⚡ Legacy Technologies in Nepal

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.

Nepal is a South Asian country with a population of over 31 million people.

According to our data, legacy technologies are detected on 40.6% of websites from Nepal.

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

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Owl Carousel, which dominates the market with a substantial 55.5% share.
It is followed by Magnific Popup with 23.8% and Messenger Customer Chat with 12.3%.

Owl Carousel 55.5%
Magnific Popup 23.8%
Messenger Customer Chat 12.3%
Google URL Shortener 9.4%
jQuery Cookie 7.8%
Moment.js 5.1%
AddThis 4%
Facebook Like 3.5%
jQuery Mousewheel 3.2%
CentOS 2.3%
Skype 2.1%
Turbolinks 1.9%
iLightBox 1.4%
Alexa 1.4%
Google Funding Choices 1.2%

🚀 Highlights

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

3. Messenger Customer Chat ^(-13)
7. AddThis ^(-2)
10. CentOS ^(-3)
11. Skype ^(-7)
12. Turbolinks ^(-14)
14. Alexa ^(-11)
15. Google Funding Choices ^(-7)
18. RawGit ^(-12)
19. Facebook Like Box ^(-4)
22. Cloudflare Apps ^(-22)

✨ Best Legacy Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 41 legacy technologies used on sites from Nepal, 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	55.5%
2	Magnific Popup A responsive lightbox and dialog plugin for jQuery and Zepto.js. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	23.8%
3	Messenger Customer Chat Menlo Park, California, United States The website chat widget from Meta that was retired in May 2024. Legacy	12.3%
4	Google URL Shortener Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated link service from Google. Legacy	9.4%
5	jQuery Cookie A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	7.8%
6	Moment.js San Francisco, California, United States An open-source JavaScript library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	5.1%
7	AddThis Austin, Texas, United States A social bookmarking service that discontinued its services on May 31, 2023. FreeLegacy	4%
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	3.5%
9	jQuery Mousewheel A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	3.2%
10	CentOS Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A discontinued open-source Linux distribution compatible with RHEL. Legacy	2.3%
11	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	2.1%
12	Turbolinks Chicago, Illinois, United States A JavaScript library that allows web apps to behave like a single page application. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.9%
13	iLightBox A commercial jQuery lightbox plugin. $16+Legacy	1.4%
14	Alexa Seattle, Washington, United States A web traffic analysis service from Amazon that was discontinued in 2022. Legacy	1.4%
15	Google Funding Choices Mountain View, California, United States A messaging tool for GDPR and CCPA compliance and ad blocking recovery. Legacy	1.2%
16	Picturefill A responsive image polyfill for <picture>, srcset, sizes, and more. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.9%
17	Adobe Flash San Jose, California, United States A discontinued multimedia software platform for creating animations and interactive apps. Legacy	0.8%
18	RawGit Portland, Oregon, United States A public CDN for serving files from raw.githubusercontent.com with the correct content types. FreeLegacy	0.8%
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	0.8%
20	Skrollr Standalone parallax scrolling JavaScript library for mobile (Android, iOS) and desktop in about 12k minified. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.7%
21	jQuery LazyLoad A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.7%
22	Cloudflare Apps San Francisco, California, United States A deprecated service that allowed the installation of third-party scripts/plugins on a website with a single click. Legacy	0.5%
23	Google Sign-In Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated JavaScript library that has been superseded by Google Identity services for Web. FreeLegacy	0.5%
24	Closure Library Mountain View, California, United States A low-level JavaScript library designed for building complex and scalable web applications. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.5%
25	Material Design Lite Mountain View, California, United States A legacy user interface framework that implements Material Design components using plain CSS, JavaScript, and HTML without external dependencies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.3%

🗃️ 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 2,628 websites from Nepal.
We currently track the presence of 124 legacy technologies across the web.
Of these, 41 were detected on websites from Nepal.
Statistics were last calculated on August 3, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.