Athena Search vs Elasticsearch
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Athena 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
Athena Search · Elasticsearch · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
3
9,065
Germany
1
2,721
Canada
1
2,517
United Kingdom
2
2,323
France
2
2,242
Netherlands
1
2,118
India
1
1,919
Spain
1
1,726
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Athena Search | Elasticsearch |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.8 s | 1.7 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0.45 | 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.