⚡ 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 43.1% of websites from Tanzania.

Statistics based on 932 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 Owl Carousel with an impressive share of 53.5%, followed by Magnific Popup with 49.8% and Moment.js with 17.4%.

Owl Carousel 53.5%
Magnific Popup 49.8%
Moment.js 17.4%
jQuery LazyLoad 10%
Google URL Shortener 9.5%
jQuery Cookie 4%
jQuery Mousewheel 3.7%
Skrollr 1.7%
Facebook Like 1.5%
iLightBox 1.2%
Closure Library 1.2%
Messenger Customer Chat 1.2%
AddThis 1.2%
Google Sign-In 1.2%
Polymer 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.

3. Moment.js ^(-3)
4. jQuery LazyLoad ^(-10)
8. Skrollr ^(-4)
10. iLightBox ^(-1)
11. Closure Library ^(-15)
12. Messenger Customer Chat ^(-3)
14. Google Sign-In ^(-29)
15. Polymer ^(-2)
17. Critters ^(-17)
18. Cufon ^(-23)

✨ Best Legacy Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 36 legacy technologies used on sites from Tanzania, 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	53.5%
2	Magnific Popup Kyiv, Ukraine A responsive lightbox and dialog plugin for jQuery and Zepto.js. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	49.8%
3	Moment.js San Francisco, California, United States An open-source JavaScript library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	17.4%
4	jQuery LazyLoad Finland A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	10%
5	Google URL Shortener Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated link service from Google. Legacy	9.5%
6	jQuery Cookie Germany A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	4%
7	jQuery Mousewheel San Francisco, California, United States A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support with delta normalization. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	3.7%
8	Skrollr Standalone parallax scrolling JavaScript library for mobile (Android, iOS) and desktop in about 12k minified. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.7%
9	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	1.5%
10	iLightBox A commercial jQuery lightbox plugin. $16+Legacy	1.2%
11	Closure Library Mountain View, California, United States A low-level JavaScript library designed for building complex and scalable web applications. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.2%
12	Messenger Customer Chat Menlo Park, California, United States The website chat widget from Meta that was retired in May 2024. Legacy	1.2%
13	AddThis Austin, Texas, United States A social bookmarking service that discontinued its services on May 31, 2023. FreeLegacy	1.2%
14	Google Sign-In Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated JavaScript library that has been superseded by Google Identity services for Web. FreeLegacy	1.2%
15	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%
16	Adobe Flash San Jose, California, United States A discontinued multimedia software platform for creating animations and interactive apps. Legacy	1%
17	Critters San Francisco, California, United States A deprecated Webpack plugin that inlines your app's critical CSS and lazily loads the rest. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1%
18	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%
19	Google Funding Choices Mountain View, California, United States A messaging tool for GDPR and CCPA compliance and ad blocking recovery. Legacy	0.7%
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	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%
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	Salesforce Chat San Francisco, California, United States A legacy live chat solution from Salesforce that was 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	CentOS Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A discontinued open-source Linux distribution compatible with RHEL. Legacy	0.5%

👉 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 932 websites from Tanzania.
We currently track the presence of 130 legacy technologies across the web.
Of these, 36 were detected on websites from Tanzania.
Statistics were last calculated on September 18, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.