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 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 9,446

38,574

India 17,612

23,764

Indonesia 13,224

11,392

United Kingdom 5,362

16,896

Brazil 5,775

15,921

Germany 3,213

15,170

Canada 3,140

14,018

France 3,145

13,689

Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.

Real user performance

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.

All CodeIgniter sites · All Express sites