🆚 Laravel vs. Yii Framework

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Laravel is five times more popular than Yii Framework.
🌎 Laravel is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands.
🌍 Yii Framework is more popular in Norway, Uruguay, and Nicaragua.

Type

Backend framework

About

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.

Yii is an open-source, object-oriented, component-based MVC PHP web application framework.

It includes an implementation of the Active Record design pattern for database interaction, RESTful API support, multi-tier caching, role-based access control, and Gii, a code generation tool.

Headquarters

New York, United States

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Website

laravel.com #2,213

yiiframework.com #472,542

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Laravel backend framework is 5 times more popular than Yii Framework.

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, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands, while Yii Framework is more popular in Norway, Uruguay, and Nicaragua.

United States

United Kingdom

Netherlands

Russia

Germany

India

Indonesia

Japan

France

Brazil

Awards

🥇 Most popular in Indonesia in the Backend Frameworks category.
🥇 Most popular in Russia in the Backend Frameworks category.
🥇 Most popular in Poland in the Backend Frameworks category.
🥇 Most popular in Ukraine in the Backend Frameworks category.
🥇 Most popular in Bangladesh in the Backend Frameworks category.

🥈 Second most popular in Ukraine in the Backend Frameworks category.
🥈 Second most popular in Kazakhstan in the Backend Frameworks category.
🥉 Third most popular in Russia in the Backend Frameworks category.
🥉 Third most popular in Belgium in the Backend Frameworks category.
🥉 Third most popular in Uzbekistan in the Backend Frameworks category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Laravel is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and Internet services, while Yii Framework is more commonly used on non-profit, advocacy and NGO sites.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Internet Services

Online Shopping

Education/Reference

Health

Travel

Entertainment

General News

Real Estate