NSW Design System vs Tailwind CSS
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
NSW Design System · Tailwind CSS · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
0
144
Open Page Rank 8+
3
2,426
Open Page Rank 7+
4
9,686
Open Page Rank 6+
8
18,516
Open Page Rank 5+
10
31,900
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
NSW Design System · Tailwind CSS · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
16
220,170
India
13
138,926
Brazil
7
120,568
United Kingdom
11
90,607
Germany
10
89,244
France
8
75,646
Canada
7
66,637
Indonesia
6
64,082
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | NSW Design System | Tailwind CSS |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.9 s | 2.1 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 100 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 900 ms | 700 ms |
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.