You'll verify the critical parts of your Site Search setup before launch. By the end, you'll know that your data is ingested, your search configuration is live, your UI is functional and accessible, analytics is tracking, and your dictionaries or profiles are in place.
Step 1: Confirm Successful Data Ingestion
- Log in to Site Search and open your Search App.
- Click Preview and search for
*to see all indexed documents. - Check that:
- All expected content types are present
- Key fields (e.g., title, description, image) are populated
- If anything is missing:
- Connector: Revisit field mappings and re-index.
- Crawler: Adjust include/exclude patterns, then re-crawl.
- Ingest API: Confirm payload includes all required fields.
Tip: Spot-check a few known items in your site against what appears in Search Preview.
Step 2: Verify Essential Search Configuration
- Go to Configurations > Results Fields. Confirm your chosen fields appear in Preview.
- Go to Configurations > Facets & Filters. Confirm facets display in the UI and filters apply correctly.
- Go to Configurations > Ranking. Confirm boost values are set for key fields.
- Test stopwords and spell check in Preview.
Note: Configuration changes in Site Search only go live after you click Publish.
Step 3: Review Relevancy and Plan Post-Launch Tuning
- Confirm Search Fields and Ranking are already validated for your baseline query set.
- Confirm Stop Words and Spell Check are configured and tested if your implementation needs them.
- Enable Smart Ranking and Smart Answers only after baseline relevance quality is confirmed.
- Test common queries and confirm the most relevant results appear first.
- If your plan includes Analytics, check Analytics for unexpected no-result queries.
- Plan to revisit ranking, Stop Words, and synonyms after you have meaningful production usage data.
Use these related setup guides during review:
- Setting Up Search Fields, Ranking, Stop Words, and Spell Check
- Enable Smart Answers and Smart Ranking
Step 4: Validate UI Integration
In your staging or production-like environment:
- Search for known terms. Confirm results match Search Preview.
- Test facets, filters, and sorting.
- Verify that the UI works in your supported browsers. Make sure it's keyboard-navigable and reads correctly with a screen reader.
Tip: If you used UI Kits, confirm all components (search bar, results, facets, sorting) display and style correctly.
Step 5: Check Analytics Tracking
If your plan includes Analytics:
- In Site Search, go to Analytics > Dashboard.
- Perform a few searches and click results in your staging environment.
- Wait up to 1 hour, then refresh the Dashboard.
- Confirm search and click events are recorded.
Note: If you used UI kits or built a custom UI, confirm click tracking is implemented.
Step 6: Confirm Dictionaries and Production Search Profiles
If your staging app differs from production:
- Copy custom dictionaries (synonyms, stopwords, spellcheck) to the Search Profile that will be active in production.
- For each supported language, confirm that language-specific dictionaries are configured as expected.
Verification
You're ready to launch if:
- Data ingestion matches your source content
- All intended search features work in your UI
- Accessibility checks pass
- Analytics events are tracked
- Dictionaries and Search Profiles are correctly configured
What's Next
Your search experience is ready for production. Review how-to and troubleshooting articles to resolve any issues post-launch or contact Support if our guides don't cover your issue.