CodeIgniter vs Django
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
CodeIgniter · Django · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
11
41
Open Page Rank 8+
187
501
Open Page Rank 7+
731
1,402
Open Page Rank 6+
1,360
2,224
Open Page Rank 5+
2,426
3,215
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
CodeIgniter · Django · share of sites in each country using one or the other
India
17,846
6,463
United States
9,656
10,176
Indonesia
13,132
2,979
Germany
3,335
8,092
United Kingdom
5,381
5,267
Brazil
5,910
4,271
France
3,230
4,514
Spain
3,057
4,433
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | CodeIgniter | Django |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.8 s | 1.7 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 700 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.
Sites that switched
Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.
CodeIgniter to Django
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| aam-web.com | Nov 2025 |
Django to CodeIgniter
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| silverstorm.in | Jan 2026 |