⚡ Legacy Technologies in Taiwan

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.

Taiwan is an East Asian island country with a population of around 23.6 million people.

According to our data, legacy technologies are detected on 35.3% of websites from Taiwan.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Google URL Shortener with a share of 22.5%, followed by Magnific Popup with 18.1% and CentOS with 11.7%.

Google URL Shortener 22.5%
Magnific Popup 18.1%
CentOS 11.7%
jQuery Cookie 11.4%
jQuery Mousewheel 9.1%
ASP 8.6%
Messenger Customer Chat 7.6%
AngularJS 7.4%
jQuery LazyLoad 5.2%
Adobe Flash 4.5%
Picturefill 2.8%
AddThis 2%
Skrollr 1.7%
SWFObject 1.7%
iLightBox 1.5%

🚀 Highlights

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

1. Google URL Shortener ^(-2)
3. CentOS ^(-7)
6. ASP ^(-1)
7. Messenger Customer Chat ^(-7)
8. AngularJS ^(-9)
9. jQuery LazyLoad ^(-4)
11. Picturefill ^(-1)
14. SWFObject ^(-4)
16. Facebook Like Box ^(-4)
17. Alexa ^(-6)

✨ Best Legacy Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 57 legacy technologies used on sites from Taiwan, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Google URL Shortener Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated link service from Google. Legacy	22.5%
2	Magnific Popup A responsive lightbox and dialog plugin for jQuery and Zepto.js. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	18.1%
3	CentOS Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A discontinued open-source Linux distribution compatible with RHEL. Legacy	11.7%
4	jQuery Cookie A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	11.4%
5	jQuery Mousewheel A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	9.1%
6	ASP Redmond, Washington, United States A server-side scripting language and dynamic web page engine. FreeLegacy	8.6%
7	Messenger Customer Chat Menlo Park, California, United States The website chat widget from Meta that was retired in May 2024. Legacy	7.6%
8	AngularJS Mountain View, California, United States A discontinued open-source web framework from Google that has been superseded by Angular. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	7.4%
9	jQuery LazyLoad A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	5.2%
10	Adobe Flash San Jose, California, United States A discontinued multimedia software platform for creating animations and interactive apps. Legacy	4.5%
11	Picturefill A responsive image polyfill for , srcset, sizes, and more. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2.8%
12	AddThis Austin, Texas, United States A social bookmarking service that discontinued its services on May 31, 2023. FreeLegacy	2%
13	Skrollr Standalone parallax scrolling JavaScript library for mobile (Android, iOS) and desktop in about 12k minified. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.7%
14	SWFObject A deprecated framework for detecting the Adobe Flash Player plugin and embedding Flash files. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.7%
15	iLightBox A commercial jQuery lightbox plugin. $16+Legacy	1.5%
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	Alexa Seattle, Washington, United States A web traffic analysis service from Amazon that was discontinued in 2022. Legacy	1.5%
18	Polymer A library for creating encapsulated, reusable web components. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.4%
19	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	1.1%
20	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	0.9%
21	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	0.9%
22	Turbolinks Chicago, Illinois, United States A JavaScript library that allows web apps to behave like a single page application. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.7%
23	Spry San Jose, California, United States A deprecated JavaScript framework by Adobe that enables the rapid development of Ajax-powered web pages. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.6%
24	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%
25	iScroll A high-performance JavaScript library for smooth scrolling. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.5%

👉 See Also

🌎 Legacy in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 12,210 websites from Taiwan.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.