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+
30
13
Open Page Rank 8+
429
165
Open Page Rank 7+
1,564
536
Open Page Rank 6+
2,853
1,076
Open Page Rank 5+
4,923
1,963
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
28,716
9,306
India
21,569
3,708
Indonesia
23,137
2,006
United Kingdom
15,061
5,856
Germany
13,795
4,527
Brazil
14,747
1,849
Netherlands
11,866
4,129
France
12,857
2,629
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Laravel | Yii |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.9 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, Jun 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 |