🆚 Pure CSS vs. Semantic UI

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Pure CSS is slightly more popular than Semantic UI.
🌎 Pure CSS is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
🌎 Semantic UI is more popular in Brazil, Russia, and Turkey.

Type

User interface framework

About

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.

Semantic UI is an open-source component framework that helps create responsive layouts using human-friendly CSS class names.

It provides over 50 UI components, more than 3,000 theming variables, built-in animations, form validation, and integration with frameworks such as React, Angular, Meteor, and Ember.

Headquarters

New York, United States

Website

purecss.io

semantic-ui.com #533,926

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Pure CSS UI framework is 1.4 times more popular than Semantic UI.

Total websites

Market share

UI Frameworks

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Pure CSS is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while Semantic UI is more popular in Brazil, Russia, and Turkey.

United States

Germany

United Kingdom

Japan

France

Lithuania

Netherlands

Brazil

Russia

Canada

Awards

⭐ 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.

🔥 12nd most popular in Turkey in the UI Frameworks category.
🔥 13rd most popular in Brazil in the UI Frameworks category.
🔥 13rd most popular in Russia in the UI Frameworks category.
🔥 15th most popular in the Czech Republic in the UI Frameworks category.
🔥 16th most popular in Poland in the UI Frameworks category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Pure CSS is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and education and reference, while Semantic UI is more commonly used on online shopping, software and hardware, and travel sites.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Online Shopping

Education/Reference

Internet Services

Software/Hardware

Entertainment

Blogs/Wiki

Travel

Health