I noticed many bilingual friends search in their native language on English Wikipedia. It would be interesting to look closely at search terms and see if they are mispellings, different languages or just our search failing them.
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 11:01 PM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
Thanks.
This is not directly related, but some time I'd love to see data about interlanguage links tapping on all media - iOS, Android, MobileFrontend.
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2014-12-04 4:15 GMT+02:00 Dan Garry dgarry@wikimedia.org:
We've now got some preliminary data in about how effective our search is in mobile apps. Note that this is only half a day's data, and it's sampled at 1%.
High-level metrics:
Number of searching sessions which end by tapping on a result: 91% Percentage of queries that give 0 results: 19% Mean queries per searching session: 3.8 Median user-perceived time taken to retrieve search results: 486ms 90th percentile of user-perceived time taken: 898ms
My quick take-homes from this:
91% clickthrough seems pretty good. 19% of queries giving "no results" seems really bad. The combination of the above two means users are generally finding what they need, but that it's a struggle to do it. User-perceived performance seems pretty good; 90% of our users get search results within a second!
What I think our next steps are:
Push out our new search improvements and see how these baselines change. Try to tackle the "0 results" problem, which seems to be more of a problem than clickthrough.
Spreadsheet containing my queries and processed data: https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/spreadsheets/d/1syLgNygAS7Prxxg7RTIv...
Dan
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