🆚 AMP vs. Pure CSS

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 AMP is much more popular than Pure CSS.
🌎 AMP is more popular in Indonesia, the United States, and Turkey.
🌍 Pure CSS is more popular in Lithuania.

Type

Website component

User interface framework

About

AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) is an open-source HTML framework for creating lightweight pages that are optimized for mobile web browsing and load faster.

Pure CSS is a lightweight, responsive CSS framework developed by Yahoo for building fast and minimal web interfaces.

It provides a responsive grid system and basic styles for forms, buttons, tables, and menus. It is modular, with the entire set of modules under 4 KB when minified and gzipped.

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States

New York, United States

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Free ✔️Open source

Categories

Components › Rank #2

UI Frameworks › Rank #5

UI Frameworks › Rank #16

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

AMP component technology is 15 times more popular than Pure CSS.

Total websites

Market share

UI Frameworks

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

AMP is more popular in Indonesia, the United States, and Turkey, while Pure CSS is more popular in Lithuania.

Indonesia

United States

Turkey

United Kingdom

Russia

India

Brazil

Japan

Germany

France

Awards

🥇 Most popular in Indonesia in the Components category.
🥇 Most popular in Turkey in the Components category.
🥇 Most popular in India in the Components category.
🥇 Most popular in Singapore in the Components category.
🥇 Most popular in Vietnam in the Components category.

⭐ 4th most popular in Lithuania in the UI Frameworks category.
⭐ 8th most popular in Japan in the UI Frameworks category.
⭐ 10th most popular in Sweden in the UI Frameworks category.
⭐ 10th most popular in the Czech Republic in the UI Frameworks category.
🔥 11st most popular in the United Kingdom in the UI Frameworks category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

AMP is more popular than Pure CSS in all market segments.

Blogs/Wiki

Business

General News

Marketing/Merchandising

Online Shopping

Entertainment

Education/Reference

Internet Services

Travel

Sports

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#18

xhamster.com

#24

#39

#54

xvideos.com

#59

Name

Rank

#348

#715

#2,914

#2,990

#6,105

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Statistics were last calculated on March 31, 2026.
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