What is the best alternative to Tailwind CSS?

By number of websites, the most widely used alternatives to Tailwind CSS are Bootstrap, Animate.css, Normalize.css, Foundation, Element UI. The right one depends on your needs; compare them on adoption, authority, and audience above.

How many alternatives to Tailwind CSS are there?

Site Stats Database tracks 28 other ui & css frameworks used by 100 or more websites, plus a long tail of rarer ones. Tailwind CSS itself is used by 7,759 websites.

Which UI / CSS framework has the most websites?

Bootstrap leads this category with 126,851 websites in our catalog.

Where does this data come from?

Adoption is counted from Site Stats Database's own crawl; authority (Ahrefs Domain Rating) and traffic come from Ahrefs and DataForSEO. Everything reflects the sites we track and refreshes at least monthly.

Tailwind CSS Alternatives & Competitors

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Looking for an alternative to Tailwind CSS? Site Stats Database tracks 28 other ui & css frameworks; the top ones are below, ranked by adoption, with authority and traffic for each and the leading sites that use them. Tailwind CSS itself is used by 7,759 websites. Back to Tailwind CSS.

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The top Tailwind CSS alternatives in depth

Bootstrap

#1 in UI & CSS Frameworks · 126,851 websites

Bootstrap is a popular front-end CSS framework for responsive layouts and prebuilt components. Originally from Twitter, it lets developers assemble consistent, mobile-friendly interfaces quickly. It remains one of the most common UI frameworks on the web.

126,851

Websites

61.9%

Share of UI Framework

Median DR

4,520

Median traffic

Top sites using Bootstrap