
7	jQuery Cookie Germany A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	5.8%
8	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	4.2%
9	AddThis Austin, Texas, United States A social bookmarking service that discontinued its services on May 31, 2023. FreeLegacy	3.7%
10	Turbolinks Chicago, Illinois, United States A JavaScript library that allows web apps to behave like a single page application. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	3.2%
11	RawGit Portland, Oregon, United States A public CDN for serving files from raw.githubusercontent.com with the correct content types. FreeLegacy	3.2%
12	iLightBox A commercial jQuery lightbox plugin. $16+Legacy	2.6%
13	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	2.1%
14	Closure Library Mountain View, California, United States A low-level JavaScript library designed for building complex and scalable web applications. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2.1%
15	Adobe Flash San Jose, California, United States A discontinued multimedia software platform for creating animations and interactive apps. Legacy	1.6%
16	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	1.6%
17	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	1.6%
18	Skrollr Standalone parallax scrolling JavaScript library for mobile (Android, iOS) and desktop in about 12k minified. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.6%
19	jQuery LazyLoad Finland A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.6%
20	Wirecard Aschheim, Bavaria, Germany An insolvent German payment processor and financial services provider whose executives have been arrested. Legacy	1.1%
21	J2Store Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India An open-source e-commerce extension for Joomla that is no longer maintained. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.1%
22	Microsoft Invest Redmond, Washington, United States A demand-side ad management platform created after Microsoft's acquisition of Xandr to facilitate programmatic media buying. Legacy	1.1%
23	SWFObject A deprecated framework for detecting the Adobe Flash Player plugin and embedding Flash files. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.1%
24	AngularJS Mountain View, California, United States A discontinued open-source web framework from Google that has been superseded by Angular. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.1%
25	Picturefill Boston, Massachusetts, United States A responsive image polyfill for <picture>, srcset, sizes, and more. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.1%

👉 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 649 websites from El Salvador.
We currently track the presence of 129 legacy technologies across the web.
Of these, 34 were detected on websites from El Salvador.
Statistics were last calculated on September 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.