⚡ Legacy Technologies in South Africa

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.

South Africa is an African country with a population of over 60 million people.

According to our data, legacy technologies are detected on 21.8% of websites from South Africa.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Magnific Popup with an impressive share of 34.8%, followed by jQuery Mousewheel with 17.8% and Google URL Shortener with 13.4%.

Magnific Popup 34.8%
jQuery Mousewheel 17.8%
Google URL Shortener 13.4%
jQuery Cookie 10.3%
Skrollr 6.1%
iLightBox 4.8%
Polymer 4.1%
AddThis 3.7%
Adobe Flash 3.1%
ASP 2.5%
Picturefill 1.9%
jQuery LazyLoad 1.6%
Google Webmaster Tools 1.2%
Messenger Customer Chat 1.2%
CentOS 1.2%

🚀 Highlights

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

2. jQuery Mousewheel ^(-2)
5. Skrollr ^(-6)
6. iLightBox ^(-3)
7. Polymer ^(-1)
11. Picturefill ^(-1)
12. jQuery LazyLoad ^(-1)
13. Google Webmaster Tools ^(-3)
16. AngularJS ^(-1)
17. Google Optimize ^(-4)
18. Critters ^(-14)

✨ Best Legacy Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 67 legacy technologies used on sites from South Africa, 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	34.8%
2	jQuery Mousewheel A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	17.8%
3	Google URL Shortener Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated link service from Google. Legacy	13.4%
4	jQuery Cookie A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	10.3%
5	Skrollr Standalone parallax scrolling JavaScript library for mobile (Android, iOS) and desktop in about 12k minified. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	6.1%
6	iLightBox A commercial jQuery lightbox plugin. $16+Legacy	4.8%
7	Polymer A library for creating encapsulated, reusable web components. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	4.1%
8	AddThis Austin, Texas, United States A social bookmarking service that discontinued its services on May 31, 2023. FreeLegacy	3.7%
9	Adobe Flash San Jose, California, United States A discontinued multimedia software platform for creating animations and interactive apps. Legacy	3.1%
10	ASP Redmond, Washington, United States A server-side scripting language and dynamic web page engine. FreeLegacy	2.5%
11	Picturefill A responsive image polyfill for , srcset, sizes, and more. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.9%
12	jQuery LazyLoad A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.6%
13	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	1.2%
14	Messenger Customer Chat Menlo Park, California, United States The website chat widget from Meta that was retired in May 2024. Legacy	1.2%
15	CentOS Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A discontinued open-source Linux distribution compatible with RHEL. Legacy	1.2%
16	AngularJS Mountain View, California, United States A discontinued open-source web framework from Google that has been superseded by Angular. 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	1%
18	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%
19	Google Funding Choices Mountain View, California, United States A messaging tool for GDPR and CCPA compliance and ad blocking recovery. Legacy	0.8%
20	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	0.8%
21	Oracle Moat Austin, Texas, United States A measurement and marketing analytics suite designed to measure media performance across digital and TV advertising campaigns. Legacy	0.8%
22	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%
23	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	0.6%
24	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	0.6%
25	SWFObject A deprecated framework for detecting the Adobe Flash Player plugin and embedding Flash files. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.6%

👉 See Also

🌎 Legacy in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 17,797 websites from South Africa.
Statistics were last calculated on March 20, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.