⚡ 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 24.8% of websites from Australia.

Statistics based on 81K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Owl Carousel with a share of 27.2%, followed by Magnific Popup with 22.7% and Google URL Shortener with 18.7%.

Owl Carousel 27.2%
Magnific Popup 22.7%
Google URL Shortener 18.7%
jQuery Mousewheel 13%
Moment.js 7.9%
jQuery Cookie 6.9%
iLightBox 3.5%
Skrollr 3%
AddThis 3%
Facebook Like 2.6%
Adobe Flash 2.2%
Messenger Customer Chat 1.9%
Polymer 1.8%
Picturefill 1.6%
AngularJS 1.4%

🚀 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.

4. jQuery Mousewheel ^(-1)
5. Moment.js ^(-1)
7. iLightBox ^(-4)
8. Skrollr ^(-4)
9. AddThis ^(-1)
12. Messenger Customer Chat ^(-3)
13. Polymer ^(-4)
15. AngularJS ^(-3)
16. Microsoft Invest ^(-7)
17. Google Optimize ^(-7)

✨ Best Legacy Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 95 legacy technologies used on sites from Australia, 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	27.2%
2	Magnific Popup Kyiv, Ukraine A responsive lightbox and dialog plugin for jQuery and Zepto.js. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	22.7%
3	Google URL Shortener Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated link service from Google. Legacy	18.7%
4	jQuery Mousewheel San Francisco, California, United States A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support with delta normalization. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	13%
5	Moment.js San Francisco, California, United States An open-source JavaScript library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	7.9%
6	jQuery Cookie Germany A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	6.9%
7	iLightBox A commercial jQuery lightbox plugin. $16+Legacy	3.5%
8	Skrollr Standalone parallax scrolling JavaScript library for mobile (Android, iOS) and desktop in about 12k minified. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	3%
9	AddThis Austin, Texas, United States A social bookmarking service that discontinued its services on May 31, 2023. FreeLegacy	3%
10	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	2.6%
11	Adobe Flash San Jose, California, United States A discontinued multimedia software platform for creating animations and interactive apps. Legacy	2.2%
12	Messenger Customer Chat Menlo Park, California, United States The website chat widget from Meta that was retired in May 2024. Legacy	1.9%
13	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	1.8%
14	Picturefill Boston, Massachusetts, United States A responsive image polyfill for <picture>, srcset, sizes, and more. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.6%
15	AngularJS Mountain View, California, United States A discontinued open-source web framework from Google that has been superseded by Angular. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.4%
16	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	1.2%
17	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	1.2%
18	ASP Redmond, Washington, United States A server-side scripting language and dynamic web page engine. FreeLegacy	1.2%
19	Wirecard Aschheim, Bavaria, Germany An insolvent German payment processor and financial services provider whose executives have been arrested. Legacy	1%
20	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	0.9%
21	jQuery LazyLoad Finland A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.8%
22	Oribi Mountain View, California, United States An all-in-one marketing analytics solution acquired by LinkedIn. Legacy	0.7%
23	SWFObject A deprecated framework for detecting the Adobe Flash Player plugin and embedding Flash files. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.6%
24	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	0.5%
25	Salesforce Chat San Francisco, California, United States A legacy live chat solution from Salesforce that was retired in February 2026. 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 81,896 websites from Australia.
We currently track the presence of 130 legacy technologies across the web.
Of these, 95 were detected on websites from Australia.
Statistics were last calculated on September 18, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.