Elasticsearch vs Layers
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Elasticsearch · Layers · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
10
1
Open Page Rank 8+
111
2
Open Page Rank 7+
352
6
Open Page Rank 6+
580
9
Open Page Rank 5+
926
13
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Elasticsearch · Layers · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
9,065
40
Germany
2,721
20
Canada
2,517
19
United Kingdom
2,323
21
France
2,242
20
Netherlands
2,118
16
India
1,919
24
Spain
1,726
13
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Elasticsearch | Layers |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.7 s | 1.6 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0.05 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 600 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.