Pure CSS vs Tailwind CSS

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

Top sites by authority

Pure CSS · 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

Pure CSS · Tailwind CSS · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 4,175

203,434

India 1,376

131,454

Brazil 866

113,648

Germany 1,437

86,831

United Kingdom 1,491

86,486

France 1,129

72,176

Canada 1,018

63,877

Indonesia 831

61,161

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, 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.

All Pure CSS sites · All Tailwind CSS sites