What is the best alternative to CodeIgniter?

By number of websites, the most widely used alternatives to CodeIgniter are Ruby on Rails, Express, ASP.NET MVC, Laravel, Django. The right one depends on your needs; compare them on adoption, authority, and audience above.

How many alternatives to CodeIgniter are there?

Site Stats Database tracks 6 other web frameworks used by 100 or more websites, plus a long tail of rarer ones. CodeIgniter itself is used by 1,379 websites.

Which web framework has the most websites?

Ruby on Rails leads this category with 4,821 websites in our catalog.

Where does this data come from?

Adoption is counted from Site Stats Database's own crawl; authority (Ahrefs Domain Rating) and traffic come from Ahrefs and DataForSEO. Everything reflects the sites we track and refreshes at least monthly.

CodeIgniter Alternatives & Competitors

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Looking for an alternative to CodeIgniter? Site Stats Database tracks 6 other web frameworks; the top ones are below, ranked by adoption, with authority and traffic for each and the leading sites that use them. CodeIgniter itself is used by 1,379 websites. Back to CodeIgniter.

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