TOLOGIX - ISLG Maintenance

Project dealing with all ongoing maintenance of the current ISLG application (www.investorstatelawguide.com and dev.investorstatelawguide.com).

Adding Google Analytics for Global Search

Assigned to
Anil Vaghela Anil V. Harsh Parikh, Tech Lead at DevIT Harsh P. Melissa Cowell, General Manager at Industrial Melissa C. Ryan Knuth, Customer Support Manager at Industrial Ryan K. Stefanie Gibson, UX Researcher at Industrial Stefanie G.
Notes
For the purposes of the rebuild, could Harsh Parikh, Tech Lead at DevIT Harsh and Anil Vaghela Anil provide feedback on the feasibility create a separate URL when users perform a search with the Global Search. Currently, when a search is performed, the URL does not change and stays on https://www.investorstatelawguide.com/User/Welcome. This prevents us from tracking how often the search is used through Google Analytics. We'd like to track this over the next few weeks, to determine how often the tool is used, and whether to maintain it in the new rebuilt ISLG.

Comments & Events

Harsh Parikh, Tech Lead at DevIT
Hi Morgan Maguire, CEO Morgan and Ryan Knuth, Customer Support Manager at Industrial Ryan ,

Yes. It is feasible to create separate URL when user perform search with the Global Search. We would like to suggest the following solution for separate the GlobalSearch URL.

For e.g,
  1. If user perform a search with "Canada" then new URL will make like https://www.investorstatelawguide.com/GlobalSearch/Canada
  2. If user perform a search with "Nationality" then new URL will be make like https://www.investorstatelawguide.com/GlobalSearch/Nationality
It means, when user clicks on Go button then search keyword will be automatically append after the GlobalSearch in URL.

In case, After login, If user directly browse the following URLs then also global search result will be populated on page.
https://www.investorstatelawguide.com/GlobalSearch/Nationality

Please suggest.
Morgan Maguire, CEO
Great. Thanks Harsh Parikh, Tech Lead at DevIT Harsh . Sounds like a good approach to me. However, I'll let Ryan Knuth, Customer Support Manager at Industrial Ryan comment before we decide whether to proceed.

Morgan 
Harsh Parikh, Tech Lead at DevIT
Hi Ryan Knuth, Customer Support Manager at Industrial Ryan ,

Please share your thoughts/feedback on above solution.
Ryan Knuth, Customer Support Manager at Industrial
Hi Harsh Parikh, Tech Lead at DevIT Harsh  

We'll hold off on this work until we see how the google analytics event tracking works out.

Thanks!

Ryan
Harsh Parikh, Tech Lead at DevIT
OK Thanks Ryan Knuth, Customer Support Manager at Industrial Ryan  for the update.
Stefanie Gibson, UX Researcher at Industrial
Jumping in here - I don't think we care what their search term is as much as we just want to track its usage. My concern is that we're making it too complicated to analyze if the URL is constantly changing with the search query. When I was thinking about this, I was thinking that all we'd need is just the aggregate data on how often the global search is used - not their search query. While this is interesting, I think if we wanted to track the search terms, we should probably do it through the site search in google analytics.

For now, I'd say just changing it to https://www.investorstatelawguide.com/GlobalSearch would be sufficient.

Maybe you all had some conversations while I was away. 
Stefanie Gibson, UX Researcher at Industrial
nevermind :)
Harsh Parikh, Tech Lead at DevIT
Hi Morgan Maguire, CEO Morgan and Ryan Knuth, Customer Support Manager at Industrial Ryan ,

Could you please tell what is status of this task ? Shall we continue or not ?
Ryan Knuth, Customer Support Manager at Industrial
Hi Harsh Parikh, Tech Lead at DevIT Harsh . The event tracking is working well on www.islg now. I don't believe we need to do this task, but I'll let Morgan Maguire, CEO Morgan decide incase there's a business case for tracking the value of the search.

Ryan
Morgan Maguire, CEO
Hi Harsh Parikh, Tech Lead at DevIT Harsh ,

I'll let Ryan Knuth, Customer Support Manager at Industrial Ryan confirm, but I believe this task is on hold, because we were able to generate the relevant GA results without amending the URLs.

Thanks,

Morgan 
Morgan Maguire, CEO
OK. Thanks Ryan Knuth, Customer Support Manager at Industrial Ryan . I think we need to move on from this issue. I'm marking the to-do complete.

Morgan 
Morgan Maguire, CEO
Morgan Maguire completed this to-do.