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
29
Open Page Rank 7+
352
68
Open Page Rank 6+
587
92
Open Page Rank 5+
907
122
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
7,325
552
Germany
2,334
238
Canada
2,134
302
United Kingdom
2,048
293
France
1,865
211
Netherlands
1,874
188
India
1,736
317
Spain
1,535
201
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Elasticsearch | Swiftype |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.7 s | 2.1 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0.05 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 1000 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.