GOV.UK Elements vs Tailwind CSS
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
GOV.UK Elements · Tailwind CSS · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
0
144
Open Page Rank 8+
4
2,378
Open Page Rank 7+
5
9,409
Open Page Rank 6+
6
17,968
Open Page Rank 5+
6
30,920
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
GOV.UK Elements · Tailwind CSS · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
12
220,170
India
10
138,926
Brazil
8
120,568
United Kingdom
17
90,607
Germany
10
89,244
France
10
75,646
Canada
11
66,637
Indonesia
7
64,082
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | GOV.UK Elements | Tailwind CSS |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.3 s | 2.1 s |
| INP | 50 ms | 100 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 600 ms | 700 ms |
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.