Base UI vs Tailwind CSS
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Base UI · Tailwind CSS · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
7
136
Open Page Rank 8+
50
2,252
Open Page Rank 7+
124
8,867
Open Page Rank 6+
196
16,799
Open Page Rank 5+
281
28,747
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Base UI · Tailwind CSS · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
1,157
202,429
India
823
128,845
United Kingdom
595
88,730
Germany
562
88,540
Brazil
461
83,542
France
502
77,327
Canada
491
66,622
Indonesia
481
63,126
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Base UI | Tailwind CSS |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.2 s | 2.1 s |
| INP | 125 ms | 100 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 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.
Base UI to Tailwind CSS
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| bebo.com | May 2026 |
Tailwind CSS to Base UI
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| aistage.net | May 2026 |
| clickplanos.com.br | Mar 2026 |
| republicacelular.com | Mar 2026 |
| imast.in | Feb 2026 |
| base-ui.com | Feb 2026 |
| tilecloud.com.au | Feb 2026 |
| vipps.no | Dec 2025 |
| vipps.se | Dec 2025 |
| mobilepay.dk | Dec 2025 |
| mamfach.pl | Dec 2025 |
| firetiger.com | Dec 2025 |
| mobilepay.fi | Dec 2025 |