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[osmankocak212]

Hello, Google Analytics connections have been made and I can see the search terms. What I want is to see only the search terms that didn’t find any results. What method can I use for this? The analytics part of the plugin is weak in this area, as far as I can see.

[Ernest Marcinko]

Hi,

For that there is indeed no setting as of yet – but it should be easily doable via a small custom code snippet via the javascript API.

For that, I constructed this small snippet, which hooks into the container when the results are displayed and to sends a no_results event with the search phrase in the “phrase” property, when detects 0 results:

add_action(
	'wp_footer',
	function () {
		?>
		<script>
			document.querySelectorAll(".asp_main_container").forEach((el) => {
				el.addEventListener("asp_results_show", (event) => {
					// event.detail carries the arguments
					const [id, instance, phrase] = event.detail;
					const zeroResults = document.querySelectorAll('.asp_r_' + id + '_' + instance + ' .item').length === 0;
					const noresContainerVisible = document.querySelectorAll('.asp_r_' + id + '_' + instance + ' .asp_nores').length > 0;
					if ( zeroResults || noresContainerVisible ) {
						// This is the GTAG event that is sent
						gtag('event', 'no_results', {
							'phrase': phrase,
						});
					}
				});
			});
		</script>
		<?php
	}, 9999
);

Try adding this code via the Code Snippets plugin or to the functions.php file in your theme/child theme directory – make sure to have a full server back-up first for safety. For more details you can check the safe coding guidelines.

If you need any help with this, just le me know!

[osmankocak212]

Do you have any plans to improve this area in new versions? You can see more than the first 20 searches in the analysis section, and there’s a separate section with inconclusive search terms. Your plugin has many shortcomings in this area.

[Ernest Marcinko]

Yes, definitely. Statistics is one of the oldest features due to rework.

If you have any specific suggestions you would like to see there in the future, let me know.

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