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+
136
17
Open Page Rank 8+
2,252
131
Open Page Rank 7+
8,867
279
Open Page Rank 6+
16,799
399
Open Page Rank 5+
28,747
554
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
202,429
2,305
India
128,845
2,546
United Kingdom
88,730
1,006
Germany
88,540
991
Brazil
83,542
999
France
77,327
976
Canada
66,622
799
Indonesia
63,126
1,336
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Tailwind CSS | W3.CSS |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.1 s | 1.7 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 700 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.
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 |
|---|---|
| chienbinhlucy.com | May 2026 |
| sulcuslearning.com | Nov 2025 |
| smarterdharma.com | Oct 2025 |
| lotteryviet.com | Oct 2025 |