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 9,446

78,208

India 17,612

29,980

United Kingdom 5,362

31,164

Indonesia 13,224

17,884

Canada 3,140

27,669

Germany 3,213

23,967

France 3,145

23,963

Brazil 5,775

18,995

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 Ruby on Rails sites