⚡ Legacy Technologies in Tanzania

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.

Tanzania is an East African country with a population of over 67 million people.

According to our data, legacy technologies are detected on 49% of websites from Tanzania.

Statistics based on 789 analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Magnific Popup with an impressive share of 51.9%, followed by Owl Carousel with 51.2% and Moment.js with 22.5%.

Magnific Popup 51.9%
Owl Carousel 51.2%
Moment.js 22.5%
jQuery LazyLoad 16.8%
Google URL Shortener 7.8%
jQuery Cookie 5.4%
jQuery Mousewheel 3.4%
CentOS 2.3%
Polymer 1.8%
Skrollr 1.6%
Google Sign-In 1.3%
Facebook Like 1.3%
Material Design Lite 1.3%
Turbolinks 1%
AddThis 1%

🚀 Highlights

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

1. Magnific Popup ^(-1)
3. Moment.js ^(-3)
4. jQuery LazyLoad ^(-12)
8. CentOS ^(-5)
9. Polymer ^(-3)
10. Skrollr ^(-4)
11. Google Sign-In ^(-29)
13. Material Design Lite ^(-35)
14. Turbolinks ^(-12)
16. Closure Library ^(-12)

✨ Best Legacy Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 35 legacy technologies used on sites from Tanzania, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Magnific Popup A responsive lightbox and dialog plugin for jQuery and Zepto.js. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	51.9%
2	Owl Carousel Germany A deprecated open-source jQuery plugin for creating responsive, touch-enabled, and accessible carousel sliders. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	51.2%
3	Moment.js San Francisco, California, United States An open-source JavaScript library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	22.5%
4	jQuery LazyLoad A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	16.8%
5	Google URL Shortener Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated link service from Google. Legacy	7.8%
6	jQuery Cookie A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	5.4%
7	jQuery Mousewheel A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	3.4%
8	CentOS Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A discontinued open-source Linux distribution compatible with RHEL. Legacy	2.3%
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	1.8%
10	Skrollr Standalone parallax scrolling JavaScript library for mobile (Android, iOS) and desktop in about 12k minified. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.6%
11	Google Sign-In Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated JavaScript library that has been superseded by Google Identity services for Web. FreeLegacy	1.3%
12	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	1.3%
13	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	1.3%
14	Turbolinks Chicago, Illinois, United States A JavaScript library that allows web apps to behave like a single page application. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1%
15	AddThis Austin, Texas, United States A social bookmarking service that discontinued its services on May 31, 2023. FreeLegacy	1%
16	Closure Library Mountain View, California, United States A low-level JavaScript library designed for building complex and scalable web applications. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1%
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	0.8%
18	Adobe Flash San Jose, California, United States A discontinued multimedia software platform for creating animations and interactive apps. Legacy	0.8%
19	Cufon A discontinued JavaScript library that performs text replacement on web pages, using the canvas element and VML to render fancy fonts. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.8%
20	iLightBox A commercial jQuery lightbox plugin. $16+Legacy	0.8%
21	Messenger Customer Chat Menlo Park, California, United States The website chat widget from Meta that was retired in May 2024. Legacy	0.8%
22	Critters San Francisco, California, United States A deprecated Webpack plugin that inlines your app's critical CSS and lazily loads the rest. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.8%
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	0.5%
24	AngularJS Mountain View, California, United States A discontinued open-source web framework from Google that has been superseded by Angular. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.5%
25	Cloudflare Apps San Francisco, California, United States A deprecated service that allowed the installation of third-party scripts/plugins on a website with a single click. Legacy	0.3%

👉 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 789 websites from Tanzania.
We currently track the presence of 124 legacy technologies across the web.
Of these, 35 were detected on websites from Tanzania.
Statistics were last calculated on August 4, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.