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 125,248

4,175

India 76,777

1,376

Brazil 58,516

866

Germany 50,567

1,437

United Kingdom 41,827

1,491

Italy 42,082

1,040

France 37,604

1,129

Spain 33,908

944

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, 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.

All Animate.css sites · All Pure CSS sites