⚡ Legacy Technologies in India

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.

India is a South Asian country with a population of over 1.4 billion people.

According to our data, legacy technologies are detected on 25% of websites from India.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Magnific Popup with an impressive share of 43.4%, followed by Google URL Shortener with 15.5% and jQuery Cookie with 10.6%.

Magnific Popup 43.4%
Google URL Shortener 15.5%
jQuery Cookie 10.6%
jQuery Mousewheel 7.3%
Google Funding Choices 3.1%
Adobe Flash 3.1%
Skrollr 2.8%
Skype 2.8%
Polymer 2.6%
AngularJS 2.3%
AddThis 2.3%
ASP 2.2%
CentOS 2.1%
iLightBox 2.1%
jQuery LazyLoad 1.9%

🚀 Highlights

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

2. Google URL Shortener ^(-1)
5. Google Funding Choices ^(-14)
7. Skrollr ^(-4)
8. Skype ^(-7)
10. AngularJS ^(-7)
17. Alexa ^(-6)
18. Closure Library ^(-7)
19. Google Sign-In ^(-16)
22. Critters ^(-10)
23. RawGit ^(-4)

✨ Best Legacy Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 74 legacy technologies used on sites from India, 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	43.4%
2	Google URL Shortener Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated link service from Google. Legacy	15.5%
3	jQuery Cookie A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	10.6%
4	jQuery Mousewheel A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	7.3%
5	Google Funding Choices Mountain View, California, United States A messaging tool for GDPR and CCPA compliance and ad blocking recovery. Legacy	3.1%
6	Adobe Flash San Jose, California, United States A discontinued multimedia software platform for creating animations and interactive apps. Legacy	3.1%
7	Skrollr Standalone parallax scrolling JavaScript library for mobile (Android, iOS) and desktop in about 12k minified. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2.8%
8	Skype Redmond, Washington, United States A communications platform for voice and video calls and sending instant messages that was retired on May 5, 2025 in favor of Microsoft Teams. FreeLegacy	2.8%
9	Polymer A library for creating encapsulated, reusable web components. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2.6%
10	AngularJS Mountain View, California, United States A discontinued open-source web framework from Google that has been superseded by Angular. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2.3%
11	AddThis Austin, Texas, United States A social bookmarking service that discontinued its services on May 31, 2023. FreeLegacy	2.3%
12	ASP Redmond, Washington, United States A server-side scripting language and dynamic web page engine. FreeLegacy	2.2%
13	CentOS Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A discontinued open-source Linux distribution compatible with RHEL. Legacy	2.1%
14	iLightBox A commercial jQuery lightbox plugin. $16+Legacy	2.1%
15	jQuery LazyLoad A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.9%
16	Messenger Customer Chat Menlo Park, California, United States The website chat widget from Meta that was retired in May 2024. Legacy	1.6%
17	Alexa Seattle, Washington, United States A web traffic analysis service from Amazon that was discontinued in 2022. Legacy	1.4%
18	Closure Library Mountain View, California, United States A low-level JavaScript library designed for building complex and scalable web applications. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.3%
19	Google Sign-In Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated JavaScript library that has been superseded by Google Identity Services for Web. FreeLegacy	1%
20	Picturefill A responsive image polyfill for , srcset, sizes, and more. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1%
21	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%
22	Critters San Francisco, California, United States A deprecated Webpack plugin that inlines your app's critical CSS and lazily loads the rest. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.8%
23	RawGit Portland, Oregon, United States A public CDN for serving files from raw.githubusercontent.com with the correct content types. FreeLegacy	0.8%
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	0.8%
25	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	0.8%

👉 See Also

🌎 Legacy in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 67,209 websites from India.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.