Material Design Lite vs Normalize.css

Normalize.css is used by more websites in our catalog: 270 use Material Design Lite and 15,704 use Normalize.css.

Material Design Lite sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Material Design Lite: 41, Normalize.css: 27).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Material Design Lite went from 0.04% to 0.03% of all tracked sites, while Normalize.css went from 2.0% to 1.8%. Material Design Lite is gaining ground faster in our index.

11 websites in our catalog use both Material Design Lite and Normalize.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.