CodeIgniter vs Ruby on Rails

Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.

Top sites by authority

CodeIgniter · Ruby on Rails · 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 · Ruby on Rails · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 9,656

77,772

India 17,846

29,983

United Kingdom 5,381

30,362

Indonesia 13,132

17,738

Canada 3,133

26,938

Germany 3,335

23,823

France 3,230

23,442

Brazil 5,910

19,111

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 Ruby on Rails sites