Learn about the Analytics Overview page in the Algolia extension for Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source.
Algolia offers search analytics to help you understand how your search meets the expectations of your users.
The Algolia extension for Magento Open Source and Adobe Commerce comes with its own Analytics dashboard that shows some of this data.
To get started, go to Stores > Algolia Search > Analytics Overview.
You can filter analytics data by store view, index type, and date range.
The index types are limited to products, categories, and pages.By default, Algolia retains the last 90 days of your analytics history.
You can extend your analytics retention up to 365 days.
Extended analytics retention is available as an add-on to your pricing plan.
The Analytics page provides the following metrics out of the box:
Metric
Description
Total searches
How many searches were performed. As-you-type searches are aggregated. For example, if a user searches for “iPad”, the queries i, iP, iPa, and iPad count as one search
Users
How many unique users performed a search
No results rate
Percentage of searches that returned 0 results. The lower, the better
Daily searches
A bar chart displaying the number of searches per day in the selected date range. You can reveal more daily statistics by hovering over each bar
Popular searches
Which searches are performed most often
Popular results
Results that are displayed most often in the results after a search
No results searches
Search queries that returned 0 results. Consider adding synonyms to your index, or improve keywords in your data set to reduce the number of no results searches.
Algolia tracks a search, when the contains the clickAnalytics=true parameter.
For more information, see
Click and conversion analytics.With Click Analytics enabled, you can find these additional metrics in the Analytics dashboard:
Metric
Description
Conversion rate
Percentage of tracked searches that lead to a successful conversion. See Click and conversion analytics for more information.
Conversion rate (Add to Cart)
Percentage of tracked searches that lead to a customer adding an item to their cart.
Conversion rate (Place Order)
Percentage of tracked searches that lead to a customer completing a purchase.
Click-through rate (CTR)
Percentage of users that click at least one result in a tracked search.
Click position
The average position of the clicks in the search results. For example, a click position of 1 indicates that every user clicked on the first result when searching.
To optimize your analytics, how you choose to collect cookies on your website is important.
For information about how the Algolia extension determines consent,
see Cookie law compliance.
