Headless UI vs Material Design Lite

Headless UI is used by more websites in our catalog: 2,125 use Headless UI and 270 use Material Design Lite.

Headless UI sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Headless UI: 42, Material Design Lite: 41).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Headless UI went from 0.30% to 0.24% 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.

1 websites in our catalog use both Headless UI 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.