Algolia vs FAST ESP
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Algolia · FAST ESP · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
34
0
Open Page Rank 8+
358
1
Open Page Rank 7+
1,159
2
Open Page Rank 6+
1,918
3
Open Page Rank 5+
2,838
3
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Algolia · FAST ESP · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
16,625
9
India
6,483
3
United Kingdom
6,206
9
France
5,869
11
Canada
5,259
6
Germany
5,133
30
Australia
4,071
5
Netherlands
4,047
6
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Algolia | FAST ESP |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.3 s | 1.4 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 100 ms |
| CLS | 0.05 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 500 ms |
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.