🆚 Beasties vs. Critters
- 📈 Critters is noticeably more popular than Beasties.
- 🌎 Critters is more popular in the United States, Germany, and France.
- 🌍 Beasties is more popular in Sweden, Israel, and Bulgaria.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
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 It has been superseded by Beasties.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 #194
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #163
Performance Optimization › Rank #25
Performance Optimization › Rank #23
Legacy › Rank #33
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 Optimization
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 Optimization category.
- ⬆️ 21st most popular in Sweden in the Performance Optimization category.
- ⬆️ 23rd most popular in Germany in the Performance Optimization category.
- ⬆️ 23rd most popular in Ukraine in the Performance Optimization category.
- ⬆️ 24th most popular in France in the Performance Optimization category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Saudi Arabia in the Legacy category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in Saudi Arabia in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🔥 15th most popular in Chile in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🔥 16th most popular in Argentina in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🔥 17th most popular in India in the Performance Optimization 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
Internet Services
Finance/Banking
Travel
Education/Reference
Health
Entertainment
Real Estate
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Partytown🗃️ 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 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.