🆚 Critters vs. jQuery

Critters is a deprecated Webpack plugin that inlines your app's critical CSS and lazily loads the rest. It has been superseded by Beasties.

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.

• ⭐ 8th most popular in Saudi Arabia in the Legacy category.
• 🔥 11st most popular in Saudi Arabia in the Performance Optimization category.
• 🔥 15th most popular in Chile in the Performance Optimization category.
• 🔥 16th most popular in Argentina in the Performance Optimization category.
• 🔥 17th most popular in India 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.

Compare alternatives

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• Critters vs. Beasties
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• jQuery vs. Prototype
• jQuery vs. Scriptaculous
• jQuery vs. Htmx
• jQuery vs. Zepto

• Critters technology profile

• jQuery technology profile
• OpenJS Foundation company profile