SearchStax Studio – Site Search
This module integrates your Drupal site with SearchStax Site Search, a subscription-based service that leverages Solr for enhanced search functionality. It automatically indexes your content and powers your existing search pages with advanced features like analytics, auto-suggest, spell check, and customizable relevance controls. This allows marketing and business users to manage and optimize their site's search experience without needing IT intervention.
The SearchStax Drupal Module lets users set up and configure the SearchStax Site Search product (subscription required) on Drupal in less than 60 minutes.
SearchStax Site Search harnesses the power of the Solr search engine for Drupal and provides an easy-to-use interface for marketing and business users to configure and manage the search experience. Marketing and business users gain access to the search analytics needed to understand what is happening with search on their website, and can configure and manage search on their own without any IT bottlenecks.
Once the SearchStax Drupal Module is installed and configured, Site Search automatically indexes any existing, new or updated content in the Drupal environment. Site Search also becomes the backend behind any existing or new standard Drupal search page. The module adds site search functionality while requiring virtually no changes to the Drupal site.
▶ Watch an introduction to SearchStax Site Search for Drupal
Requirements
- Subscription to SearchStax Site Search product
- Drupal 10+
- Search API – provides a comprehensive way of adding advanced search functionality to Drupal sites
- Search API Solr – needed to use an Apache Solr server (as provided by SearchStax Site Search) together with Search API
Installation
The SearchStax module is installed like any other Drupal module by adding the module’s code to your Drupal installation. Complete installation steps are provided on the SearchStax Drupal Module Developer Documentation page on the SearchStax website or in the module download release notes.
Additional information on SearchStax Site Search can be found at:
SearchStax Site Search Features
Analytics- Dashboard
- Searches
- Content Items
- Power Search
- Synonyms
- Auto-suggest
- Spell Check
- Stopwords
- Multiple Relevance Models
- Field Ranking or Boosting
- Rules
- Promotions
Search Page
You will continue to use your current Drupal search page, but the default search results will be powered by the SearchStax API. Any changes you make to search relevance using Site Search will be updated in your search results.
Site Search Analytics
Site Search has out-of-the-box search analytics that includes a Dashboard for summary search statistics such as number of total searches, total clicks, click-through rate and average click position.
Analytics includes reports on Searches (Most Popular, No Result Searches and Searches with No Click) and Items (Most Clicked Content and Least Clicked Content). There is also a Power Search feature that allows users to create their own customized views of the Searches and Items.
SearchStax Site Search Dashboard
Basic Relevance
With Basic Relevance, users can configure their site search to:
- Add Synonyms, Spell Check and Stopwords
- Set up and configure Auto-suggest
SearchStax Site Search Basic Relevance - Spell Check
Relevance Modeling
For advanced Relevance Modeling, users can set up different Relevance Models to create and test search variations.
Within each model, users can:
- Adjust Field Ranking or Boosting using a simple slider mechanism using fields or functions
- Set up Rules to improve the search experience
- Create Promotions to curate the search experience by promoting specific content to the top of the search results
