Pure CSS vs Tailwind CSS

Tailwind CSS is used by more websites in our catalog: 816 use Pure CSS and 7,759 use Tailwind CSS.

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

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Pure CSS went from 0.11% to 0.09% of all tracked sites, while Tailwind CSS went from 1.1% to 0.88%. Pure CSS is gaining ground faster in our index.

5 websites in our catalog use both Pure CSS 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.