🆚 Emerald vs. Material Design Lite
- 📈 Material Design Lite is much more popular than Emerald.
- 🌍 Material Design Lite is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ Emerald is particularly popular in the Czech Republic.
Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Material Design LiteType
User interface framework
User interface framework
About
Emerald is an opinionated responsive grid system written in LESS.
Material Design Lite (MDL) is a legacy user interface framework that implements 
Material Design components using plain 
CSS, 
JavaScript, and 
HTML without external dependencies.
It provides a set of ready-made UI components, such as buttons, layouts, cards, menus, sliders, and dialogs, a responsive grid system, and automatic component upgrading via JavaScript.
Headquarters
Berlin, Germany
Mountain View, California, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️ Open source
Free ✔️ Open source
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Material Design Lite UI framework is 542 times more popular than Emerald.
Total websites
Market share
UI Frameworks
Legacy
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Material Design Lite is more popular than Emerald in all countries.
United States
Germany
Spain
France
Japan
India
Russia
Vietnam
Italy
United Kingdom
Awards
- 🔥 11st most popular in Vietnam in the UI Frameworks category.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in Spain in the UI Frameworks category.
- 🔥 15th most popular in Japan in the UI Frameworks category.
- 🔥 17th most popular in India in the UI Frameworks category.
- 🔥 19th most popular in Germany in the UI Frameworks category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Material Design Lite is more popular than Emerald in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Travel
Internet Services
Real Estate
Health
Entertainment
Software/Hardware
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,814,833 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.