Site Search Tester: How to check if your site search performs

There’s no way around it: Your site search can make or break the shopping experience.
But it’s often an overlooked feature that gets left in the dust while you optimize and upgrade other parts of your digital setup.

But a site search needs to be able to do much more than just search.

It needs to:

• Understand the language (errors) and phrases the searcher uses.
• Anticipate what the customer is looking for.
• Refine the search, getting ultra-close to the specifics
  But how do you know exactly what your current search can do – and where it’s lacking?

Test your own site search

This checklist is made based on expert input from experienced site search experts.

It provides simple ways to test your current site search solution and assess whether it’s doing what it should: Delivering fast, relevant, and helpful results.