⚡ 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 37.8% of websites from Tanzania.

Statistics based on 743 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, which dominates the market with a substantial 69% share.
It is followed by jQuery LazyLoad with 23.1% and Google URL Shortener with 10.3%.

Magnific Popup 69%
jQuery LazyLoad 23.1%
Google URL Shortener 10.3%
jQuery Cookie 7.1%
jQuery Mousewheel 4.6%
CentOS 3.2%
Polymer 2.5%
Material Design Lite 1.8%
Google Sign-In 1.8%
Skrollr 1.8%
Turbolinks 1.4%
Closure Library 1.4%
AddThis 1.4%
Messenger Customer Chat 1.1%
Google Optimize 1.1%

🚀 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.

2. jQuery LazyLoad ^(-11)
6. CentOS ^(-4)
7. Polymer ^(-2)
8. Material Design Lite ^(-36)
9. Google Sign-In ^(-27)
10. Skrollr ^(-1)
11. Turbolinks ^(-13)
12. Closure Library ^(-13)
15. Google Optimize ^(-6)
16. Critters ^(-17)

✨ Best Legacy Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 32 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. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	69%
2	jQuery LazyLoad A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	23.1%
3	Google URL Shortener Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated link service from Google. Legacy	10.3%
4	jQuery Cookie A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	7.1%
5	jQuery Mousewheel A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	4.6%
6	CentOS Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A discontinued open-source Linux distribution compatible with RHEL. Legacy	3.2%
7	Polymer A library for creating encapsulated, reusable web components. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	2.5%
8	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	1.8%
9	Google Sign-In Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated JavaScript library that has been superseded by Google Identity services for Web. FreeLegacy	1.8%
10	Skrollr Standalone parallax scrolling JavaScript library for mobile (Android, iOS) and desktop in about 12k minified. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.8%
11	Turbolinks Chicago, Illinois, United States A JavaScript library that allows web apps to behave like a single page application. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.4%
12	Closure Library Mountain View, California, United States A low-level JavaScript library designed for building complex and scalable web applications. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.4%
13	AddThis Austin, Texas, United States A social bookmarking service that discontinued its services on May 31, 2023. FreeLegacy	1.4%
14	Messenger Customer Chat Menlo Park, California, United States The website chat widget from Meta that was retired in May 2024. Legacy	1.1%
15	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	1.1%
16	Critters San Francisco, California, United States A deprecated Webpack plugin that inlines your app's critical CSS and lazily loads the rest. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.1%
17	Cufon A discontinued JavaScript library that performs text replacement on web pages, using the canvas element and VML to render fancy fonts. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.1%
18	iLightBox A commercial jQuery lightbox plugin. $16+Legacy	0.7%
19	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	0.7%
20	AngularJS Mountain View, California, United States A discontinued open-source web framework from Google that has been superseded by Angular. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.7%
21	Adobe Flash San Jose, California, United States A discontinued multimedia software platform for creating animations and interactive apps. Legacy	0.7%
22	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	0.4%
23	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	0.4%
24	Prefix-free A legacy script that adds browser prefixes to CSS code when needed for old browsers. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.4%
25	Audience Studio San Francisco, California, United States A data management platform that was retired in February 2024. Legacy	0.4%

👉 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 743 websites from Tanzania.
We currently track the presence of 117 legacy technologies across the web.
Of these, 32 were detected on websites from Tanzania.
Statistics were last calculated on May 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.