Animate.css vs Pure CSS

Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.

Top sites by authority

Animate.css · Pure CSS · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers

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 · Pure CSS · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 141,957

4,641

India 88,802

1,531

Germany 64,757

1,719

Brazil 65,075

977

Italy 50,652

1,227

United Kingdom 48,133

1,692

France 45,785

1,385

Spain 40,200

1,068

Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.

Real user performance

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.

All Animate.css sites · All Pure CSS sites