Algolia Realtime Search vs Elasticsearch
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Algolia Realtime Search · Elasticsearch · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
0
10
Open Page Rank 8+
0
111
Open Page Rank 7+
0
352
Open Page Rank 6+
0
580
Open Page Rank 5+
0
926
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Algolia Realtime Search · Elasticsearch · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
519
9,065
Germany
301
2,721
Canada
354
2,517
United Kingdom
336
2,323
France
324
2,242
Netherlands
248
2,118
India
326
1,919
Spain
289
1,726
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Algolia Realtime Search | Elasticsearch |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2 s | 1.7 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0.05 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 700 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Jun 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.