Website documentation search metrics

[marco-ippolito]

I think it would be useful to have the metrics about documentation search.
This would allows us to know which part of the docs are being searched more/have more traffic.
For example I'd like to know if user are searching for type stripping or node.config.json.

[avivkeller]

I believe the foundation has access to the search engine data (cc @ryanaslett, iirc)

And @nodejs/web-infra has the on site search data

[MattIPv4]

web-infra should hopefully soon also have access to search engine data: nodejs/build#4127

[bmuenzenmeyer]

orama would have this potentially?

[ryanaslett]

The search data that we have access to is the Google Search Console, which is information about what people are googling.

You can filter the query data, but it might be more of a 'walk around in the data to find what you want'

What we don't know is who's asking their LLM's about type stripping or node.config.json, which makes analysis of this somewhat challenging. Cant necessarily assume that google search data is a representative sample of what users are doing.

[marco-ippolito]

orama would have this potentially?

ping @micheleriva

[micheleriva]

We can definitely provide these metrics if you like! We have a PR open (#8175) and it would be easier for us to deliver these metrics once that PR is merged, since it migrates the Node.js website to the new Orama infra.

Aside from that, please let me know if there's any specific metric you'd like us to track!