🆚 Beasties vs. Critters
Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *- 📈 Critters is twice as popular as Beasties.
- 🌎 Critters is more popular in the United States, Germany, and France.
- 🌍 Beasties is more popular in Sweden, Israel, and Bulgaria.
Beasties
CrittersType
JavaScript library
JavaScript library
About
Beasties is a plugin that inlines your app's critical CSS and lazy-loads the rest. It is a maintained fork of Critters.
Critters is a deprecated Webpack plugin that inlines your app's critical CSS and lazily loads the rest. It has been superseded by Beasties.
Headquarters
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
San Francisco, California, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #193
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #163
Performance › Rank #25
Performance › Rank #23
Legacy › Rank #32
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Critters JavaScript library is 1.8 times more popular than Beasties.
Total websites
Market share
JavaScript Libraries
Performance
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Critters is more popular in the United States, Germany, and France, while Beasties is more popular in Sweden, Israel, and Bulgaria.
United States
Germany
France
India
United Kingdom
Brazil
Netherlands
Spain
Switzerland
Russia
Awards
- 🔥 20th most popular in Switzerland in the Performance category.
- ⬆️ 21st most popular in Sweden in the Performance category.
- ⬆️ 24th most popular in Germany in the Performance category.
- ⬆️ 24th most popular in France in the Performance category.
- ⬆️ 24th most popular in the Netherlands in the Performance category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Saudi Arabia in the Legacy category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in Saudi Arabia in the Performance category.
- 🔥 15th most popular in Chile in the Performance category.
- 🔥 16th most popular in Argentina in the Performance category.
- 🔥 17th most popular in India in the Performance category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Critters is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and online shopping, while Beasties is more commonly used on fashion and beauty, and general news sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Finance/Banking
Travel
Internet Services
Education/Reference
Health
Real Estate
Entertainment
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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