Elasticsearch vs Meilisearch
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Elasticsearch · Meilisearch · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
9
1
Open Page Rank 8+
112
5
Open Page Rank 7+
355
12
Open Page Rank 6+
584
18
Open Page Rank 5+
913
29
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Elasticsearch · Meilisearch · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
7,706
81
Germany
2,404
85
Canada
2,163
45
United Kingdom
2,074
66
France
1,871
88
Netherlands
1,858
46
India
1,727
47
Spain
1,515
144
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Elasticsearch | Meilisearch |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.7 s | 2.2 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0.05 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 1100 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.