shadcn/ui vs Tailwind CSS

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

Top sites by authority

shadcn/ui · 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

shadcn/ui · Tailwind CSS · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 42,391

203,434

India 29,576

131,454

Brazil 24,698

113,648

United Kingdom 14,015

86,486

Germany 12,975

86,831

France 11,203

72,176

Canada 11,957

63,877

Indonesia 11,526

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 shadcn/ui sites · All Tailwind CSS sites