⚡ 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 35.8% of websites from India.

Statistics based on 78K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Owl Carousel with a substantial share of 53.9%, followed by Magnific Popup with 30.3% and Google URL Shortener with 12.1%.

Owl Carousel 53.9%
Magnific Popup 30.3%
Google URL Shortener 12.1%
jQuery Cookie 6.2%
Moment.js 5.3%
jQuery Mousewheel 4.8%
Google Funding Choices 2.1%
Facebook Like 1.7%
Skrollr 1.7%
Adobe Flash 1.6%
AngularJS 1.6%
AddThis 1.4%
Skype 1.3%
ASP 1.2%
iLightBox 1.2%

🚀 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.

5. Moment.js ^(-1)
7. Google Funding Choices ^(-14)
9. Skrollr ^(-3)
11. AngularJS ^(-7)
13. Skype ^(-7)
20. Closure Library ^(-6)
21. Alexa ^(-8)
22. Critters ^(-14)
23. Google Sign-In ^(-20)

✨ Best Legacy Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 83 legacy technologies used on sites from India, 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	53.9%
2	Magnific Popup Kyiv, Ukraine A responsive lightbox and dialog plugin for jQuery and Zepto.js. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	30.3%
3	Google URL Shortener Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated link service from Google. Legacy	12.1%
4	jQuery Cookie Germany A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	6.2%
5	Moment.js San Francisco, California, United States An open-source JavaScript library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	5.3%
6	jQuery Mousewheel San Francisco, California, United States A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support with delta normalization. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	4.8%
7	Google Funding Choices Mountain View, California, United States A messaging tool for GDPR and CCPA compliance and ad blocking recovery. Legacy	2.1%
8	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	1.7%
9	Skrollr Standalone parallax scrolling JavaScript library for mobile (Android, iOS) and desktop in about 12k minified. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.7%
10	Adobe Flash San Jose, California, United States A discontinued multimedia software platform for creating animations and interactive apps. Legacy	1.6%
11	AngularJS Mountain View, California, United States A discontinued open-source web framework from Google that has been superseded by Angular. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.6%
12	AddThis Austin, Texas, United States A social bookmarking service that discontinued its services on May 31, 2023. FreeLegacy	1.4%
13	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. Free$$$Legacy	1.3%
14	ASP Redmond, Washington, United States A server-side scripting language and dynamic web page engine. FreeLegacy	1.2%
15	iLightBox A commercial jQuery lightbox plugin. $16+Legacy	1.2%
16	jQuery LazyLoad Finland A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.2%
17	CentOS Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A discontinued open-source Linux distribution compatible with RHEL. Legacy	1%
18	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%
19	Messenger Customer Chat Menlo Park, California, United States The website chat widget from Meta that was retired in May 2024. Legacy	0.9%
20	Closure Library Mountain View, California, United States A low-level JavaScript library designed for building complex and scalable web applications. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.9%
21	Alexa Seattle, Washington, United States A web traffic analysis service from Amazon that was discontinued in 2022. Legacy	0.8%
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	0.7%
23	Google Sign-In Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated JavaScript library that has been superseded by Google Identity services for Web. FreeLegacy	0.7%
24	Picturefill Boston, Massachusetts, United States A responsive image polyfill for <picture>, srcset, sizes, and more. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.7%
25	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	0.6%

👉 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 78,595 websites from India.
We currently track the presence of 130 legacy technologies across the web.
Of these, 83 were detected on websites from India.
Statistics were last calculated on September 19, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.