How to create a metric around "searches per user"

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  Lindsay Zubrickas

  December 14, 2022 20:36

  Hi, @david! Thanks for reaching out! 😊

  Great question! There are likely a few different metrics you could take a look at but, ultimately, the best option for you will be based on your website. For example, you could consider building a metric based off of:

  • A Click event on the button a user would have to click when searching your website
  • A Change event on the search textbox itself (Note: This could include users that entered text in your search bar but did not actually submit their search)
  • A Visited URL event if there is something in the URL that indicates the user is viewing their search results (for example, a /search URL path or something similar)

  If none of those seem like good options for the specific search bar you’re interested in tracking, you may want to consider instrumenting a custom event using our FS.event API that would fire each time a user searches your website. Once you’ve identified the metric you’d like to use to track the number of searches, the next step would be to build a dashboard card. I’ve included two examples below to give you a few ideas and help point you in the right direction. 

   

  Average Number of Searches per User

  Dashboard Card Type: Single Metric

  

  Total Searches per User

  Dashboard Cart Type: Dimensionality Card

  

   

  I hope this helps! Please don’t hesitate to reach out should you have any other questions! 😄

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