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+
14
41
Open Page Rank 8+
189
490
Open Page Rank 7+
731
1,356
Open Page Rank 6+
1,372
2,175
Open Page Rank 5+
2,456
3,181
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
20,653
6,952
United States
11,105
11,309
Indonesia
15,938
3,429
Germany
3,826
9,073
United Kingdom
6,135
5,787
Brazil
6,527
4,608
France
4,024
5,365
Spain
3,568
5,101
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | CodeIgniter | Django |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.9 s | 1.8 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 700 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Jun 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 |
| yho.vn | Jul 2025 |
Django to CodeIgniter
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| silverstorm.in | Jan 2026 |