915851 - Investigate why /search doesn't like UA

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Marketplace Graveyard :: Consumer Pages, defect)

Description

[Matt Basta [:basta]]

It might just be a fluke of the data, but /search is reporting ~90% less traffic in UA than in GA (everything else appears pretty normal).

Gareth is going to collect more information, but we'll need to do more investigation to find out what's going on.

Comment 1

[Matt Basta [:basta]]

It turns out that this was a config issue in UA. GA is configured to track site search as purely a URL-based tracking mechanism (similar to any other page). UA was set up to track search per query.

I've changed the config slightly to hopefully fix this issue:
- UA now recognized sort order ("sort="), so different sort orders don't count as different searches.
- UA will now strip "q" and "sort" from the URL when searching. This means that all searches will now appear as hitting the url "/search" rather than "/search?q=..." for each term.