SearchWP Metrics 1.4.2: Make Informed Decisions and Refine Your Content
An effective onsite search implementation provides unique insight into your visitors. By observing what visitors are searching for, you can make educated decisions about areas of improvement when it comes to your content. With the SearchWP Metrics extension, you can collect comprehensive data for onsite searches and receive actionable advice about refinements you can make to your content over time.
Key Features:
- Turnkey Extension for SearchWP
- Collects comprehensive data for onsite searches
- Provides actionable advice for content refinements
- Works seamlessly with SearchWP
- Automatically tracks searches and clicks
- Replaces core statistics feature
- Displays data in a Dashboard Widget
- Customize the number of popular searches and posts
- Easily customize the displayed data
- Control the date range, search queries, and engines to display
- Review seaches with zero results to improve accuracy
- View detailed metrics for each selected engine
- Explore popular searches with additional details
Metrics is a standalone WordPress plugin that should be installed and activated alongside SearchWP. Once installed, Metrics will immediately begin tracking searches and clicks, and will display data as soon as enough information has been collected. The plugin supersedes SearchWP’s core statistics feature, replacing the Statistics page and Dashboard Widget with counterparts from Metrics.
To integrate click tracking in supplemental engines, simply add two code snippets to your results template before and after your own loop of results. Metrics will then process all links generated within those sections using getpermalink or a variant thereof.
Metrics also includes its own Dashboard Widget, which provides a quick look at basic data when you log in to your site. It updates in real-time as you visit your Dashboard, and you can customize the number of popular searches and posts shown.
With Metrics, you have full control over the data being displayed. You can limit the data to specific search queries, choose which queries to ignore, and even specify the engines to display. The line chart at the top of the page shows the searches over the chosen time frame for each selected engine, while below are detailed metrics for each engine that provide specific insights for further examination.
Additionally, Metrics allows you to review a list of all search queries that yielded zero results, which can be useful for ensuring accuracy over time. The plugin also highlights the most popular searches on your site, and you can expand each one to view additional details, including the entries that were clicked as a result of each search query.
