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  • Step 1: Setup a correct pageview string
  • Step 2: Setup Google Analytics to track search
  • Step 3: Check the reports
  1. Google Analytics Integration (GA4)

Site Search Tracking

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Last updated 3 years ago

Site search tracking is a google analytics feature, where you can track the search requests on your site separately from pageviews.

To fully understand how site search tracking works, please read .

Step 1: Setup a correct pageview string

On the Analytics Integration plugin subm-menu page, change the Google Analytics Pageview string option to this format:

?ajax_search={asp_term}

.. like so:

The value between the question mark "?" and the "=" is going to be the query variable, so in this case the "ajax_search" string.

You can replace the "ajax_search" variable name with anything you want, just make sure to remember it.

Step 2: Setup Google Analytics to track search

Log-in to your Google Analytics account, select the correct account, property and view.

On the Admin section, click on the View Settings Option:

Scroll down to the Site search Tracking option, and turn it on, and to the Query parameter option enter the "ajax_search" or the query variable you have choosen before:

Save the options, and it's done!

Step 3: Check the reports

After a couple of hours the new search phrases should start to appear in the Site Search report.

this official article from google