⚡ Legacy Technologies in Pakistan

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.

Pakistan is a South Asian country with a population of over 242 million people.

According to our data, legacy technologies are detected on 24.8% of websites from Pakistan.

Statistics based on 7K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Magnific Popup with an impressive share of 44.6%, followed by Google URL Shortener with 14.5% and jQuery Cookie with 12.3%.

Magnific Popup 44.6%
Google URL Shortener 14.5%
jQuery Cookie 12.3%
jQuery Mousewheel 8.2%
Messenger Customer Chat 5.4%
iLightBox 4.3%
AddThis 3.6%
Skrollr 3.5%
Google Funding Choices 2.9%
jQuery LazyLoad 2.9%
Skype 2.7%
Adobe Flash 1.9%
ASP 1.7%
Alexa 1.3%
Closure Library 1.3%

🚀 Highlights

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

2. Google URL Shortener ^(-1)
5. Messenger Customer Chat ^(-9)
6. iLightBox ^(-2)
8. Skrollr ^(-3)
9. Google Funding Choices ^(-10)
10. jQuery LazyLoad ^(-3)
11. Skype ^(-4)
14. Alexa ^(-8)
15. Closure Library ^(-10)
16. Facebook Like Box ^(-4)

✨ Best Legacy Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 51 legacy technologies used on sites from Pakistan, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Magnific Popup A responsive lightbox and dialog plugin for jQuery and Zepto. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	44.6%
2	Google URL Shortener Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated link service from Google. Legacy	14.5%
3	jQuery Cookie A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	12.3%
4	jQuery Mousewheel A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	8.2%
5	Messenger Customer Chat Menlo Park, California, United States The website chat widget from Meta that was retired in May 2024. Legacy	5.4%
6	iLightBox A commercial jQuery lightbox plugin. $16+Legacy	4.3%
7	AddThis Austin, Texas, United States A social bookmarking service that discontinued its services on May 31, 2023. FreeLegacy	3.6%
8	Skrollr Standalone parallax scrolling JavaScript library for mobile (Android, iOS) and desktop in about 12k minified. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	3.5%
9	Google Funding Choices Mountain View, California, United States A messaging tool for GDPR and CCPA compliance and ad blocking recovery. Legacy	2.9%
10	jQuery LazyLoad A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2.9%
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	2.7%
12	Adobe Flash San Jose, California, United States A discontinued multimedia software platform for creating animations and interactive apps. Legacy	1.9%
13	ASP Redmond, Washington, United States A server-side scripting language and dynamic web page engine. FreeLegacy	1.7%
14	Alexa Seattle, Washington, United States A web traffic analysis service from Amazon that was discontinued in 2022. Legacy	1.3%
15	Closure Library Mountain View, California, United States A low-level JavaScript library designed for building complex and scalable web applications. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.3%
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	1.2%
17	Picturefill A responsive image polyfill for , srcset, sizes, and more. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.2%
18	CentOS Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A discontinued open-source Linux distribution compatible with RHEL. Legacy	0.9%
19	Polymer A library for creating encapsulated, reusable web components. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.8%
20	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	0.7%
21	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%
22	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	0.7%
23	AngularJS Mountain View, California, United States A discontinued open-source web framework from Google that has been superseded by Angular. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.7%
24	RawGit Portland, Oregon, United States A public CDN for serving files from raw.githubusercontent.com with the correct content types. FreeLegacy	0.5%
25	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%

🗃️ 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 7,296 websites from Pakistan.
We currently track the presence of 117 legacy technologies across the web.
Of these, 51 were detected on websites from Pakistan.
Statistics were last calculated on May 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.