A side-by-side comparison of two ui & css frameworks, based on the 204,967 UI Framework sites tracked by Site Stats Database.
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| Metric | Material Design Lite | Normalize.css |
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| Websites | 270 | 15,704 |
| Market share | 0.13% | 7.7% |
| Share of top 10K sites | 0.06% | 1.4% |
| Share of top 100K sites | 0.04% | 1.9% |
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| Rank | #26 | #3 |
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| Median DR | 41 | 27 |
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| Average DR | 42 | 31 |
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| Median keywords | 867 | 1,129 |
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| Median referring domains | 557 | 395 |
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| Median domain age | 14 yrs | 16 yrs |
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| Average domain age | 16 yrs | 16 yrs |
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| Average monthly traffic | 146,626 | 71,624 |
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| Combined monthly traffic | 39,588,889 | 1,124,787,303 |
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Monthly snapshots of each segment, 2026-06 to 2026-07. Website counts move when our catalog grows; the share of tracked sites is normalized, so it only moves when real prevalence changes.
Websites
Share of tracked sites
Combined monthly traffic
270 websites · rank #26
Top industries
Top markets
15,704 websites · rank #3
Top industries
Top markets
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.
Citation
Site Stats Database. "Material Design Lite vs Normalize.css." Site Stats Database, July 1, 2026. https://sitestatsdb.com/technologies/ui-frameworks/compare/material-design-lite-vs-normalize-css
Site Stats Database tracks 270 websites using Material Design Lite and 15,704 using Normalize.css, each enriched with full monthly traffic history, authority, keywords, referring domains, and the complete detected tech stack. We detect every UI / CSS framework by crawling each site's HTML, response headers, and DNS; traffic and SEO metrics come from DataForSEO and Ahrefs. Everything refreshes at least monthly.
See plans & pricing| English |
| 99 |
| 26,456 |
| 68,265 |
| 28 yrs |
| 8,503,282 |
| Material Design Lite |
| checkiday.com | English | 62 | 51,054 | 4,105 | 15 yrs | 2,762,633 | Material Design Lite |
| world-geography-games.com | English | 60 | 17,509 | 4,523 | 13 yrs | 1,721,381 | Material Design Lite |
| harriscountyso.org | English | 63 | 15,411 | 2,296 | 13 yrs | 1,161,991 | Material Design Lite |
| clxgaming.com | English | 52 | 10,515 | 1,079 | 8 yrs | 968,972 | Material Design Lite |
| theholocaustexplained.org | English | 58 | 18,857 | 3,843 | 16 yrs | 812,519 | Material Design Lite |
| seatingchartmaker.app | English | 24 | 3,045 | 1,002 | 7 yrs | 763,500 | Material Design Lite |
| onehourheatandair.com | English | 69 | 37,601 | 4,017 | 20 yrs | 731,190 | Material Design Lite |
| geo-fs.com | English | 51 | 2,818 | 1,818 | 9 yrs | 520,467 | Material Design Lite |
| English |
| 81 |
| 2,723,655 |
| 43,384 |
| 26 yrs |
| 59,711,793 |
| Normalize.css |
| 100daysofrealfood.com | English | 68 | 71,262 | 9,393 | 16 yrs | 22,075,250 | Normalize.css |
| mybib.com | English | 59 | 22,140 | 2,474 | 22 yrs | 14,671,199 | Normalize.css |
| wanderlog.com | English | 77 | 3,118,616 | 18,762 | 18 yrs | 12,973,461 | Normalize.css |
| canvaslms.com | English | 80 | 5,426 | 13,632 | 15 yrs | 9,394,607 | Normalize.css |
| runrepeat.com | English | 76 | 170,658 | 16,642 | 11 yrs | 8,470,274 | Normalize.css |
| gasprices.aaa.com | English | 88 | 51,655 | 13,367 | 35 yrs | 8,412,374 | Normalize.css |
| forum.wordreference.com | English | 80 | 947,575 | 18,031 | 27 yrs | 8,231,153 | Normalize.css |
| battlefields.org | English | 77 | 152,617 | 16,597 | 12 yrs | 7,861,517 | Normalize.css |