⚡ Legacy Technologies in Malaysia

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.

Malaysia is a Southeast Asian country with a population of over 34 million people.

According to our data, legacy technologies are detected on 27.3% of websites from Malaysia.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Magnific Popup with an impressive share of 36.5%, followed by jQuery Cookie with 14.9% and jQuery Mousewheel with 14.8%.

Magnific Popup 36.5%
jQuery Cookie 14.9%
jQuery Mousewheel 14.8%
Google URL Shortener 12.9%
Messenger Customer Chat 7.6%
Skrollr 4.7%
AddThis 4.3%
Adobe Flash 4%
Polymer 2.9%
ASP 2.8%
jQuery LazyLoad 2.7%
iLightBox 2.7%
CentOS 1.8%
Picturefill 1.7%
SWFObject 1.6%

🚀 Highlights

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

3. jQuery Mousewheel ^(-1)
5. Messenger Customer Chat ^(-9)
6. Skrollr ^(-5)
11. jQuery LazyLoad ^(-2)
15. SWFObject ^(-3)
16. Google Funding Choices ^(-3)
18. Facebook Like Box ^(-2)
19. RawGit ^(-8)
20. Closure Library ^(-5)
21. Turbolinks ^(-3)

✨ Best Legacy Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 62 legacy technologies used on sites from Malaysia, 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	36.5%
2	jQuery Cookie A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	14.9%
3	jQuery Mousewheel A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	14.8%
4	Google URL Shortener Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated link service from Google. Legacy	12.9%
5	Messenger Customer Chat Menlo Park, California, United States The website chat widget from Meta that was retired in May 2024. Legacy	7.6%
6	Skrollr Standalone parallax scrolling JavaScript library for mobile (Android, iOS) and desktop in about 12k minified. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	4.7%
7	AddThis Austin, Texas, United States A social bookmarking service that discontinued its services on May 31, 2023. FreeLegacy	4.3%
8	Adobe Flash San Jose, California, United States A discontinued multimedia software platform for creating animations and interactive apps. Legacy	4%
9	Polymer A library for creating encapsulated, reusable web components. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2.9%
10	ASP Redmond, Washington, United States A server-side scripting language and dynamic web page engine. FreeLegacy	2.8%
11	jQuery LazyLoad A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2.7%
12	iLightBox A commercial jQuery lightbox plugin. $16+Legacy	2.7%
13	CentOS Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A discontinued open-source Linux distribution compatible with RHEL. Legacy	1.8%
14	Picturefill A responsive image polyfill for , srcset, sizes, and more. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.7%
15	SWFObject A deprecated framework for detecting the Adobe Flash Player plugin and embedding Flash files. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.6%
16	Google Funding Choices Mountain View, California, United States A messaging tool for GDPR and CCPA compliance and ad blocking recovery. Legacy	1.5%
17	AngularJS Mountain View, California, United States A discontinued open-source web framework from Google that has been superseded by Angular. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.2%
18	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	1.2%
19	RawGit Portland, Oregon, United States A public CDN for serving files from raw.githubusercontent.com with the correct content types. FreeLegacy	1%
20	Closure Library Mountain View, California, United States A low-level JavaScript library designed for building complex and scalable web applications. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.7%
21	Turbolinks Chicago, Illinois, United States A JavaScript library that allows web apps to behave like a single page application. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.7%
22	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	0.7%
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	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	0.6%
25	Cufon A discontinued JavaScript library that performs text replacement on web pages, using the canvas element and VML to render fancy fonts. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.6%

👉 See Also

🌎 Legacy in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 9,736 websites from Malaysia.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.