🆚 Lunr vs. Pagefind
- 📈 Lunr is noticeably more popular than Pagefind.
- 🌍 Lunr is more popular in Germany, the United Kingdom, and Finland.
- 🌎 Pagefind is more popular in the United States, France, and the Netherlands.
Statistics based on 4M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Site search software
Site search software
About
Lunr.js is a small full-text search JavaScript library for use in the browser.
Pagefind is a fully static JavaScript search library that aims to perform well on large sites while using as little bandwidth as possible.
Headquarters
Cape Town, South Africa
Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand
Pricing
Free ✔️ Open source
Free ✔️ Open source
Categories
Site Search › Rank #12
Site Search › Rank #19
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #220
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #234
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Lunr site search software is 1.4 times more popular than Pagefind.
Total websites
Market share
Site Search
JavaScript Libraries
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Lunr is more popular in Germany, the United Kingdom, and Finland, while Pagefind is more popular in the United States, France, and the Netherlands.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
France
Netherlands
Japan
Australia
Canada
China
Spain
Awards
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Germany in the Site Search category.
- ⬆️ 194th most popular in Germany in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in Germany in the Site Search category.
- 🔥 17th most popular in the United States in the Site Search category.
- ⬆️ 221st most popular in the United States in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 221st most popular in Germany in the JavaScript Libraries category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Lunr is more popular among sites focused on blogs and wiki, software and hardware, and marketing and merchandising, while Pagefind is more commonly used on business, Internet services, and non-profit, advocacy and NGO sites.
Business
Blogs/Wiki
Software/Hardware
Marketing/Merchandising
Travel
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Health
Technical Information
Technical/Business Forums
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
See also
🗃️ 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 4,001,723 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.

