CakePHP vs CodeIgniter
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
CakePHP · CodeIgniter · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
8
11
Open Page Rank 8+
90
187
Open Page Rank 7+
242
731
Open Page Rank 6+
415
1,360
Open Page Rank 5+
609
2,426
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
CakePHP · CodeIgniter · share of sites in each country using one or the other
India
1,828
17,846
Indonesia
622
13,132
United States
1,935
9,656
Brazil
3,577
5,910
United Kingdom
852
5,381
Japan
2,210
3,181
Türkiye
417
4,412
Germany
788
3,335
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | CakePHP | CodeIgniter |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.8 s | 1.8 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 800 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Aug 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.