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+
12
43
Open Page Rank 8+
174
497
Open Page Rank 7+
715
1,396
Open Page Rank 6+
1,338
2,220
Open Page Rank 5+
2,374
3,208
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
17,612
6,398
United States
9,446
10,293
Indonesia
13,224
2,999
Germany
3,213
8,127
United Kingdom
5,362
5,403
Brazil
5,775
4,223
Spain
3,140
4,702
France
3,145
4,654
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, 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.
CodeIgniter to Django
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| aam-web.com | Nov 2025 |
Django to CodeIgniter
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| silverstorm.in | Jan 2026 |