🆚 DocSearch vs. Lunr
- 📈 DocSearch is noticeably more popular than Lunr.
- 🌎 DocSearch is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and China.
- 🌍 Lunr is more popular in Germany, Italy, and Finland.
Statistics based on 3.6M+ analyzed websites. About this data
DocSearchType
Site search software
Site search software
About
Algolia DocSearch is a free search service designed for developer documentation websites.
It crawls documentation, pushes content to an Algolia index, and provides a search UI widget.
Lunr.js is a small full-text search 
JavaScript library for use in the browser.
Headquarters
Palo Alto, California, United States
Cape Town, South Africa
docsearch.algolia.comPricing
Free ✔️ Open source
Free ✔️ Open source
Categories
Site Search › Rank #10
Site Search › Rank #13
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #207
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #221
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The DocSearch software is 1.3 times more popular than Lunr.
Total websites
Market share
Site Search
JavaScript Libraries
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
DocSearch is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and China, while Lunr is more popular in Germany, Italy, and Finland.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
China
France
Netherlands
Canada
Japan
Russia
Switzerland
Awards
- ⭐ 4th most popular in China in the Site Search category.
- ⬆️ 117th most popular in China in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 199th most popular in the United States in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Germany in the Site Search category.
- ⬆️ 200th most popular in Germany in the JavaScript Libraries category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
DocSearch is more popular among sites focused on software and hardware, technical information, and Internet services, while Lunr is more commonly used on business, blogs and wiki, and marketing and merchandising sites.
Software/Hardware
Business
Blogs/Wiki
Technical Information
Internet Services
Technical/Business Forums
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Entertainment
Travel
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,653,460 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.