⚡ 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 26.5% 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 Magnific Popup with an impressive share of 37%, followed by Messenger Customer Chat with 18.8% and Google URL Shortener with 13.3%.

Magnific Popup 37%
Messenger Customer Chat 18.8%
Google URL Shortener 13.3%
jQuery Cookie 10.9%
AddThis 6.4%
jQuery Mousewheel 4.6%
CentOS 3.7%
Skype 3.4%
Turbolinks 2.9%
iLightBox 2.3%
Alexa 2.3%
Google Funding Choices 2%
Picturefill 1.5%
Facebook Like Box 1.4%
RawGit 1.4%

🚀 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.

2. Messenger Customer Chat ^(-12)
5. AddThis ^(-1)
7. CentOS ^(-3)
8. Skype ^(-7)
9. Turbolinks ^(-15)
11. Alexa ^(-11)
12. Google Funding Choices ^(-7)
14. Facebook Like Box ^(-6)
15. RawGit ^(-12)
19. Closure Library ^(-6)

✨ Best Legacy Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 35 legacy technologies used on sites from Nepal, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Magnific Popup A responsive lightbox and dialog plugin for jQuery and Zepto. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	37%
2	Messenger Customer Chat Menlo Park, California, United States The website chat widget from Meta that was retired in May 2024. Legacy	18.8%
3	Google URL Shortener Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated link service from Google. Legacy	13.3%
4	jQuery Cookie A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	10.9%
5	AddThis Austin, Texas, United States A social bookmarking service that discontinued its services on May 31, 2023. FreeLegacy	6.4%
6	jQuery Mousewheel A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	4.6%
7	CentOS Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A discontinued open-source Linux distribution compatible with RHEL. Legacy	3.7%
8	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	3.4%
9	Turbolinks Chicago, Illinois, United States A JavaScript library that allows web apps to behave like a single page application. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2.9%
10	iLightBox A commercial jQuery lightbox plugin. $16+Legacy	2.3%
11	Alexa Seattle, Washington, United States A web traffic analysis service from Amazon that was discontinued in 2022. Legacy	2.3%
12	Google Funding Choices Mountain View, California, United States A messaging tool for GDPR and CCPA compliance and ad blocking recovery. Legacy	2%
13	Picturefill A responsive image polyfill for , srcset, sizes, and more. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.5%
14	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	1.4%
15	RawGit Portland, Oregon, United States A public CDN for serving files from raw.githubusercontent.com with the correct content types. FreeLegacy	1.4%
16	Adobe Flash San Jose, California, United States A discontinued multimedia software platform for creating animations and interactive apps. Legacy	1.2%
17	jQuery LazyLoad A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.1%
18	Skrollr Standalone parallax scrolling JavaScript library for mobile (Android, iOS) and desktop in about 12k minified. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.9%
19	Closure Library Mountain View, California, United States A low-level JavaScript library designed for building complex and scalable web applications. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.8%
20	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	0.8%
21	Google Sign-In Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated JavaScript library that has been superseded by Google Identity services for Web. FreeLegacy	0.8%
22	Lightbox for Bootstrap A lightbox module for Bootstrap that supports images, YouTube videos and galleries - built around Bootstrap's Modal plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.5%
23	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	0.5%
24	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%
25	Polymer A library for creating encapsulated, reusable web components. 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 2,471 websites from Nepal.
We currently track the presence of 117 legacy technologies across the web.
Of these, 35 were detected on websites from Nepal.
Statistics were last calculated on May 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.