Foundation vs Material Design Lite

Foundation is used by more websites in our catalog: 8,731 use Foundation and 270 use Material Design Lite.

Material Design Lite sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Foundation: 32, Material Design Lite: 41).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Foundation went from 1.1% to 0.99% of all tracked sites, while Material Design Lite went from 0.04% to 0.03%. Material Design Lite is gaining ground faster in our index.

6 websites in our catalog use both Foundation and Material Design Lite.

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.