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 2,428

203,434

India 1,747

131,454

Brazil 1,073

113,648

Germany 1,146

86,831

United Kingdom 1,194

86,486

France 1,016

72,176

Canada 955

63,877

Indonesia 961

61,161

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 Base UI sites · All Tailwind CSS sites