Recent studies show that the leading cause of website abandonment is the lack of a well-structured search function.
Sometimes it is almost impossible to use the contents of a blog or e-commerce easily.
If your visitor can’t immediately find the article or the product he’s interested in, he’ll look for it elsewhere.
All this translates into lost opportunities for you and your business.
Fortunately, there are excellent solutions; the best choice is to implement Algolia as a search engine.
What is Algolia
Algolia is a service that helps you create real-time searches in sites, web apps, and mobile apps.
Using predefined and customizable widgets, you can quickly implement efficient, flexible, and in-depth searches on sites and apps.
Why use Algolia
There are three main reasons to use Algolia: UX (User Experience), implementation, and business benefits.
User Experience:
Algolia provides users with a fast and rich search experience.
Its user interface can contain a search bar with filters, infinite scrolling, search suggestions, sorting options, etc., helping users find what they are looking for quickly.
Implementation:
Algolia provides several tools that simplify the process of creating and integrating a complete search experience into your sites and applications, for example:
- Back-end in many different languages
- Front-end widgets to create web and mobile search experiences
- Integrations with popular frameworks and platforms
- Ability to integrate into existing projects
- A secure, distributed search network that hosts content and delivers it quickly to customers
- A transparent and customizable relevance algorithm
- A highly optimized search engine built, from the ground up, in C++
- Extensive documentation, implementation guides, and code examples
Business:
Algolia provides a dashboard that allows you to customize and visualize your search analysis without any coding.
The dashboard enables business and marketing teams to engage and personalize your users’ search experience.
From the dashboard, you can:
- Promote specific products or brands
- Add customizations to search
- Try different search configurations
- Get insights and analysis on user behavior
- Get insights and analysis on products.
Some practical examples of applications ALGOLIA implementation:
Many companies in the world use Algolia to improve search and User Experience on their websites and Apps; here is a small list:
LACOSTE
Lacoste achieves +150% sales contribution from search:
Improve online merchandising with a modern user experience
Boost speed and relevance for search as a key navigation element
Find a solution that is both developer-friendly and empowers business stakeholders to modify and
improve the user experience
PUBNUB
PubNub is using Algolia Site Search to shorten the buyer's journey.
"By offering a frictionless experience to our visitors,
extended insights to our marketing team, and
simplicity for anyone to manage the experience,
Algolia is the pillar of our digital experience".
SHIPSTATION
Rapid growth requires rapid search that scales to over 2.5 billion annual searches.
We wanted to enable our users to search for and find their order status using any information related to the order.
DECATHLON SINGAPORE
Driving 50% higher conversion rate with omnichannel, personalized search
Reduce the "no result" rate from 5% to 1.8%.
... and their conversion rate by 50%.
How we can help you with ALGOLIA
- Strategy: Migration from existing platforms or set-up of new features while minimizing the risk and impact on your systems.
- Evaluation: Designing a model that fits your data and workload.
- Design: Creating a robust solution based on your usage needs, data volume, growth needs, business requirements, and other critical factors.
- Implementation: We will guide you through the development and implementation of your Algolia solutions.
- Deployment: We will help you configure and activate all features for your test or production environment.
