927914 - First page of search results has only three items

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Design, defect)

Description

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

When searching MDN, the first page has only three results. This is frustrating, because you expect more than that, and too often the desired result isn't on the first page. Let's make the first page have the same number of results as later pages.

Comment 1

[David Walsh :davidwalsh]

There's a "View all #" link on the first page, which reveals more results, per the design spec.

Comment 2

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

Yes, there's a view all link, but that's not the point. The point is that limiting the first page to three items is too few items. We need every page to have the same number of results; the first page being artificially limited is annoying.

Comment 3

[Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]]

How did we reached the number 3? Did we conducted any research before arbitrary defining this number? In the current search how are the clicks distributed between the values?

Comment 4

[Luke Crouch [:groovecoder]]

Holly, can you give us some input here? How important is the 3-result limit on the results page? Can we just show 10 results on the first page?

Comment 5

[hhabstritt]

I don't know where the 3 results number was introduced. There could be miscommunication with our future plan for the results display when we can provide more sophisticated filters and can group our results for the user based on their chosen filters. (explained below) 

We should show the users more results than 3.

Results display to implement now:
- Right now we only have one Filter category being displayed (Topics) and therefore only need one list of results on the search results page. Let's start by displaying 10 results and see if this is a sufficient balance between showing the user enough results and the space they will take up when using our new styles. I'd like to see how this looks before considering displaying greater than 10.
- At bottom of page, add pagination and tell the user how many pages of results there are.  

Tighten up results display: (Sean, input?)
- There is a lot of wasted space next to the icon. I recommend aligning the title with the icon. Like this http://cl.ly/image/0p3b1Q030w1N  

Future plan:
- Once we have multiple types of filters (ie: Topics, Demos, Languages, Skill Level, etc) we could group these on the Search Results page and show the top results bucketed in these groups. The results would only show up this way if the user selected filters from multiple groups. Really rough wireframe, showing 2 filter groups with 'view all' link - http://cl.ly/image/3V2t3O0n1p1H  Before we can do this, we only need to display one group of results.

Comment 6

[Luke Crouch [:groovecoder]]

https://github.com/mozilla/kuma/commit/3cb51c93b484926e69eadf70aab019bf81c82dd0

Comment 7

[Luke Crouch [:groovecoder]]

Looks like we still need to: "At bottom of page, add pagination and tell the user how many pages of results there are."

Comment 8

[David Walsh :davidwalsh]

Fixed a few days ago.

Comment 9

[David Walsh :davidwalsh]

Ooops, reopening due to Luke's comment.

Holly, wouldn't this information be best served at the top?  Seems a bit rough to have users scroll to the bottom to get that information.  Maybe we show this information at the top and bottom?

Comment 10

[Holly Habstritt Gaal [:Habber]]

Yes, you're right. I just honestly didn't have the time to mock anything up for you and thought this would be a quick solution in the interim. If you'd like, I can make a wireframe for this sometime next week. Or you can implement it how you'd like and I can take a look.

Comment 11

[David Walsh :davidwalsh]

I have an outstanding PR for it, so I'll have Luke merge it and we can go from there.  Thanks!

Comment 12

[[github robot]]

Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/mozilla/kuma

https://github.com/mozilla/kuma/commit/21c57ac7f9795691de6e6c875334ccfc38457276
fix bug 927914 - Add result count to results page.

https://github.com/mozilla/kuma/commit/da1350c7c17f9aaac73806325420524acf091ddd
Merge pull request #1563 from darkwing/result-detail-927914

fix bug 927914 - Add result count to results page.