Algolia Realtime Search vs Elasticsearch

Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.

Detections for Algolia Realtime Search end in Feb 2020. The fingerprint catalog behind our crawls no longer carries that technology as its own entry, usually because it was retired or split into more specific ones, so its figure is the last recorded and is not directly comparable with a currently tracked technology.

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 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 469

7,706

Germany 256

2,404

Canada 300

2,163

United Kingdom 303

2,074

France 265

1,871

Netherlands 212

1,858

India 291

1,727

Spain 235

1,515

Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.

Real user performance

Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Aug 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.

All Algolia Realtime Search sites · All Elasticsearch sites