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 9,656

38,356

India 17,846

23,670

Indonesia 13,132

11,248

United Kingdom 5,381

16,760

Brazil 5,910

15,957

Germany 3,335

15,250

France 3,230

14,018

Canada 3,133

13,841

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, 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.

All CodeIgniter sites · All Express sites