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+
59
5
Open Page Rank 8+
810
18
Open Page Rank 7+
3,052
22
Open Page Rank 6+
6,035
28
Open Page Rank 5+
11,137
35
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
141,957
150
India
88,802
104
Brazil
65,075
92
Germany
64,757
88
Italy
50,652
66
United Kingdom
48,133
75
France
45,785
83
Spain
40,200
67
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Animate.css | Pico CSS |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.2 s | 1.6 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 900 ms | 700 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Jun 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 |