Laravel vs Yii
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Laravel · Yii · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
31
14
Open Page Rank 8+
435
163
Open Page Rank 7+
1,578
530
Open Page Rank 6+
2,906
1,068
Open Page Rank 5+
5,024
1,944
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Laravel · Yii · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
26,031
8,303
India
19,591
3,326
Indonesia
20,882
1,718
United Kingdom
13,692
5,108
Germany
12,583
3,951
Brazil
13,558
1,690
Netherlands
10,532
3,591
France
11,068
2,202
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Laravel | 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, 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.
Laravel to Yii
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| goluxury.ca | Oct 2025 |
Yii to Laravel
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| adamalbin.se | Mar 2026 |
| kupohajna.com | Sep 2025 |