CodeIgniter vs Express

Express is used by more websites in our catalog: 1,379 use CodeIgniter and 4,256 use Express.

Express sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (CodeIgniter: 28, Express: 39).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, CodeIgniter went from 0.18% to 0.16% of all tracked sites, while Express went from 0.59% to 0.48%. CodeIgniter is gaining ground faster in our index.

0 websites in our catalog use both CodeIgniter and Express.

Adoption is counted from Site Stats Database's own crawl; Domain Rating comes from Ahrefs and traffic from DataForSEO. Figures reflect the sites we track and refresh at least monthly.