🆚 Beasties vs. Critters

Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Beasties
Critters

Type

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 It has been superseded by Beasties.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

Website

GitHub #13
GitHub #13

Pricing

Free ✔️ Open source
Free ✔️ Open source

Categories

JavaScript Libraries › Rank #170
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #164
Performance Optimization › Rank #25
Performance Optimization › Rank #22
Legacy › Rank #34

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Critters JavaScript library is 1.1 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, India, and the United Kingdom, while Beasties is more popular in Germany, France, and the Netherlands.
United States
Germany
India
France
United Kingdom
Brazil
Netherlands
Spain
Switzerland
Poland

Awards

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 sports, general news, and fashion and beauty sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Internet Services
Travel
Finance/Banking
Education/Reference
Health
Entertainment
Real Estate

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#456
#867
#1,234
#1,255
#1,387
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Name
Rank
#597
#1,622
#1,660
#1,771
#1,858
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See also

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