Algolia vs Elasticsearch

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

Top sites by authority

Algolia · 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 · Elasticsearch · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 18,834

9,065

United Kingdom 7,117

2,323

France 7,195

2,242

India 7,312

1,919

Germany 5,918

2,721

Canada 6,095

2,517

Netherlands 4,651

2,118

Spain 4,667

1,726

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, 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.

Sites that switched

Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.

All Algolia sites · All Elasticsearch sites