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 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 4,051

220,170

India 3,069

138,926

Brazil 1,959

120,568

United Kingdom 2,061

90,607

Germany 1,936

89,244

France 1,716

75,646

Canada 1,687

66,637

Indonesia 1,809

64,082

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 Base UI sites · All Tailwind CSS sites