[lazytown]

Originally Posted by h2ojunkie

Just a thought, but it occurred to me that every time a user clicks on one of the "most searched" keywords on forum home it is actually increasing the count for the # of times that term/phrase was searched for, thereby falsely inflating the true number of searches people did on the term.

Since people are likely to click on them because...they can....it would seem those "most searched" words would be inflated and always remain showing in the top 20 most searched.

Maybe append a new parameter to the end of the link to each of those search terms something like (searchstats=donotcount for example). Where if that parameter is passed when clicking on the link, the searchstats plugin knows not to add to the count for that word/phrase. This way the only words counted in the search stats are terms people actually searched for on their own.

Anyway, just an idea. That was a change on made on mine.

There's no perfect solution to this because either way you are losing some data.. If someone clicks the link perhaps they would have searched for it anyways (and then you are discarding that).

Perhaps if they were kept track of separately (for admins to view)... So you can see how many clicks the 'search links' got on the homepage, and separately how many times someone entered a keyword search. Two separate stats.

Personally, once I have the time to install this mod, I am just going to use it to collect search stats for my own informational purposes (assuming it can be used this way)

-vissa