# Does disabling norms for non-text fields make any impact?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-disabling-norms-for-non-text-fields-make-any-impact/148620>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 14, 2018, 12:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-disabling-norms-for-non-text-fields-make-any-impact/148620 "2018-09-14T12:36:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![shobhana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@shobhana](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shobhana)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2018, 12:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-disabling-norms-for-non-text-fields-make-any-impact/148620/1 "2018-09-14T12:36:33Z")

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I understand that norms are necessary for scoring and if I am not interested in scoring, I can disable it for text fields. If I have an index with approx 15 fields and most of them are mapped as keyword/double/integer/boolean, will there be any performance improvement if I disable norms for these fields? I use terms query to search these documents

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2018, 12:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-disabling-norms-for-non-text-fields-make-any-impact/148620/2 "2018-10-12T12:36:46Z")

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