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 45,327

220,170

India 31,505

138,926

Brazil 26,696

120,568

United Kingdom 15,163

90,607

Germany 13,703

89,244

France 12,055

75,646

Canada 12,699

66,637

Indonesia 12,315

64,082

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, 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.

All shadcn/ui sites · All Tailwind CSS sites