CodeIgniter vs Express
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
CodeIgniter · Express · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
14
63
Open Page Rank 8+
189
794
Open Page Rank 7+
731
2,329
Open Page Rank 6+
1,372
3,763
Open Page Rank 5+
2,456
5,743
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
CodeIgniter · Express · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
11,105
41,639
India
20,653
25,247
Indonesia
15,938
11,920
United Kingdom
6,135
18,417
Brazil
6,527
16,922
Germany
3,826
17,171
France
4,024
15,941
Canada
3,664
15,658
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | CodeIgniter | Express |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.9 s | 2.3 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 100 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 800 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 Express
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| karthipuram.com | Mar 2026 |