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+
136
22
Open Page Rank 8+
2,252
147
Open Page Rank 7+
8,867
231
Open Page Rank 6+
16,799
277
Open Page Rank 5+
28,747
317
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
202,429
668
India
128,845
295
United Kingdom
88,730
217
Germany
88,540
182
Brazil
83,542
174
France
77,327
171
Canada
66,622
262
Indonesia
63,126
183
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, 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.