Headless UI vs Pure CSS

Headless UI is used by more websites in our catalog: 2,125 use Headless UI and 816 use Pure CSS.

Headless UI sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Headless UI: 42, Pure CSS: 32).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Headless UI went from 0.30% to 0.24% of all tracked sites, while Pure CSS went from 0.11% to 0.09%. Pure CSS is gaining ground faster in our index.

0 websites in our catalog use both Headless UI 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.