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+
60
5
Open Page Rank 8+
814
14
Open Page Rank 7+
3,000
19
Open Page Rank 6+
5,860
26
Open Page Rank 5+
10,740
32
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
125,248
142
India
76,777
104
Brazil
58,516
86
Germany
50,567
77
Italy
42,082
60
United Kingdom
41,827
70
France
37,604
83
Spain
33,908
62
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Animate.css | Pico CSS |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.2 s | 1.5 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 900 ms | 600 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Aug 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 |