Introduction¶

Use the Statistics module to view a list of the terms and phrases your visitors have searched for.

How to use Site Search¶

This section gives instructions on how to use the Site Search feature in the Statistics module.

1. Navigate to the Dashboard for your domain.

2. Locate the Statistics section and click to open it, or click Statistics (the broken pie chart icon) on the page menu bar:

   

3. Click the date on the top right side of the page to change to a specific date span.

   

4. This view shows:

   • A graph of the total number of visits in the last 30 days

   • Most visited pages

   • Traffic Sources

   • Most Frequent.

For more information and setup instructions for the Statistics module, see:

Statistics setup

Site Search¶

1. From the menu on the left, select Content.

   

2. The menu expands. Select Site Search.

   

3. The Site Search page opens.

Site Search categories¶

The landing page helps users to view the data collected and visualize the site search data in a bar chart.

The bar chart shows the following:

1. Search Term - View a list of all terms that visitors searched for.

2. Searches - View the number of times (occurrences) each term was searched for.

3. Average number of results per pages viewed - View the average amount of search result pages that visitors browse for each term.

4. Percentage of visitors staying after a search - For each term, view the percentage of visitors who stay on the website after they perform a search.

In addition, users can also:

• View the average amount of search result pages that visitors browse for each term.
• Sort the columns to show smallest or largest data first.
• Download/export Site Search data.
• Apply a date range filter to search within.
• Search for a specific Site Search term.

Additional resources¶

For instructions on how to set up Site Search, see the user guide article:

. https://docs.acquia.com/acquia-optimize/admin/setup/statistics-setup/site-search.