🆚 Critters vs. Vanilla LazyLoad
- 📈 Vanilla LazyLoad is noticeably more popular than Critters.
- 🌎 Vanilla LazyLoad is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Russia.
- 🌎 Critters is more popular in Germany, Brazil, and Colombia.
Statistics based on 3.8M+ 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 It has been superseded by Beasties.
LazyLoad is a lightweight and flexible script that speeds up your web application by delaying the loading of your below-the-fold images, videos and iframes until they enter the viewport.
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️ Open source
Free ✔️ Open source
Categories
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #164
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #117
Performance Optimization › Rank #22
Performance Optimization › Rank #18
Legacy › Rank #34
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Vanilla LazyLoad JavaScript library is 1.9 times more popular than Critters.
Total websites
Market share
JavaScript Libraries
Performance Optimization
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Vanilla LazyLoad is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Russia, while Critters is more popular in Germany, Brazil, and Colombia.
United States
United Kingdom
Russia
India
Germany
France
Netherlands
Brazil
Italy
Spain
Awards
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Colombia in the Legacy category.
- ⭐ 10th most popular in Colombia in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🔥 17th most popular in India in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🔥 17th most popular in Brazil in the Performance Optimization category.
- ⬆️ 21st most popular in Switzerland in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in Taiwan in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in Russia in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in Greece in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in Turkey in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in the Czech Republic in the Performance Optimization category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Vanilla 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, public information, and government and military sites.
Business
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Internet Services
Travel
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Health
Entertainment
Real Estate
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 3,814,833 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.

