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+
587
9
Open Page Rank 5+
907
12
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
7,325
39
Germany
2,334
21
Canada
2,134
18
United Kingdom
2,048
24
Netherlands
1,874
16
France
1,865
23
India
1,736
18
Spain
1,535
14
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 | 100 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0.05 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 600 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Sep 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.