🆚 Beasties vs. Lazy loading
- 📈 Lazy loading is much more popular than Beasties.
- 🌍 Lazy loading is more popular in all countries.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
BeastiesType
JavaScript library
Performance optimization technology
About
Beasties is a plugin that inlines your app's critical 
CSS and lazy-loads the rest. It is a maintained fork of Critters.
Native lazy loading is a technique to load non-critical images and iframes marked with the loading="lazy" attribute only when needed.
Headquarters
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
GitHub
html.spec.whatwg.orgPricing
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #194
Performance Optimization › Rank #25
Performance Optimization › Rank #1
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Lazy loading performance optimization technology is 610 times more popular than Beasties.
Total websites
Market share
Performance Optimization
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Lazy loading is more popular than Beasties in all countries.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
France
Japan
Spain
Italy
Netherlands
Australia
Brazil
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.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥇 Most popular in France in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Spain in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the Netherlands in the Performance Optimization category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Lazy loading is more popular than Beasties in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Travel
Entertainment
Health
General News
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Partytown🗃️ 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 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.