⚡ 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 36.4% of websites from Nigeria.

Statistics based on 3K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Owl Carousel with an impressive share of 45%, followed by Magnific Popup with 42.1% and Moment.js with 10.4%.

Owl Carousel 45%
Magnific Popup 42.1%
Moment.js 10.4%
jQuery Mousewheel 7.7%
jQuery Cookie 6.5%
Google URL Shortener 5.3%
Google Funding Choices 3.7%
iLightBox 2.9%
Skrollr 2.7%
Facebook Like 2.1%
AddThis 2%
Closure Library 1.8%
Alexa 1.6%
jQuery LazyLoad 1.3%
Picturefill 1.1%

🚀 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.

3. Moment.js ^(-3)
4. jQuery Mousewheel ^(-1)
7. Google Funding Choices ^(-15)
8. iLightBox ^(-3)
9. Skrollr ^(-5)
12. Closure Library ^(-16)
13. Alexa ^(-12)
14. jQuery LazyLoad ^(-2)
16. Messenger Customer Chat ^(-1)
19. Facebook Like Box ^(-4)

✨ Best Legacy Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 50 legacy technologies used on sites from Nigeria, 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	45%
2	Magnific Popup A responsive lightbox and dialog plugin for jQuery and Zepto.js. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	42.1%
3	Moment.js San Francisco, California, United States An open-source JavaScript library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	10.4%
4	jQuery Mousewheel A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	7.7%
5	jQuery Cookie A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	6.5%
6	Google URL Shortener Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated link service from Google. Legacy	5.3%
7	Google Funding Choices Mountain View, California, United States A messaging tool for GDPR and CCPA compliance and ad blocking recovery. Legacy	3.7%
8	iLightBox A commercial jQuery lightbox plugin. $16+Legacy	2.9%
9	Skrollr Standalone parallax scrolling JavaScript library for mobile (Android, iOS) and desktop in about 12k minified. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2.7%
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	2.1%
11	AddThis Austin, Texas, United States A social bookmarking service that discontinued its services on May 31, 2023. FreeLegacy	2%
12	Closure Library Mountain View, California, United States A low-level JavaScript library designed for building complex and scalable web applications. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.8%
13	Alexa Seattle, Washington, United States A web traffic analysis service from Amazon that was discontinued in 2022. Legacy	1.6%
14	jQuery LazyLoad A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.3%
15	Picturefill A responsive image polyfill for <picture>, srcset, sizes, and more. 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	1.1%
17	Adobe Flash San Jose, California, United States A discontinued multimedia software platform for creating animations and interactive apps. 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	0.9%
19	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	0.6%
20	Turbolinks Chicago, Illinois, United States A JavaScript library that allows web apps to behave like a single page application. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.6%
21	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	0.6%
22	CentOS Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A discontinued open-source Linux distribution compatible with RHEL. Legacy	0.6%
23	AngularJS Mountain View, California, United States A discontinued open-source web framework from Google that has been superseded by Angular. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.6%
24	RawGit Portland, Oregon, United States A public CDN for serving files from raw.githubusercontent.com with the correct content types. FreeLegacy	0.6%
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	0.5%

👉 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 3,454 websites from Nigeria.
We currently track the presence of 124 legacy technologies across the web.
Of these, 50 were detected on websites from Nigeria.
Statistics were last calculated on August 4, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.