Headless UI vs Tailwind CSS

Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.

Top sites by authority

Headless 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

Headless UI · Tailwind CSS · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 10,311

220,170

India 5,941

138,926

Brazil 3,562

120,568

United Kingdom 5,125

90,607

Germany 4,777

89,244

France 4,140

75,646

Canada 4,290

66,637

Indonesia 3,569

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 Headless UI sites · All Tailwind CSS sites