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
12
Open Page Rank 8+
87
179
Open Page Rank 7+
238
715
Open Page Rank 6+
397
1,345
Open Page Rank 5+
576
2,392
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
1,815
17,612
Indonesia
605
13,224
United States
1,993
9,446
Brazil
3,528
5,775
United Kingdom
855
5,362
Japan
2,189
3,199
Türkiye
406
4,354
Germany
773
3,213
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, Sep 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.
Sites that switched
Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.
CakePHP to CodeIgniter
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| thighschool.edu.bd | Sep 2026 |