Animate.css vs Pure CSS

Animate.css is used by more websites in our catalog: 47,649 use Animate.css and 816 use Pure CSS.

Pure CSS sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Animate.css: 25, Pure CSS: 32).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Animate.css went from 5.5% to 5.4% of all tracked sites, while Pure CSS went from 0.11% to 0.09%. Pure CSS is gaining ground faster in our index.

45 websites in our catalog use both Animate.css and Pure CSS.

Adoption is counted from Site Stats Database's own crawl; Domain Rating comes from Ahrefs and traffic from DataForSEO. Figures reflect the sites we track and refresh at least monthly.