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 11,471

202,429

India 6,660

128,845

United Kingdom 5,860

88,730

Germany 5,452

88,540

Brazil 3,969

83,542

France 4,889

77,327

Canada 4,763

66,622

Indonesia 4,061

63,126

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, Jun 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