🆚 Beasties vs. jQuery

Beasties is a plugin that inlines your app's critical CSS and lazy-loads the rest. It is a maintained fork of Critters.

jQuery is a fast, small, feature-rich JavaScript library designed to simplify HTML DOM tree traversal and manipulation, event handling, CSS animations, and Ajax.

It provides a cross-browser selector engine, formerly known as Sizzle, supports deferred and promise objects for asynchronous workflows, has built-in JSON parsing and utility functions, and allows extensibility through a large ecosystem of plugins.

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

• 🔥 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.

• 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the JavaScript Libraries category.
• 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the JavaScript Libraries category.
• 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the JavaScript Libraries category.
• 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the JavaScript Libraries category.
• 🥇 Most popular in France in the JavaScript Libraries category.

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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• Beasties technology profile

• jQuery technology profile
• OpenJS Foundation company profile