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+
144
23
Open Page Rank 8+
2,426
145
Open Page Rank 7+
9,686
234
Open Page Rank 6+
18,516
280
Open Page Rank 5+
31,900
325
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
220,170
605
India
138,926
270
Brazil
120,568
162
United Kingdom
90,607
210
Germany
89,244
152
France
75,646
135
Canada
66,637
236
Indonesia
64,082
157
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, 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.
USWDS to Tailwind CSS
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| fws.gov | Aug 2026 |