Ecommerce ops · Production

Industrial safety gear company improves search speed and relevance with Algolia

The problem

Ergodyne's Magento site with Solr search was slow, required heavy developer involvement for configuration changes, and couldn't adequately serve its wide mix of B2B users — distributors, sales reps, and end customers — who needed both product search and content resources.

First attempt

Solr on the Magento platform could not deliver the multi-faceted search capabilities needed for Ergodyne's diverse B2B customer base without ongoing, resource-intensive developer effort from its small digital marketing team.

Workflow diagram · grounded in source
1
User initiates global search
trigger
“35 to 45 percent of people who go to our site are using our global navigation search”
2
Products and pricing indexed
integration
“the team used Algolia to build out its entire pricing index in only about a month because of its fast-indexing capabilities”
3
Federated content search expanded
integration
“updated its global federated search to include a wide array of blog articles, documents, videos, and podcasts, as well as its product mix”
4
Filtered and merchandised results delivered
output
“Improved Search relevance through Filters & Facets Flexible merchandising using Query Rules and the Visual Merchandiser”
5
Monthly analytics review
feedback_loop
“We spend time every month looking at the analytics and making sure that we're understanding how people are using our site and if there are any issues between search results and click results”
Reported outcome

After adopting Algolia, Ergodyne saw a 190% increase in global search interactions, six times the number of click throughs, and a 100% improvement in no-results rates, with the global search navigator now used 35 to 40 percent of the time.

Reported metrics
Global search interactions190%
Click throughs from searchsix times
No results rate improvement100%
Global search navigator usage rate35 to 40 percent
Reported stack
AlgoliaDrupal
Source
https://www.algolia.com/customers/ergodyne
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Frequently asked questions

What did this team achieve with this AI workflow?

After adopting Algolia, Ergodyne saw a 190% increase in global search interactions, six times the number of click throughs, and a 100% improvement in no-results rates, with the global search navigator now used 35 to 4…

What tools did this team use?

Algolia, Drupal.

What results were reported?

Global search interactions: 190%; Click throughs from search: six times; No results rate improvement: 100%; Global search navigator usage rate: 35 to 40 percent (source-reported, not independently verified).

What failed first in this deployment?

Solr on the Magento platform could not deliver the multi-faceted search capabilities needed for Ergodyne's diverse B2B customer base without ongoing, resource-intensive developer effort from its small digital marketin…

How is this ecommerce ops AI workflow structured?

User initiates global search → Products and pricing indexed → Federated content search expanded → Filtered and merchandised results delivered → Monthly analytics review.