Web frameworks · comparison
CodeIgniter vs Play
CodeIgniter is used on 26,558 sites, 11 times as many as Play (2,359 sites).
In Web frameworks, CodeIgniter ranks #5 and Play #12 by number of sites.
From Jul 2026 to Oct 2026, CodeIgniter grew 0.1% and Play held steady.
No site in our index runs both CodeIgniter and Play.
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CodeIgniter
codeigniter.com
- Sites
- 26,558
- Share of tracked sites
- 0.17%
- Rank in Web frameworks
- #5
- Change since Jul 2026
- ▲ +0.14%
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Play
www.playframework.com
- Sites
- 2,359
- Share of tracked sites
- 0.01%
- Rank in Web frameworks
- #12
- Change since Jul 2026
- ▲ +0.04%
Sites using both
0
sites run CodeIgniter and Play
of CodeIgniter sites0%
of Play sites0%
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Site counts and ranks come from our crawl of the web; the change compares the monthly adoption snapshots both technologies have.