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+
138
15
Open Page Rank 8+
2,335
125
Open Page Rank 7+
9,237
274
Open Page Rank 6+
17,618
391
Open Page Rank 5+
30,307
537
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
203,434
2,038
India
131,454
2,209
Brazil
113,648
900
Germany
86,831
889
United Kingdom
86,486
878
France
72,176
814
Canada
63,877
700
Indonesia
61,161
1,104
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, 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.
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 |
| chienbinhlucy.com | May 2026 |
| sulcuslearning.com | Nov 2025 |
| smarterdharma.com | Oct 2025 |
| lotteryviet.com | Oct 2025 |