---
title: "CodeIgniter is the fastest PHP framework"
url: https://thecancerus.com/codeigniter-is-the-fastest-php-framework/
date: 2008-07-02
modified: 2008-07-02
author: "ican"
description: "Ekerete Akpan, from AVNet Labs, released the results of his small experiment to measure the performance of four PHP frameworks.He used requests/sec as a performance yardstick, what it tells is..."
categories:
  - "php"
tags:
  - "cakephp"
  - "codeigniter"
  - "performance"
  - "zend framework"
word_count: 90
---

# CodeIgniter is the fastest PHP framework

Ekerete Akpan, from AVNet Labs, [released the results](http://www.avnetlabs.com/php/php-framework-comparison-benchmarks) of his small experiment to measure the performance of four PHP frameworks.He used requests/sec as a performance yardstick, what it tells is that number of request your webserver can handle, if you use one of these frameworks.[![php-framework-comparison-benchmarks](http://thecancerus.com/wp-content/php-framework-comparison-benchmarks.png)](http://www.avnetlabs.com/php/php-framework-comparison-benchmarks)And the result of all his test says that between Zend Framework,CakePHP and CodeIgniter, CodeIgniter is the fastest one.This test validates my choice for going with CI as framework, instead of Zend.For detailed analysis checkout the [original post](http://www.avnetlabs.com/php/php-framework-comparison-benchmarks).Update: Even [Rasmus Lerdorf prefers CI](http://szeged2008.drupalcon.org/program/sessions/rasmus-lerdorf-keynote-simple-hard) over all the frameworks avilable.