Material Design Lite vs W3.CSS

W3.CSS is used by more websites in our catalog: 270 use Material Design Lite and 1,051 use W3.CSS.

Material Design Lite sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Material Design Lite: 41, W3.CSS: 23).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Material Design Lite went from 0.04% to 0.03% of all tracked sites, while W3.CSS went from 0.13% to 0.12%. Material Design Lite is gaining ground faster in our index.

1 websites in our catalog use both Material Design Lite and W3.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.