Elasticsearch vs Swiftype
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Elasticsearch · Swiftype · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
10
4
Open Page Rank 8+
111
30
Open Page Rank 7+
352
71
Open Page Rank 6+
580
95
Open Page Rank 5+
926
129
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Elasticsearch · Swiftype · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
9,065
650
Germany
2,721
275
Canada
2,517
338
United Kingdom
2,323
342
France
2,242
256
Netherlands
2,118
222
India
1,919
353
Spain
1,726
223
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Elasticsearch | Swiftype |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.7 s | 2 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0.05 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 900 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.