Material Design Lite vs Tailwind CSS

Tailwind CSS is used by more websites in our catalog: 270 use Material Design Lite and 7,759 use Tailwind CSS.

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

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Material Design Lite went from 0.04% to 0.03% of all tracked sites, while Tailwind CSS went from 1.1% to 0.88%. Material Design Lite is gaining ground faster in our index.

2 websites in our catalog use both Material Design Lite 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.