⚡ Legacy Technologies in Brazil

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.

Brazil is a South American country with a population of around 217 million people.

According to our data, legacy technologies are detected on 22% of websites from Brazil.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Magnific Popup with a share of 27.2%, followed by Google URL Shortener with 17.1% and jQuery Mousewheel with 9.3%.

Magnific Popup 27.2%
Google URL Shortener 17.1%
jQuery Mousewheel 9.3%
jQuery Cookie 9%
Polymer 5.3%
AddThis 5.1%
ASP 4.9%
Picturefill 4.9%
Adobe Flash 4.6%
jQuery LazyLoad 3.5%
iLightBox 2.7%
Google Funding Choices 2.7%
Skrollr 2.3%
AngularJS 2.2%
Facebook Like Box 2.1%

🚀 Highlights

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

2. Google URL Shortener ^(-1)
3. jQuery Mousewheel ^(-1)
5. Polymer ^(-3)
8. Picturefill ^(-4)
10. jQuery LazyLoad ^(-3)
12. Google Funding Choices ^(-7)
14. AngularJS ^(-3)
15. Facebook Like Box ^(-5)
16. SWFObject ^(-2)
18. Google Optimize ^(-3)

✨ Best Legacy Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 76 legacy technologies used on sites from Brazil, 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	27.2%
2	Google URL Shortener Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated link service from Google. Legacy	17.1%
3	jQuery Mousewheel A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	9.3%
4	jQuery Cookie A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	9%
5	Polymer A library for creating encapsulated, reusable web components. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	5.3%
6	AddThis Austin, Texas, United States A social bookmarking service that discontinued its services on May 31, 2023. FreeLegacy	5.1%
7	ASP Redmond, Washington, United States A server-side scripting language and dynamic web page engine. FreeLegacy	4.9%
8	Picturefill A responsive image polyfill for , srcset, sizes, and more. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	4.9%
9	Adobe Flash San Jose, California, United States A discontinued multimedia software platform for creating animations and interactive apps. Legacy	4.6%
10	jQuery LazyLoad A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	3.5%
11	iLightBox A commercial jQuery lightbox plugin. $16+Legacy	2.7%
12	Google Funding Choices Mountain View, California, United States A messaging tool for GDPR and CCPA compliance and ad blocking recovery. Legacy	2.7%
13	Skrollr Standalone parallax scrolling JavaScript library for mobile (Android, iOS) and desktop in about 12k minified. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2.3%
14	AngularJS Mountain View, California, United States A discontinued open-source web framework from Google that has been superseded by Angular. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2.2%
15	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	2.1%
16	SWFObject A deprecated framework for detecting the Adobe Flash Player plugin and embedding Flash files. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2%
17	CentOS Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A discontinued open-source Linux distribution compatible with RHEL. Legacy	1.7%
18	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	1.7%
19	Closure Library Mountain View, California, United States A low-level JavaScript library designed for building complex and scalable web applications. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.1%
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	1%
21	Lightbox for Bootstrap A lightbox module for Bootstrap that supports images, YouTube videos and galleries - built around Bootstrap's Modal plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.9%
22	Turbolinks Chicago, Illinois, United States A JavaScript library that allows web apps to behave like a single page application. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.9%
23	Messenger Customer Chat Menlo Park, California, United States The website chat widget from Meta that was retired in May 2024. Legacy	0.8%
24	Critters San Francisco, California, United States A deprecated Webpack plugin that inlines your app's critical CSS and lazily loads the rest. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.7%
25	Shadowbox A lightbox library for photos and videos, last released in 2014. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.7%

👉 See Also

🌎 Legacy in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 65,306 websites from Brazil.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.