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 121,468

4,080

India 74,963

1,342

Brazil 57,204

864

Germany 48,702

1,414

Italy 43,985

1,063

United Kingdom 41,293

1,500

France 37,783

1,175

Spain 36,029

963

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, 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.

All Animate.css sites · All Pure CSS sites