⚡ 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 22.4% of websites from the Philippines.

Statistics based on 5K+ 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 Magnific Popup with a share of 21.8%, followed by Messenger Customer Chat with 21.7% and CentOS with 10.5%.

Magnific Popup 21.8%
Messenger Customer Chat 21.7%
CentOS 10.5%
jQuery Cookie 10.1%
Google URL Shortener 8.6%
jQuery Mousewheel 7.8%
Polymer 5%
jQuery LazyLoad 3.5%
Adobe Flash 3.3%
ASP 2.8%
iLightBox 2.6%
AddThis 2.5%
Google Funding Choices 2.5%
Skrollr 1.9%
Closure Library 1.7%

🚀 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.

2. Messenger Customer Chat ^(-12)
3. CentOS ^(-7)
7. Polymer ^(-2)
8. jQuery LazyLoad ^(-5)
13. Google Funding Choices ^(-6)
15. Closure Library ^(-10)
16. Facebook Like Box ^(-4)
17. Google Optimize ^(-4)
19. RawGit ^(-8)
20. Turbolinks ^(-4)

✨ Best Legacy Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 58 legacy technologies used on sites from the Philippines, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Magnific Popup A responsive lightbox and dialog plugin for jQuery and Zepto. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	21.8%
2	Messenger Customer Chat Menlo Park, California, United States The website chat widget from Meta that was retired in May 2024. Legacy	21.7%
3	CentOS Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A discontinued open-source Linux distribution compatible with RHEL. Legacy	10.5%
4	jQuery Cookie A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	10.1%
5	Google URL Shortener Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated link service from Google. Legacy	8.6%
6	jQuery Mousewheel A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	7.8%
7	Polymer A library for creating encapsulated, reusable web components. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	5%
8	jQuery LazyLoad A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	3.5%
9	Adobe Flash San Jose, California, United States A discontinued multimedia software platform for creating animations and interactive apps. Legacy	3.3%
10	ASP Redmond, Washington, United States A server-side scripting language and dynamic web page engine. FreeLegacy	2.8%
11	iLightBox A commercial jQuery lightbox plugin. $16+Legacy	2.6%
12	AddThis Austin, Texas, United States A social bookmarking service that discontinued its services on May 31, 2023. FreeLegacy	2.5%
13	Google Funding Choices Mountain View, California, United States A messaging tool for GDPR and CCPA compliance and ad blocking recovery. Legacy	2.5%
14	Skrollr Standalone parallax scrolling JavaScript library for mobile (Android, iOS) and desktop in about 12k minified. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.9%
15	Closure Library Mountain View, California, United States A low-level JavaScript library designed for building complex and scalable web applications. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.7%
16	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	1.5%
17	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	1.3%
18	Picturefill A responsive image polyfill for , srcset, sizes, and more. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.2%
19	RawGit Portland, Oregon, United States A public CDN for serving files from raw.githubusercontent.com with the correct content types. FreeLegacy	1%
20	Turbolinks Chicago, Illinois, United States A JavaScript library that allows web apps to behave like a single page application. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.9%
21	Alexa Seattle, Washington, United States A web traffic analysis service from Amazon that was discontinued in 2022. Legacy	0.9%
22	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	0.9%
23	AngularJS Mountain View, California, United States A discontinued open-source web framework from Google that has been superseded by Angular. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.9%
24	YUI New York, United States A legacy, open-source JavaScript and CSS library for building interactive web applications with a focus on modular architecture and cross-browser consistency. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.7%
25	Lightbox for Bootstrap A lightbox module for Bootstrap that supports images, YouTube videos and galleries - built around Bootstrap's Modal plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.7%

👉 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 5,449 websites from the Philippines.
We currently track the presence of 117 legacy technologies across the web.
Of these, 58 were detected on websites from the Philippines.
Statistics were last calculated on May 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.