🆚 Beasties vs. css-vars-ponyfill
- 📈 css-vars-ponyfill is twice as popular as Beasties.
- 🌎 css-vars-ponyfill is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Beasties is more popular in Ukraine, Hungary, and Argentina.
Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data
BeastiesType
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.
Client-side support for CSS custom properties (aka "CSS variables") in legacy and modern browsers.
Headquarters
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
GitHubPricing
Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #193
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #142
Performance Optimization › Rank #26
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The css-vars-ponyfill JavaScript library is 2.5 times more popular than Beasties.
Total websites
Market share
JavaScript Libraries
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
css-vars-ponyfill is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while Beasties is more popular in Ukraine, Hungary, and Argentina.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Japan
France
Canada
Australia
Netherlands
India
Austria
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.
- ⬆️ 76th most popular in Austria in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 87th most popular in New Zealand in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 95th most popular in Finland in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 101st most popular in Denmark in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 103rd most popular in Canada in the JavaScript Libraries category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
css-vars-ponyfill is more popular among sites focused on online shopping, business, and marketing and merchandising, while Beasties is more commonly used on finance and banking, public information, and software and hardware sites.
Online Shopping
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
General News
Fashion/Beauty
Travel
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Entertainment
Health
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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StyleX🗃️ 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 3,531,795 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.