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
138
Open Page Rank 8+
4
2,335
Open Page Rank 7+
6
9,237
Open Page Rank 6+
7
17,618
Open Page Rank 5+
7
30,307
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
203,434
India
10
131,454
Brazil
8
113,648
Germany
10
86,831
United Kingdom
17
86,486
France
10
72,176
Canada
11
63,877
Indonesia
8
61,161
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | GOV.UK Elements | Tailwind CSS |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.1 s | 2.1 s |
| INP | 50 ms | 100 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 550 ms | 700 ms |
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.