Material Design Lite vs Materialize

Materialize is used by more websites in our catalog: 270 use Material Design Lite and 721 use Materialize.

Material Design Lite sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Material Design Lite: 41, Materialize: 35).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Material Design Lite went from 0.04% to 0.03% of all tracked sites, while Materialize went from 0.10% to 0.08%. Material Design Lite is gaining ground faster in our index.

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

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.