⚡ Legacy Technologies in the Philippines

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.

The Philippines is a Southeast Asian country with a population of over 118 million people.

According to our data, legacy technologies are detected on 29.5% of websites from the Philippines.

Statistics based on 6K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Owl Carousel with a share of 29.4%, followed by Magnific Popup with 19.8% and Messenger Customer Chat with 16.8%.

Owl Carousel 29.4%
Magnific Popup 19.8%
Messenger Customer Chat 16.8%
Google URL Shortener 9%
jQuery Cookie 8%
Moment.js 7.9%
jQuery Mousewheel 6.3%
CentOS 5.3%
Polymer 2.9%
Facebook Like 2.9%
jQuery LazyLoad 2.2%
AddThis 2.2%
Adobe Flash 2.2%
Google Funding Choices 2%
iLightBox 1.8%

🚀 Highlights

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

3. Messenger Customer Chat ^(-12)
8. CentOS ^(-8)
9. Polymer ^(-8)
11. jQuery LazyLoad ^(-3)
14. Google Funding Choices ^(-7)
18. Closure Library ^(-8)
19. Google Optimize ^(-5)
21. Salesforce Chat ^(-21)
22. Microsoft Invest ^(-1)
23. RawGit ^(-9)

✨ Best Legacy Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 67 legacy technologies used on sites from the Philippines, 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	29.4%
2	Magnific Popup Kyiv, Ukraine A responsive lightbox and dialog plugin for jQuery and Zepto.js. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	19.8%
3	Messenger Customer Chat Menlo Park, California, United States The website chat widget from Meta that was retired in May 2024. Legacy	16.8%
4	Google URL Shortener Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated link service from Google. Legacy	9%
5	jQuery Cookie Germany A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	8%
6	Moment.js San Francisco, California, United States An open-source JavaScript library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	7.9%
7	jQuery Mousewheel San Francisco, California, United States A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support with delta normalization. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	6.3%
8	CentOS Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A discontinued open-source Linux distribution compatible with RHEL. Legacy	5.3%
9	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	2.9%
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	2.9%
11	jQuery LazyLoad Finland A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2.2%
12	AddThis Austin, Texas, United States A social bookmarking service that discontinued its services on May 31, 2023. FreeLegacy	2.2%
13	Adobe Flash San Jose, California, United States A discontinued multimedia software platform for creating animations and interactive apps. Legacy	2.2%
14	Google Funding Choices Mountain View, California, United States A messaging tool for GDPR and CCPA compliance and ad blocking recovery. Legacy	2%
15	iLightBox A commercial jQuery lightbox plugin. $16+Legacy	1.8%
16	ASP Redmond, Washington, United States A server-side scripting language and dynamic web page engine. FreeLegacy	1.7%
17	Skrollr Standalone parallax scrolling JavaScript library for mobile (Android, iOS) and desktop in about 12k minified. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.7%
18	Closure Library Mountain View, California, United States A low-level JavaScript library designed for building complex and scalable web applications. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.4%
19	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	1.2%
20	Picturefill Boston, Massachusetts, United States A responsive image polyfill for <picture>, srcset, sizes, and more. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1%
21	Salesforce Chat San Francisco, California, United States A legacy live chat solution from Salesforce that was retired in February 2026. Legacy	1%
22	Microsoft Invest Redmond, Washington, United States A demand-side ad management platform created after Microsoft's acquisition of Xandr to facilitate programmatic media buying. Legacy	0.9%
23	RawGit Portland, Oregon, United States A public CDN for serving files from raw.githubusercontent.com with the correct content types. FreeLegacy	0.8%
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	0.8%
25	AngularJS Mountain View, California, United States A discontinued open-source web framework from Google that has been superseded by Angular. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.8%

👉 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 6,043 websites from the Philippines.
We currently track the presence of 130 legacy technologies across the web.
Of these, 67 were detected on websites from the Philippines.
Statistics were last calculated on September 18, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.