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Copyright 2011 Sematext Int'l. All rights reserved. 1 Search Analytics What? Why? How? Otis Gospodnetić Sematext International @otisg @sematext sematext.com http://sematext.com/search-analytics/ind ex.html

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This presentation describes what Search Analytics is, why it is valuable, and how it can be used to improve the search experience.

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Search Analytics

What? Why? How?

Otis Gospodnetić – Sematext International@otisg ◦ @sematext ◦ sematext.com

http://sematext.com/search-analytics/index.html

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About Otis Gospodnetić

• Member: Apache Lucene, Solr, Nutch, Mahout

• Author: Lucene in Action 1 & 2

• Entrepreneur: Sematext, Simpy

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About Sematext

Products & Services

Consulting, Development, Tech Support:

Search (Lucene, Solr, Elastic Search...) Big Data (Hadoop, HBase, Voldemort...) Web Crawling (Nutch, Droids) Machine Learning (Mahout)

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Agenda

Intro: Otis & Sematext - DONE What Why Specific Reports & their value

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What is Search Analytics?

Input: queries and clicks Subsequent: actions / xactions / conversions Output: reports – over time

The means, not the goal Ongoing, not one-off

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Search Analytics and SEO

Not the same SA can help with SEO

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Search vs. Web Analytics

User intent and information needs vs. inferring Hand in hand Ideally you can relate data from both or even

unify it

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Why Search Analytics?

Measure and monitor everything. Introspection. Supports (re)design, navigation choices Helps with content acquisition & enhancement Improve search experience Mula

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Report Groups

Failures vs. non-failures Actionable vs. non-actionable

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Failures

Be aware of failures, but don't be one.

Zero hits Low query CTR High search exit rate Irrelevant results Over N refinements

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Report: Zero Hit Queries

Overall pct. (not raw count) vs. popular queries Misspellings? Synonyms? No matching content? Need (different) tagging? Bad analysis? Multilingual issue?

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Report: Zero Hit Queries (cont.)

Use Query Spellchecker (aka DYM) Using AutoComplete - $MM improvement Using DYM ReSearcher Designing No Results page

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Report: High Exit Rate Queries

Disappointed, frustrated users Major revenue loss, no second chance Marriage with Web Analytics Relevance bad? Default ordering bad? Titles of hits need adjusting? Search terms highlighting looking bad? Bad thumbnails? Need thumbnails?

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Report: Irrelevant Result Queries

Manual: top N hits of top N queries Judge relevance of each hit and assign score Per-query score: sum scores of top N hits Cumulative top N query score: sum per-query

scores

Automated: Mean Reciprocal Rank (MRR)

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Report: Total Queries

Search vs. navigation/browsing Search vs. overall site usage Related report: % of visits with search Segment: new users vs. return users, etc.

Questions: do you count paging? Facet selection? Re-sorting?

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Report: Total Distinct Queries

What's distinct? Car vs. Cars # Total Queries / # Distinct Queries = Avg. # Tied to performance and query cache utilization Extension: Total distinct words in queries

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Report: Words Per Query

Informative, slowly changing, not terribly actionable

Can affect search box size Use AutoComplete if queries are long

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Report: Top Queries

User intent and information needs Ensure good results Calculate MRR for top N queries Calculate MRR for each top N query Compare to global MRR

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Report: Top Queries (cont.)

New top queries – new trend? New demand? Best Bets (aka Query Elevation in Solr) Expose before search is needed Seasonality – hour of day, day of the week, etc.

Adjust content presentation and availability (e.g. week vs. weekend, business vs. personal)

Anticipate demand in the next cycle

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Clickstream Analysis

Query analysis is not a complete story: Queries Clicks Actions / Transactions / Conversions

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Query and Hit Valuation

Query: by popularity (count) Query: by CTR Query: by subsequent (trans)action count/pct.

Hit: by click count Hit: by subsequent (trans)action count/pct.

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Query and Hit Valuation (cont.)

Maximize:pop(query) + ctr(query) + action(query)clicks(hit) + action(hit)

Failures:high pop(q), yet low ctr(q)

high pop(q), high ctr(q), yet low action(q)

Integration with backend required

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Report: Low CTR Queries

Percentage (not raw count) vs. popular queries Relevance bad? Default ordering bad? Titles of hits need adjusting? Search terms highlighting looking bad? Bad thumbnails? Need thumbnails?

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Report: Queries with Most Clicks

i.e. Queries with Highest CTR Informative? Yes Actionable? Somewhat: expose relevant

content outside of search

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Search Session

Search activity aimed at satisfying a specific information need in a some limited amount of time.

i.e. it's very fuzzy

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Interesting Search Sessions

More than N queries in M minutes Sessions that end in a failure Sessions for specific type of info (e.g. person

name, product name, event)

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Segmentation

Searches that resulted in conversion vs. not Search metrics for:

New vs. returning visitors English vs. French vs. Spanish vs. … Chrome vs. IE ...

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More SA Reports/Questions

% of queries from DYM vs. AC vs. typed Most common queries per clicked hit Which hits are generally popular? Which hits are trending up? Are there docs that are never ever clicked on? Average number of queries per session Breakdown of queries by number of hits

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More SA Reports/Questions

Breakdown of queries by latency Frequently used facets or sort criteria Avg number of clicks per query Time spent on site before/after searching Search initiation pages How deep into SERPs are people drilling? Are too many clicks on pages other than 1st? ...

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Data Collection

Details in Search Analytics with Flume and HBase on http://blog.sematext.com/2010/10/16/search-analytics-hadoop-world-flume-hbase/

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Sematext's Search Analytics

Built with Flume, HBase, Hadoop, etc. Resulted in 2 open-source projects:

https://github.com/sematext/HBaseWD

https://github.com/sematext/HBaseHUT See

http://sematext.com/open-source/index.html

Resulted in patches for Flume and HBase

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