⚡ Legacy Technologies in Nigeria

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.

Nigeria is a West African country with a population of over 226 million people.

According to our data, legacy technologies are detected on 26.7% of websites from Nigeria.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Magnific Popup, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 56.9% share.
It is followed by jQuery Mousewheel with 9.7% and jQuery Cookie with 8.7%.

Magnific Popup 56.9%
jQuery Mousewheel 9.7%
jQuery Cookie 8.7%
Google URL Shortener 6.9%
Google Funding Choices 4.9%
iLightBox 4.2%
Skrollr 3.5%
AddThis 2.9%
Alexa 2.3%
Closure Library 2.3%
jQuery LazyLoad 1.9%
Picturefill 1.7%
Messenger Customer Chat 1.7%
Adobe Flash 1.3%
Polymer 1.3%

🚀 Highlights

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

2. jQuery Mousewheel ^(-2)
5. Google Funding Choices ^(-14)
6. iLightBox ^(-3)
7. Skrollr ^(-4)
9. Alexa ^(-14)
10. Closure Library ^(-15)
11. jQuery LazyLoad ^(-2)
13. Messenger Customer Chat ^(-1)
16. Turbolinks ^(-8)
18. Facebook Like Box ^(-2)

✨ Best Legacy Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 43 legacy technologies used on sites from Nigeria, 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	56.9%
2	jQuery Mousewheel A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	9.7%
3	jQuery Cookie A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	8.7%
4	Google URL Shortener Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated link service from Google. Legacy	6.9%
5	Google Funding Choices Mountain View, California, United States A messaging tool for GDPR and CCPA compliance and ad blocking recovery. Legacy	4.9%
6	iLightBox A commercial jQuery lightbox plugin. $16+Legacy	4.2%
7	Skrollr Standalone parallax scrolling JavaScript library for mobile (Android, iOS) and desktop in about 12k minified. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	3.5%
8	AddThis Austin, Texas, United States A social bookmarking service that discontinued its services on May 31, 2023. FreeLegacy	2.9%
9	Alexa Seattle, Washington, United States A web traffic analysis service from Amazon that was discontinued in 2022. Legacy	2.3%
10	Closure Library Mountain View, California, United States A low-level JavaScript library designed for building complex and scalable web applications. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2.3%
11	jQuery LazyLoad A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.9%
12	Picturefill A responsive image polyfill for , srcset, sizes, and more. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.7%
13	Messenger Customer Chat Menlo Park, California, United States The website chat widget from Meta that was retired in May 2024. Legacy	1.7%
14	Adobe Flash San Jose, California, United States A discontinued multimedia software platform for creating animations and interactive apps. Legacy	1.3%
15	Polymer A library for creating encapsulated, reusable web components. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.3%
16	Turbolinks Chicago, Illinois, United States A JavaScript library that allows web apps to behave like a single page application. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1%
17	CentOS Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A discontinued open-source Linux distribution compatible with RHEL. Legacy	1%
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	0.8%
19	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	0.8%
20	AngularJS Mountain View, California, United States A discontinued open-source web framework from Google that has been superseded by Angular. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.8%
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	0.7%
22	RawGit Portland, Oregon, United States A public CDN for serving files from raw.githubusercontent.com with the correct content types. FreeLegacy	0.7%
23	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%
24	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	0.5%
25	Perfect Money Zurich, Switzerland A financial service that allowed users to make instant payments, which ceased operations in 2025. Legacy	0.5%

👉 See Also

🌎 Legacy in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 3,135 websites from Nigeria.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.