⚡ Legacy Technologies in Canada

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.

Canada is a North American country with a population of over 40 million people.

According to our data, legacy technologies are detected on 20.3% of websites from Canada.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Magnific Popup with a share of 23.5%, followed by Google URL Shortener with 16.4% and jQuery Mousewheel with 13.2%.

Magnific Popup 23.5%
Google URL Shortener 16.4%
jQuery Mousewheel 13.2%
jQuery Cookie 12.6%
Polymer 5.7%
AddThis 5.2%
Adobe Flash 4.4%
iLightBox 4%
ASP 3.9%
Skrollr 3.1%
Messenger Customer Chat 2.3%
Picturefill 2.3%
CentOS 2.1%
Google Webmaster Tools 2.1%
AngularJS 1.7%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top technologies that are more popular in Canada 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. iLightBox ^(-1)
10. Skrollr ^(-1)
11. Messenger Customer Chat ^(-3)
14. Google Webmaster Tools ^(-2)
15. AngularJS ^(-2)
16. SWFObject ^(-2)
17. Microsoft FrontPage ^(-5)

✨ Best Legacy Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 88 legacy technologies used on sites from Canada, 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	23.5%
2	Google URL Shortener Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated link service from Google. Legacy	16.4%
3	jQuery Mousewheel A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	13.2%
4	jQuery Cookie A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	12.6%
5	Polymer A library for creating encapsulated, reusable web components. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	5.7%
6	AddThis Austin, Texas, United States A social bookmarking service that discontinued its services on May 31, 2023. FreeLegacy	5.2%
7	Adobe Flash San Jose, California, United States A discontinued multimedia software platform for creating animations and interactive apps. Legacy	4.4%
8	iLightBox A commercial jQuery lightbox plugin. $16+Legacy	4%
9	ASP Redmond, Washington, United States A server-side scripting language and dynamic web page engine. FreeLegacy	3.9%
10	Skrollr Standalone parallax scrolling JavaScript library for mobile (Android, iOS) and desktop in about 12k minified. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	3.1%
11	Messenger Customer Chat Menlo Park, California, United States The website chat widget from Meta that was retired in May 2024. Legacy	2.3%
12	Picturefill A responsive image polyfill for , srcset, sizes, and more. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2.3%
13	CentOS Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A discontinued open-source Linux distribution compatible with RHEL. Legacy	2.1%
14	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	2.1%
15	AngularJS Mountain View, California, United States A discontinued open-source web framework from Google that has been superseded by Angular. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.7%
16	SWFObject A deprecated framework for detecting the Adobe Flash Player plugin and embedding Flash files. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.3%
17	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%
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	1.2%
19	jQuery LazyLoad A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1%
20	Google Funding Choices Mountain View, California, United States A messaging tool for GDPR and CCPA compliance and ad blocking recovery. Legacy	0.9%
21	Alexa Seattle, Washington, United States A web traffic analysis service from Amazon that was discontinued in 2022. Legacy	0.8%
22	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%
23	Google +1 Button Mountain View, California, United States The sharing button code for the discontinued Google +1 service. Legacy	0.7%
24	Turbolinks Chicago, Illinois, United States A JavaScript library that allows web apps to behave like a single page application. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.7%
25	Oribi Mountain View, California, United States An all-in-one marketing analytics solution acquired by LinkedIn. Legacy	0.6%

👉 See Also

🌎 Legacy in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 66,600 websites from Canada.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.