Tailwind CSS vs USWDS
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Tailwind CSS · USWDS · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
138
22
Open Page Rank 8+
2,335
144
Open Page Rank 7+
9,237
233
Open Page Rank 6+
17,618
280
Open Page Rank 5+
30,307
318
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Tailwind CSS · USWDS · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
203,434
610
India
131,454
269
Brazil
113,648
163
Germany
86,831
152
United Kingdom
86,486
197
France
72,176
131
Canada
63,877
228
Indonesia
61,161
150
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Tailwind CSS | USWDS |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.1 s | 1.4 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 600 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.