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+
5
138
Open Page Rank 8+
14
2,335
Open Page Rank 7+
19
9,237
Open Page Rank 6+
26
17,618
Open Page Rank 5+
32
30,307
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
142
203,434
India
104
131,454
Brazil
86
113,648
Germany
77
86,831
United Kingdom
70
86,486
France
83
72,176
Canada
73
63,877
Indonesia
74
61,161
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Pico CSS | Tailwind CSS |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.5 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, Aug 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 |
Tailwind CSS to Pico CSS
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| withfriends.events | Sep 2025 |