Materialize vs Pure CSS

Pure CSS is used by more websites in our catalog: 721 use Materialize and 816 use Pure CSS.

Materialize sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Materialize: 35, Pure CSS: 32).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Materialize went from 0.10% to 0.08% of all tracked sites, while Pure CSS went from 0.11% to 0.09%. Pure CSS is gaining ground faster in our index.

2 websites in our catalog use both Materialize and Pure 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.