🆚 Beasties vs. css-vars-ponyfill
- 📈 css-vars-ponyfill is noticeably more popular than Beasties.
- 🌎 css-vars-ponyfill is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan.
- 🌍 Beasties is more popular in Germany, France, and Switzerland.
Statistics based on 3.8M+ 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 #170
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #135
Performance Optimization › Rank #25
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The css-vars-ponyfill JavaScript library is 1.6 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, the United Kingdom, and Japan, while Beasties is more popular in Germany, France, and Switzerland.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Japan
Canada
France
Australia
Netherlands
Austria
India
Awards
- 🔥 16th most popular in Germany in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🔥 17th most popular in Switzerland in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🔥 19th most popular in Sweden 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.
- ⬆️ 68th most popular in Austria in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 72nd most popular in Finland in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 93rd most popular in Denmark in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 94th most popular in Canada in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 94th most popular in New Zealand 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 Internet services, finance and banking, and software and hardware sites.
Online Shopping
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Fashion/Beauty
General News
Travel
Internet Services
Education/Reference
Entertainment
Real Estate
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
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 3,814,833 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.