🆚 Critters vs. jQuery LazyLoad
- 📈 jQuery LazyLoad is four times more popular than Critters.
- 🌎 jQuery LazyLoad is more popular in China, the United States, and Japan.
- 🌍 Critters is more popular in Colombia, Saudi Arabia, and Georgia.
Statistics based on 4M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
JavaScript library
JavaScript library
About
Critters is a deprecated Webpack plugin that inlines your app's critical CSS and lazily loads the rest. It has been superseded by Beasties.
A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin.
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Finland
Pricing
Free ✔️ Open source
Free ✔️ Open source
Categories
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #167
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #77
Performance Optimization › Rank #23
Performance Optimization › Rank #12
Legacy › Rank #36
Legacy › Rank #14
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The jQuery LazyLoad JavaScript library is 4 times more popular than Critters.
Total websites
Market share
JavaScript Libraries
Performance Optimization
Legacy
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
jQuery LazyLoad is more popular in China, the United States, and Japan, while Critters is more popular in Colombia, Saudi Arabia, and Georgia.
China
United States
Japan
Korea
Germany
Brazil
France
Italy
Russia
United Kingdom
Awards
- ⭐ 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.
- 🥉 Third most popular in China in the Legacy category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in China in the Performance Optimization category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Korea in the Legacy category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Korea in the Performance Optimization category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Turkey in the Legacy category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
jQuery LazyLoad is more popular among sites focused on business, online shopping, and marketing and merchandising, while Critters is more commonly used on finance and banking sites.
Business
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Internet Services
Education/Reference
Entertainment
Travel
Blogs/Wiki
General News
Health
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
See also
🗃️ 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.

