GOV.UK Frontend vs Tailwind CSS
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
GOV.UK Frontend · 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
GOV.UK Frontend · Tailwind CSS · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
171
203,434
India
151
131,454
Brazil
56
113,648
United Kingdom
534
86,486
Germany
105
86,831
France
102
72,176
Canada
88
63,877
Indonesia
62
61,161
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | GOV.UK Frontend | Tailwind CSS |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.4 s | 2.1 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 100 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 500 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.
Sites that switched
Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.