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 4,641

202,429

India 1,531

128,845

United Kingdom 1,692

88,730

Germany 1,719

88,540

Brazil 977

83,542

France 1,385

77,327

Canada 1,161

66,622

Indonesia 940

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 Pure CSS sites · All Tailwind CSS sites