WordPress plugin · Free
Search Analytics for WP records what visitors search for on your WordPress site and how many results each search found. You see which terms are popular and which come up empty, and everything stays in your own database.
Theme search boxes, the WooCommerce product search and wpForo. An AJAX live search can be recorded too, with one line of code.
One filter shows only the searches that found nothing. Sort by number of searches to put the most common dead ends first.
Number of searches, average results and the last search date, with time filters from the last 24 hours to all time.
A daily chart compared with the previous period, and the days and hours when people search most.
Bots, junk searches and your own test searches are left out. You can also skip listed IP addresses, very short terms and blocked words.
Export any view to CSV, and show popular or latest searches on your site with two blocks or their shortcodes.
Searches with no results are topics people expect to find on your site. Sorted by number of searches, they become a to-do list with the most requested topics on top.
If "contact" or "shipping" shows up week after week, the page exists but the link is probably too hard to spot.
Visitors type "couch" when your store says "sofa". Their search terms are the words to use in your titles and menus.
Yes. WooCommerce's product search opens the normal search results page, so each product search is recorded with the number of products it found.
Only searches do any work, and each one is saved with a few small database queries. Other pages only check whether they are a search.
Yes. Ignore your role, even after you log out, and list IP addresses to ignore, like your office's.
No. Your search history stays. To remove it, tick the delete option in the settings, then delete the plugin.
Works well with
Search SteerFound searches with no results? Search Steer gives a post keywords, so those searches find it.
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A public feature request board. Visitors vote on ideas, you move them through statuses like Planned and Shipped, and followers get an email when a status changes.
Hide posts from your site search, or steer it post by post: keywords bring a post into the results, stop keywords keep it out.