🆚 Codex vs. USWDS

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

Design system
Design system

About

Codex is the official design system for Wikimedia that provides a unified toolkit and guidelines for user interface design.

It includes design tokens for consistent styling, a library of UI components built for accessibility and internationalization, a set of icons with language and directionality variants, and supports Vue-based and CSS-only implementations.

The United States Web Design System helps the federal government build fast, accessible, mobile-friendly websites.

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States
Washington, D.C., United States

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Categories

Design Systems › Rank #5
Design Systems › Rank #3
UI Frameworks › Rank #26

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The USWDS design system is 1.5 times more popular than Codex.
Total websites

Market share

Design Systems

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

USWDS is more popular in the United States, Canada, and India, while Codex is more popular in Germany, the United Kingdom, and France.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Canada
India
France
Russia
Japan
Netherlands
Finland

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

USWDS is more popular among sites focused on government and military, business, and education and reference, while Codex is more commonly used on blogs and wiki, games, and entertainment sites.
Government/Military
Blogs/Wiki
Business
Education/Reference
Health
Marketing/Merchandising
Internet Services
Finance/Banking
Games
Online Shopping

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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Rank
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#110
#183
#1,014
#1,093
#1,186
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