Ruby on Rails vs Yii

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

Top sites by authority

Ruby on Rails · Yii · 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

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

United States 83,667

9,306

United Kingdom 33,120

5,856

India 32,385

3,708

Canada 29,524

3,249

Germany 26,112

4,527

France 26,676

2,629

Japan 22,820

1,244

Australia 20,479

2,847

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, 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.

All Ruby on Rails sites · All Yii sites