⚡ 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 25.6% of websites from Canada.

Statistics based on 72K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Owl Carousel with a share of 24.5%, followed by Magnific Popup with 18.9% and Google URL Shortener with 13.7%.

Owl Carousel 24.5%
Magnific Popup 18.9%
Google URL Shortener 13.7%
jQuery Mousewheel 10.6%
jQuery Cookie 10.2%
Moment.js 8.6%
Polymer 4.2%
AddThis 4.1%
Facebook Like 3.7%
Adobe Flash 3.4%
iLightBox 3.3%
ASP 3.1%
Skrollr 2.4%
Picturefill 1.8%
Messenger Customer Chat 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.

4. jQuery Mousewheel ^(-1)
7. Polymer ^(-5)
8. AddThis ^(-1)
13. Skrollr ^(-1)
14. Picturefill ^(-1)
15. Messenger Customer Chat ^(-2)
17. Google Webmaster Tools ^(-3)
18. AngularJS ^(-1)
19. SWFObject ^(-2)
20. Microsoft FrontPage ^(-7)

✨ Best Legacy Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 97 legacy technologies used on sites from Canada, 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	24.5%
2	Magnific Popup A responsive lightbox and dialog plugin for jQuery and Zepto.js. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	18.9%
3	Google URL Shortener Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated link service from Google. Legacy	13.7%
4	jQuery Mousewheel A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	10.6%
5	jQuery Cookie A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	10.2%
6	Moment.js San Francisco, California, United States An open-source JavaScript library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	8.6%
7	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	4.2%
8	AddThis Austin, Texas, United States A social bookmarking service that discontinued its services on May 31, 2023. FreeLegacy	4.1%
9	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	3.7%
10	Adobe Flash San Jose, California, United States A discontinued multimedia software platform for creating animations and interactive apps. Legacy	3.4%
11	iLightBox A commercial jQuery lightbox plugin. $16+Legacy	3.3%
12	ASP Redmond, Washington, United States A server-side scripting language and dynamic web page engine. FreeLegacy	3.1%
13	Skrollr Standalone parallax scrolling JavaScript library for mobile (Android, iOS) and desktop in about 12k minified. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2.4%
14	Picturefill A responsive image polyfill for <picture>, srcset, sizes, and more. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.8%
15	Messenger Customer Chat Menlo Park, California, United States The website chat widget from Meta that was retired in May 2024. Legacy	1.7%
16	CentOS Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A discontinued open-source Linux distribution compatible with RHEL. Legacy	1.6%
17	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	1.6%
18	AngularJS Mountain View, California, United States A discontinued open-source web framework from Google that has been superseded by Angular. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.4%
19	SWFObject A deprecated framework for detecting the Adobe Flash Player plugin and embedding Flash files. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1%
20	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%
21	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	0.9%
22	jQuery LazyLoad A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.8%
23	Google Funding Choices Mountain View, California, United States A messaging tool for GDPR and CCPA compliance and ad blocking recovery. Legacy	0.7%
24	Alexa Seattle, Washington, United States A web traffic analysis service from Amazon that was discontinued in 2022. Legacy	0.6%
25	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	0.6%

👉 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 72,913 websites from Canada.
We currently track the presence of 124 legacy technologies across the web.
Of these, 97 were detected on websites from Canada.
Statistics were last calculated on August 4, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.