CodeIgniter vs Ionic
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
CodeIgniter · Ionic · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
11
12
Open Page Rank 8+
187
84
Open Page Rank 7+
731
245
Open Page Rank 6+
1,360
444
Open Page Rank 5+
2,426
695
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
CodeIgniter · Ionic · share of sites in each country using one or the other
Brazil
5,910
31,931
United States
9,656
13,010
India
17,846
3,961
Indonesia
13,132
2,228
Philippines
2,549
5,768
United Kingdom
5,381
2,224
Canada
3,133
2,370
Germany
3,335
1,765
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | CodeIgniter | Ionic |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.8 s | 6.5 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 500 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0.45 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 700 ms |
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.
CodeIgniter to Ionic
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| respabeds.ie | Mar 2026 |
| thesixfigurecoach.com | Jan 2026 |