Legacy Technologies Ranked #26–#50 in South Africa by Market Share (2026)

📈 Legacy Technologies Ranked #26–#50 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.

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

The following list shows the legacy technologies ranked from 26th to 50th out of 71 used on websites in South Africa.

Rank	Name	Market share
26	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	0.5%
27	Prerender Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A deprecated browser hint that instructed web browsers to preload and render a web page in the background before navigation occurred. Legacy	0.4%
28	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	0.4%
29	SWFObject A deprecated framework for detecting the Adobe Flash Player plugin and embedding Flash files. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.4%
30	Closure Library Mountain View, California, United States A low-level JavaScript library designed for building complex and scalable web applications. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.4%
31	Adobe Muse San Jose, California, United States A discontinued desktop application for designing web pages with intuitive, visual tools. $24.99+/monthLegacy	0.4%
32	YUI New York, United States A legacy, open-source JavaScript and CSS library for building interactive web applications with a focus on modular architecture and cross-browser consistency. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.4%
33	Turbolinks Chicago, Illinois, United States A JavaScript library that allows web apps to behave like a single page application. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.4%
34	iScroll A high-performance JavaScript library for smooth scrolling. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.3%
35	Google Sign-In Mountain View, California, United States A deprecated JavaScript library that has been superseded by Google Identity services for Web. FreeLegacy	0.3%
36	Alexa Seattle, Washington, United States A web traffic analysis service from Amazon that was discontinued in 2022. Legacy	0.3%
37	NetObjects Fusion Redwood City, California, United States A discontinued web design software for Windows and Mac OS. $163.95Legacy	0.3%
38	Serif WebPlus Sydney, Australia A legacy WYSIWYG website builder for Microsoft Windows that was discontinued in 2016. Legacy	0.2%
39	Shadowbox A lightbox library for photos and videos, last released in 2014. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.2%
40	Oribi Mountain View, California, United States An all-in-one marketing analytics solution acquired by LinkedIn. Legacy	0.2%
41	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	0.2%
42	Lightbox for Bootstrap A lightbox module for Bootstrap that supports images, YouTube videos and galleries - built around Bootstrap's Modal plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.2%
43	Prefix-free A legacy script that adds browser prefixes to CSS code when needed for old browsers. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.2%
44	MSHTML Redmond, Washington, United States An editor based on the MSHTML component of the discontinued Internet Explorer browser. Legacy	0.1%
45	Google +1 Button Mountain View, California, United States The sharing button code for the discontinued Google +1 service. Legacy	0.1%
46	Spry San Jose, California, United States A deprecated JavaScript framework by Adobe that enables the rapid development of Ajax-powered web pages. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.1%
47	J2Store Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India An open-source e-commerce extension for Joomla that is no longer maintained. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.1%
48	Audience Studio San Francisco, California, United States A data management platform that was retired in February 2024. Legacy	0.1%
49	iWeb Cupertino, California, United States A WYSIWYG template-based website building tool that had been released by Apple Inc. from 2006 to 2011. Legacy	0.1%
50	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	0.1%

👉 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.