Headless UI vs Tailwind CSS

Tailwind CSS is used by more websites in our catalog: 2,125 use Headless UI and 7,759 use Tailwind CSS.

Headless UI sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Headless UI: 42, Tailwind CSS: 35).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Headless UI went from 0.30% to 0.24% of all tracked sites, while Tailwind CSS went from 1.1% to 0.88%. Headless UI is gaining ground faster in our index.

345 websites in our catalog use both Headless UI and Tailwind 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.