Site search: If you can not measure it, you can not improve it

Web analytics is the measurement, collection, analysis anding and improve the effectiveness of a website. [wikipedia]

The most popular web analytics tool is: Google Analytics. Here you are its most popular metrics:

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When we focus on a web catalog or web shop, the site search feature acquires a maximum relevance. Let’s take a deeper watch on this important functionality.

Site search is a functionality provided by a website in the form of search box through website visitors search the website for products.

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Search analytics is the use of search data to investigate particular interactions among Web searchers, the search engine, or the content during searching episodes. The resulting analysis and improve their performance on search engines. [wikipedia]

The specific site search analysis feature available in Google Analytics to perform search analytics, covers perfectly our needs when what we want to analyze are text searches. However, when our search engine is an auto parts search engine, our analysis needs became much more complex.

Market Expert is a demand how can complement site search analysis of Google Analytics:

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As we see, when we need to analyze auto part searches, Market Expert provides us insights at product level that allows us to analyze and top product solutions not found) as well as the results of our search engine (missing cross-list).

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In this case we can say clearly that union makes strength: Google Analytics + Market Expert.

Market Expert: Demand-driven analysis platform for automotive aftermarket parts.

By  Joan Cabós
CEO & founder

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