Material Design Lite vs Tailwind CSS

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

Top sites by authority

Material Design Lite · 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

Material Design Lite · Tailwind CSS · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 17,523

202,429

India 7,655

128,845

United Kingdom 6,852

88,730

Germany 6,516

88,540

Brazil 5,562

83,542

France 5,849

77,327

Canada 5,133

66,622

Indonesia 3,542

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 Material Design Lite sites · All Tailwind CSS sites