Google Analytics Site Search

[xmanhattan]

Hello all,

I have been using Google Analytics for sometime now but I have not analyzed all of the functions of it.
I noticed that the Google Analytics Site Search under Behavior does not provide any information.
The Elxis search function provides information from the website that can be helpful when someone wants to improve their website.

Does anyone know if this requires adding some code to the Elxis search function for this to work?

[datahell]

Elxis does not log searches.

[xmanhattan]

google analytics uses this to add the searches
q=keyword

Okay but according to google analytics will this work if I add it to the search form html?

see
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1012264?hl=en

[datahell]

Elxis search is fully compatible to the standards and already uses the q parameter.

https://www.elxis.org/search/?q=elxis

The above will perform the search using site's default search engine.

If you want you can specify the search engine, examples:

http://www.example.com/search/content.html?q=something
http://www.example.com/search/youtube.html?q=something
http://www.example.com/search/images.html?q=something
http://www.example.com/search/mikro.html?q=something
http://www.example.com/search/hotels.html?q=something

"something" must be url encoded. For example "a long string to search for":
http://www.example.com/search/hotels.html?q=a+long+string+to+search+for

[xmanhattan]

I tried that but it did not work.  Is this applicable to 2009.x?

[datahell]

I thought you were walking about Elxis 4. No, Elxis 2009 has no such capabilities.

[xmanhattan]

Okay, thanks Datahell