🆚 CodeIgniter vs. Laravel

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

Backend framework
Backend framework

About

CodeIgniter is an open-source PHP full-stack web framework with small footprint, high performance, and minimal configuration setup.

It includes MVC support, clean URL routing, CSRF and XSS protection, helper libraries for database access, email, sessions, file uploading, and extensive documentation.

Laravel is an open-source PHP backend framework that provides all features needed to build modern web applications such as routing, input validation, caching, queues, and file storage.

It includes an expressive templating engine, a database ORM with migrations and seeding, built-in user authentication and authorization, a command-line interface, and a unified API for various cache backends.

Headquarters

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
New York, United States

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source

Categories

Backend Frameworks › Rank #8
Backend Frameworks › Rank #3

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Laravel backend framework is 4 times more popular than CodeIgniter.
Total websites

Market share

Backend Frameworks

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Laravel is more popular in the United States, India, and Indonesia, while CodeIgniter is more popular in Macao and Djibouti.
United States
India
Indonesia
United Kingdom
Netherlands
Germany
Japan
Brazil
Turkey
Russia

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Laravel is more popular than CodeIgniter in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Internet Services
Education/Reference
Health
Travel
General News
Entertainment
Blogs/Wiki

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
toomics.com
#2,897
javmost.com
#4,058
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Name
Rank
erome.com
#109
triunfob*t.com
#854
superp**n.com
#855
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See also

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