Acquia Search powered by SearchStax

Acquia Search powered by SearchStax

Frequently asked questions

Benefits

The following are the benefits of using Acquia Search powered by SearchStax:

• Provides the following analytics enhancements for a richer analytics experience than legacy Acquia Search:

  • Updates the Site Search analytics dashboard every hour.
  • Provides access to dedicated analytics dashboards.

  Marketers and site owners can easily access the available dashboards and review key metrics such as popular searches, searches with no results, click-through rate, and average click position.

• Provides AI features for Smart Match Assist, Smart Answers, and Related Searches included in the Premier Plus plan.
• Enables you to index non-Drupal content through crawler and APIs included in the Premier Plus plan.
• Provides support for multiple languages, which includes language-specific analytics, synonyms, stopwords, and ranking. For additional information, refer to Supported languages.

• Provides support for the following frameworks:

  • React
  • Vue
  • Angular
  • JavaScript

  Acquia provides UI kits for these frameworks.

• Enables you to use the SearchStax dashboard to manage synonyms, stopwords, and relevance.
• Uses AWS Shield for DDoS protection.
• Sends email notifications when usage reaches 60%, 80%, and 100% of entitlements.
• Allows you to scale your search limits through paid add-ons rather than requiring an immediate full tier upgrade.

Constraints

Acquia Search powered by SearchStax currently has the following constraints:

• Provides lower indexing speed compared to legacy Acquia Search. Acquia will increase the indexing speed in one of the upcoming releases.

• Allows limited Solr schema customization through its API because of limited Solr administrative access.

• Does not currently allow to block bot traffic at the API level. For improved bot management, Acquia recommends that you use a Web Application (glossary term, activate to view definition) Firewall (WAF) such as Cloudflare.

Benefits

The following are the benefits of using Acquia Search powered by SearchStax:

• Provides the following analytics enhancements for a richer analytics experience than legacy Acquia Search:

  • Updates the Site Search analytics dashboard every hour.
  • Provides access to dedicated analytics dashboards.

  Marketers and site owners can easily access the available dashboards and review key metrics such as popular searches, searches with no results, click-through rate, and average click position.

• Provides AI features for Smart Match Assist, Smart Answers, and Related Searches included in the Premier Plus plan.
• Enables you to index non-Drupal content through crawler and APIs included in the Premier Plus plan.
• Provides support for multiple languages, which includes language-specific analytics, synonyms, stopwords, and ranking. For additional information, refer to Supported languages.

• Provides support for the following frameworks:

  • React
  • Vue
  • Angular
  • JavaScript

  Acquia provides UI kits for these frameworks.

• Enables you to use the SearchStax dashboard to manage synonyms, stopwords, and relevance.
• Uses AWS Shield for DDoS protection.
• Sends email notifications when usage reaches 60%, 80%, and 100% of entitlements.
• Allows you to scale your search limits through paid add-ons rather than requiring an immediate full tier upgrade.

Constraints

Acquia Search powered by SearchStax currently has the following constraints:

• Provides lower indexing speed compared to legacy Acquia Search. Acquia will increase the indexing speed in one of the upcoming releases.

• Allows limited Solr schema customization through its API because of limited Solr administrative access.

• Does not currently allow to block bot traffic at the API level. For improved bot management, Acquia recommends that you use a Web Application (glossary term, activate to view definition) Firewall (WAF) such as Cloudflare.

Frequently asked questions