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title: "Site Search "
date: "2024-10-31T08:13:17+00:00"
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Introduction
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Use the Statistics feature to view a list of the terms and phrases your visitors have searched for.

How to use Site Search
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This section provides instructions on how to use the Site Search feature of **Statistics**.

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:
    
    ![The location of the Statistics button on the domain toolbar.](https://acquia.widen.net/content/45633bd1-aac6-4d69-921e-bd6b9ed86c92/web/Mon_Opt_Dashboard-Statistics.png)
    
3.  Click the date on the top right side of the page to change to a specific date span.
    
    ![The location and popout of the date picker on the top right corner of the Statistics Summary page.](https://acquia.widen.net/content/37632a86-3c2e-4ed2-9ea7-a32c6b62b91f/web/Mon_Statistics-SummaryPage-DatePicker.png)
    
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, visit [Statistics setup](/node/60241)

Site Search
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1.  From the menu on the left, select **Content**.
    
    ![The location of the Content option on the left menu bar of the Statistics page.](https://acquia.widen.net/content/5d09c0a3-e9d2-467c-b6c4-3a82032eb2df/web/Mon_Statistics-LeftMenu-Content.png)
    
2.  The menu expands. Select **Site Search**.
    
    ![The location of the Site Search option in the left menu under Content on the Statistics page.](https://acquia.widen.net/content/4f13d80a-fb07-4b09-9367-c5b63a704652/web/Mon_Statistics-LeftMenu-SiteSearchButton.png)
    
3.  The _Site Search_ page opens.
    

Site Search categories
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The landing page displays the data collected and presents it in a bar chart.

![The Site Search landing page. The fields are described in the document text.](https://acquia.widen.net/content/20a8a4ad-b600-4a50-ae0d-088dc6309303/web/Mon_Statistics-SiteSearch-Dashboard.png)

The bar chart displays the following information:

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.