Pico CSS vs Tailwind CSS
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Pico CSS · Tailwind CSS · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
4
144
Open Page Rank 8+
14
2,378
Open Page Rank 7+
19
9,409
Open Page Rank 6+
25
17,968
Open Page Rank 5+
31
30,920
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Pico CSS · Tailwind CSS · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
138
220,170
India
101
138,926
Brazil
83
120,568
United Kingdom
72
90,607
Germany
77
89,244
France
80
75,646
Canada
73
66,637
Indonesia
74
64,082
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Pico CSS | Tailwind CSS |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.4 s | 2.1 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 100 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 600 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.
Sites that switched
Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.
Pico CSS to Tailwind CSS
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| ucoz.ru | Apr 2026 |