⚡ Legacy Technologies in New Zealand

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.

New Zealand is an Oceanian country with a population of over 5.1 million people.

According to our data, legacy technologies are detected on 19.2% of websites from New Zealand.

Statistics based on 14K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Magnific Popup with a share of 22.8%, followed by Google URL Shortener with 17% and jQuery Mousewheel with 15.5%.

Magnific Popup 22.8%
Google URL Shortener 17%
jQuery Mousewheel 15.5%
jQuery Cookie 10.8%
Polymer 6.5%
AddThis 4.8%
iLightBox 3.7%
Adobe Flash 3.4%
Messenger Customer Chat 3.1%
Skrollr 3.1%
AngularJS 2.7%
Picturefill 2.5%
Google Webmaster Tools 2.2%
Google Optimize 1.8%
Other 0.1%

🚀 Highlights

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

3. jQuery Mousewheel ^(-1)
5. Polymer ^(-4)
7. iLightBox ^(-1)
9. Messenger Customer Chat ^(-5)
10. Skrollr ^(-1)
11. AngularJS ^(-6)
13. Google Webmaster Tools ^(-3)
14. Google Optimize ^(-7)
17. SWFObject ^(-1)
18. Lightbox for Bootstrap ^(-17)

✨ Best Legacy Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 70 legacy technologies used on sites from New Zealand, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Magnific Popup A responsive lightbox and dialog plugin for jQuery and Zepto. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	22.8%
2	Google URL Shortener Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated link service from Google. Legacy	17%
3	jQuery Mousewheel A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	15.5%
4	jQuery Cookie A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	10.8%
5	Polymer A library for creating encapsulated, reusable web components. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	6.5%
6	AddThis Austin, Texas, United States A social bookmarking service that discontinued its services on May 31, 2023. FreeLegacy	4.8%
7	iLightBox A commercial jQuery lightbox plugin. $16+Legacy	3.7%
8	Adobe Flash San Jose, California, United States A discontinued multimedia software platform for creating animations and interactive apps. Legacy	3.4%
9	Messenger Customer Chat Menlo Park, California, United States The website chat widget from Meta that was retired in May 2024. Legacy	3.1%
10	Skrollr Standalone parallax scrolling JavaScript library for mobile (Android, iOS) and desktop in about 12k minified. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	3.1%
11	AngularJS Mountain View, California, United States A discontinued open-source web framework from Google that has been superseded by Angular. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2.7%
12	Picturefill A responsive image polyfill for , srcset, sizes, and more. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2.5%
13	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	2.2%
14	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	1.8%
15	ASP Redmond, Washington, United States A server-side scripting language and dynamic web page engine. FreeLegacy	1.7%
16	jQuery LazyLoad A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.4%
17	SWFObject A deprecated framework for detecting the Adobe Flash Player plugin and embedding Flash files. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.3%
18	Lightbox for Bootstrap A lightbox module for Bootstrap that supports images, YouTube videos and galleries - built around Bootstrap's Modal plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.1%
19	CentOS Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A discontinued open-source Linux distribution compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Legacy	1%
20	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	0.8%
21	Oribi Mountain View, California, United States An all-in-one marketing analytics solution acquired by LinkedIn. Legacy	0.8%
22	Cufon A discontinued JavaScript library that performs text replacement on web pages, using the canvas element and VML to render fancy fonts. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.7%
23	Salesforce Chat San Francisco, California, United States A live chat solution from Salesforce that is currently in maintenance-only mode and is scheduled to be retired in February 2026. Legacy	0.7%
24	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	0.7%
25	HeadJS A JavaScript loader that loads scripts in parallel, but executes them in order. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.6%

👉 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 14,649 websites from New Zealand.
We currently track the presence of 119 legacy technologies across the web.
Of these, 70 were detected on websites from New Zealand.
Statistics were last calculated on June 20, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.