Pure CSS vs Shoelace

Pure CSS is used by more websites in our catalog: 816 use Pure CSS and 599 use Shoelace.

Pure CSS sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Pure CSS: 32, Shoelace: 29).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Pure CSS went from 0.11% to 0.09% of all tracked sites, while Shoelace went from 0.08% to 0.07%. Shoelace is gaining ground faster in our index.

16 websites in our catalog use both Pure CSS and Shoelace.

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.