⚡ Legacy Technologies in Australia

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.

Australia is an Oceanian country with a population of over 27 million people.

According to our data, legacy technologies are detected on 21.5% of websites from Australia.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Magnific Popup with a share of 27.1%, followed by Google URL Shortener with 19.2% and jQuery Mousewheel with 17.9%.

Magnific Popup 27.1%
Google URL Shortener 19.2%
jQuery Mousewheel 17.9%
jQuery Cookie 9.5%
iLightBox 5%
AddThis 4.6%
Polymer 4.5%
Skrollr 4.3%
Adobe Flash 3.4%
Messenger Customer Chat 3%
Picturefill 2.2%
AngularJS 1.8%
ASP 1.7%
Google Optimize 1.5%
Google Webmaster Tools 1.3%

🚀 Highlights

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

2. Google URL Shortener ^(-1)
3. jQuery Mousewheel ^(-1)
5. iLightBox ^(-4)
7. Polymer ^(-1)
8. Skrollr ^(-3)
10. Messenger Customer Chat ^(-4)
11. Picturefill ^(-1)
12. AngularJS ^(-5)
14. Google Optimize ^(-7)
15. Google Webmaster Tools ^(-1)

✨ Best Legacy Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 80 legacy technologies used on sites from Australia, 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	27.1%
2	Google URL Shortener Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated link service from Google. Legacy	19.2%
3	jQuery Mousewheel A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	17.9%
4	jQuery Cookie A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	9.5%
5	iLightBox A commercial jQuery lightbox plugin. $16+Legacy	5%
6	AddThis Austin, Texas, United States A social bookmarking service that discontinued its services on May 31, 2023. FreeLegacy	4.6%
7	Polymer A library for creating encapsulated, reusable web components. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	4.5%
8	Skrollr Standalone parallax scrolling JavaScript library for mobile (Android, iOS) and desktop in about 12k minified. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	4.3%
9	Adobe Flash San Jose, California, United States A discontinued multimedia software platform for creating animations and interactive apps. Legacy	3.4%
10	Messenger Customer Chat Menlo Park, California, United States The website chat widget from Meta that was retired in May 2024. Legacy	3%
11	Picturefill A responsive image polyfill for , srcset, sizes, and more. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2.2%
12	AngularJS Mountain View, California, United States A discontinued open-source web framework from Google that has been superseded by Angular. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.8%
13	ASP Redmond, Washington, United States A server-side scripting language and dynamic web page engine. FreeLegacy	1.7%
14	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	1.5%
15	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	1.3%
16	jQuery LazyLoad A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.2%
17	SWFObject A deprecated framework for detecting the Adobe Flash Player plugin and embedding Flash files. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.1%
18	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	0.8%
19	CentOS Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A discontinued open-source Linux distribution compatible with RHEL. Legacy	0.8%
20	Oribi Mountain View, California, United States An all-in-one marketing analytics solution acquired by LinkedIn. Legacy	0.7%
21	Cufon A discontinued JavaScript library that performs text replacement on web pages, using the canvas element and VML to render fancy fonts. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.6%
22	RawGit Portland, Oregon, United States A public CDN for serving files from raw.githubusercontent.com with the correct content types. FreeLegacy	0.5%
23	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	0.5%
24	Salesforce Chat San Francisco, California, United States A live chat solution from Salesforce that is currently in maintenance-only mode and is scheduled to be retired in February 2026. Legacy	0.5%
25	Alexa Seattle, Washington, United States A web traffic analysis service from Amazon that was discontinued in 2022. Legacy	0.5%

👉 See Also

🌎 Legacy in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 73,682 websites from Australia.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.