Tailwind CSS vs W3.CSS
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Tailwind CSS · W3.CSS · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
144
16
Open Page Rank 8+
2,426
122
Open Page Rank 7+
9,686
267
Open Page Rank 6+
18,516
380
Open Page Rank 5+
31,900
517
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 · W3.CSS · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
220,170
2,024
India
138,926
2,142
Brazil
120,568
872
United Kingdom
90,607
868
Germany
89,244
860
France
75,646
800
Canada
66,637
690
Indonesia
64,082
1,103
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Tailwind CSS | W3.CSS |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.1 s | 1.6 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 700 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.
W3.CSS to Tailwind CSS
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| olam18plus.com | Aug 2026 |
| kazki.com.ua | Jul 2026 |
| dailysangram.com | Jul 2026 |
| chienbinhlucy.com | May 2026 |
| sulcuslearning.com | Nov 2025 |
| smarterdharma.com | Oct 2025 |
| lotteryviet.com | Oct 2025 |