🆚 Elgg vs. Ning
- 📈 Ning is five times more popular than Elgg.
- 🌎 Ning is more popular in the United States, Vietnam, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Elgg is more popular in Spain, Germany, and Canada.
Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Content management system
Website builder
About
Elgg is an open-source social networking engine for building social applications with 
PHP and MySQL.
Ning is a social website builder that allows you to build anything ranging from simple websites to advanced online communities.
Headquarters
Henderson, Nevada, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️ Open source
Free version ❌Free 14-day trial
$150+/year
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Ning website builder is 5 times more popular than Elgg.
Total websites
Market share
CMS
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Ning is more popular in the United States, Vietnam, and the United Kingdom, while Elgg is more popular in Spain, Germany, and Canada.
United States
Vietnam
United Kingdom
Russia
Italy
France
Netherlands
Spain
India
Germany
Awards
- ⬆️ 45th most popular in the United States in the Website Builders category.
- ⬆️ 65th most popular in the United States in the CMS category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Ning is more popular among sites focused on blogs and wiki, entertainment, and religion and ideology, while Elgg is more commonly used on education and reference sites.
Education/Reference
Blogs/Wiki
Entertainment
Religion/Ideology
Internet Services
Social Networking
Professional Networking
Art/Culture/Heritage
Business
Online Shopping
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,814,833 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.