🆚 Beasties vs. Critters
- 📈 Critters is slightly more popular than Beasties.
- 🌎 Critters is more popular in the United States, India, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Beasties is more popular in Germany, France, and the Netherlands.
Statistics based on 4M+ 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 It has been superseded by Beasties.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 #171
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #167
Performance Optimization › Rank #25
Performance Optimization › Rank #23
Legacy › Rank #36
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
France
India
United Kingdom
Brazil
Spain
Netherlands
Switzerland
Poland
Awards
- 🔥 16th most popular in Germany in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🔥 17th most popular in Switzerland in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🔥 20th most popular in France in the Performance Optimization category.
- ⬆️ 21st most popular in Russia in the Performance Optimization category.
- ⬆️ 22nd most popular in Poland in the Performance Optimization category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Colombia in the Legacy category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in Colombia in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🔥 17th most popular in India in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🔥 18th most popular in Brazil in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🔥 18th most popular in Belgium 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, online shopping, and Internet services, while Beasties is more commonly used on marketing and merchandising, sports, and general news 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.
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Technologies with similar characteristics.
🗃️ 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 4,001,723 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.