CodeIgniter vs Yii
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
CodeIgniter · Yii · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
12
14
Open Page Rank 8+
174
154
Open Page Rank 7+
715
508
Open Page Rank 6+
1,338
1,031
Open Page Rank 5+
2,374
1,881
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
CodeIgniter · Yii · share of sites in each country using one or the other
India
17,612
3,264
United States
9,446
8,256
Indonesia
13,224
1,711
United Kingdom
5,362
5,185
Brazil
5,775
1,697
Germany
3,213
3,848
Netherlands
2,733
3,644
Canada
3,140
2,806
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | CodeIgniter | Yii |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.8 s | 1.7 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 800 ms |
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.
CodeIgniter to Yii
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| spiritus-koncept.hr | May 2026 |