⚡ 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 28.2% of websites from South Africa.

Statistics based on 18K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ 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 Owl Carousel with a share of 29.8%, followed by Magnific Popup with 27.1% and jQuery Mousewheel with 13.9%.

Owl Carousel 29.8%
Magnific Popup 27.1%
jQuery Mousewheel 13.9%
Google URL Shortener 10.8%
Moment.js 9.9%
jQuery Cookie 8%
Skrollr 4.7%
iLightBox 3.7%
Polymer 3.1%
AddThis 2.8%
Facebook Like 2.8%
Adobe Flash 2.4%
ASP 1.9%
Picturefill 1.5%
jQuery LazyLoad 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.

3. jQuery Mousewheel ^(-2)
5. Moment.js ^(-1)
7. Skrollr ^(-7)
8. iLightBox ^(-3)
9. Polymer ^(-3)
14. Picturefill ^(-1)
15. jQuery LazyLoad ^(-1)
16. Google Webmaster Tools ^(-4)
19. Google Optimize ^(-5)
21. Critters ^(-16)

✨ Best Legacy Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 71 legacy technologies used on sites from South Africa, 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	29.8%
2	Magnific Popup A responsive lightbox and dialog plugin for jQuery and Zepto.js. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	27.1%
3	jQuery Mousewheel A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	13.9%
4	Google URL Shortener Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated link service from Google. Legacy	10.8%
5	Moment.js San Francisco, California, United States An open-source JavaScript library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	9.9%
6	jQuery Cookie A deprecated jQuery plugin for reading, writing and deleting cookies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	8%
7	Skrollr Standalone parallax scrolling JavaScript library for mobile (Android, iOS) and desktop in about 12k minified. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	4.7%
8	iLightBox A commercial jQuery lightbox plugin. $16+Legacy	3.7%
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	3.1%
10	AddThis Austin, Texas, United States A social bookmarking service that discontinued its services on May 31, 2023. FreeLegacy	2.8%
11	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	2.8%
12	Adobe Flash San Jose, California, United States A discontinued multimedia software platform for creating animations and interactive apps. Legacy	2.4%
13	ASP Redmond, Washington, United States A server-side scripting language and dynamic web page engine. FreeLegacy	1.9%
14	Picturefill A responsive image polyfill for <picture>, srcset, sizes, and more. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.5%
15	jQuery LazyLoad A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1.2%
16	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%
17	CentOS Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A discontinued open-source Linux distribution compatible with RHEL. Legacy	0.9%
18	Messenger Customer Chat Menlo Park, California, United States The website chat widget from Meta that was retired in May 2024. Legacy	0.9%
19	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%
20	AngularJS Mountain View, California, United States A discontinued open-source web framework from Google that has been superseded by Angular. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.8%
21	Critters San Francisco, California, United States A deprecated Webpack plugin that inlines your app's critical CSS and lazily loads the rest. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.6%
22	Google Funding Choices Mountain View, California, United States A messaging tool for GDPR and CCPA compliance and ad blocking recovery. Legacy	0.6%
23	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	0.6%
24	Oracle Moat Austin, Texas, United States A measurement and marketing analytics suite designed to measure media performance across digital and TV advertising campaigns. Legacy	0.6%
25	Cufon A discontinued JavaScript library that performs text replacement on web pages, using the canvas element and VML to render fancy fonts. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.5%

👉 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 18,941 websites from South Africa.
We currently track the presence of 124 legacy technologies across the web.
Of these, 71 were detected on websites from South Africa.
Statistics were last calculated on August 4, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.