Animate.css vs Pico CSS
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Animate.css · Pico CSS · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
58
4
Open Page Rank 8+
800
14
Open Page Rank 7+
2,931
19
Open Page Rank 6+
5,717
25
Open Page Rank 5+
10,479
31
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Animate.css · Pico CSS · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
121,468
138
India
74,963
101
Brazil
57,204
83
Germany
48,702
77
Italy
43,985
58
United Kingdom
41,293
72
France
37,783
80
Spain
36,029
72
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Animate.css | Pico CSS |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.2 s | 1.4 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 900 ms | 600 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Sep 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.
Sites that switched
Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.
Pico CSS to Animate.css
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| lospipitos.org | Apr 2026 |