⚡ Legacy Technologies in Kenya

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.

Kenya is an East African country with a population of over 55 million people.

According to our data, legacy technologies are detected on 38.1% of websites from Kenya.

Statistics based on 2K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Owl Carousel with an impressive share of 46.5%, followed by Magnific Popup with 35.1% and Moment.js with 9.5%.

Owl Carousel 46.5%
Magnific Popup 35.1%
Moment.js 9.5%
jQuery Mousewheel 9.5%
jQuery Cookie 8.8%
Google URL Shortener 8.6%
Skrollr 4.1%
iLightBox 2.3%
Google Funding Choices 2.3%
Facebook Like 2.2%
Polymer 1.5%
AddThis 1.5%
Adobe Flash 1.5%
Closure Library 1.4%
jQuery LazyLoad 1.1%

🚀 Highlights

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

3. Moment.js ^(-3)
4. jQuery Mousewheel ^(-1)
7. Skrollr ^(-7)
8. iLightBox ^(-3)
9. Google Funding Choices ^(-13)
11. Polymer ^(-1)
14. Closure Library ^(-14)
15. jQuery LazyLoad ^(-1)
16. Messenger Customer Chat ^(-1)
19. Google Optimize ^(-5)

✨ Best Legacy Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 43 legacy technologies used on sites from Kenya, 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	46.5%
2	Magnific Popup A responsive lightbox and dialog plugin for jQuery and Zepto.js. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	35.1%
3	Moment.js San Francisco, California, United States An open-source JavaScript library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	9.5%
4	jQuery Mousewheel A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	9.5%
5	jQuery Cookie A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	8.8%
6	Google URL Shortener Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated link service from Google. Legacy	8.6%
7	Skrollr Standalone parallax scrolling JavaScript library for mobile (Android, iOS) and desktop in about 12k minified. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	4.1%
8	iLightBox A commercial jQuery lightbox plugin. $16+Legacy	2.3%
9	Google Funding Choices Mountain View, California, United States A messaging tool for GDPR and CCPA compliance and ad blocking recovery. Legacy	2.3%
10	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	2.2%
11	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	1.5%
12	AddThis Austin, Texas, United States A social bookmarking service that discontinued its services on May 31, 2023. FreeLegacy	1.5%
13	Adobe Flash San Jose, California, United States A discontinued multimedia software platform for creating animations and interactive apps. Legacy	1.5%
14	Closure Library Mountain View, California, United States A low-level JavaScript library designed for building complex and scalable web applications. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.4%
15	jQuery LazyLoad A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.1%
16	Messenger Customer Chat Menlo Park, California, United States The website chat widget from Meta that was retired in May 2024. Legacy	1%
17	CentOS Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A discontinued open-source Linux distribution compatible with RHEL. Legacy	1%
18	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	1%
19	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%
20	Turbolinks Chicago, Illinois, United States A JavaScript library that allows web apps to behave like a single page application. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.8%
21	AngularJS Mountain View, California, United States A discontinued open-source web framework from Google that has been superseded by Angular. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.6%
22	RawGit Portland, Oregon, United States A public CDN for serving files from raw.githubusercontent.com with the correct content types. FreeLegacy	0.6%
23	Google Sign-In Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated JavaScript library that has been superseded by Google Identity services for Web. FreeLegacy	0.4%
24	Oracle Moat Austin, Texas, United States A measurement and marketing analytics suite designed to measure media performance across digital and TV advertising campaigns. Legacy	0.4%
25	Picturefill A responsive image polyfill for <picture>, srcset, sizes, and more. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.4%

👉 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 2,380 websites from Kenya.
We currently track the presence of 124 legacy technologies across the web.
Of these, 43 were detected on websites from Kenya.
Statistics were last calculated on August 4, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.