Integrated searches: what are the best metrics, and how to get them

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We have an integrated search set up in our community. A user search returns results from both the community and from our documentation stored in Salesforce. The two sets of returns are available to the user through a tabbed interface.

My basic question: what are the possibilities/best practices for getting data about the success of user searches in each tab (community & documentation)?

I understand that in Admin/Reporting, I can see the Top Searches and Searches with No Results, and I can filter by group and roles, etc. But how do I gain a better understanding about which kinds of results (those from the community vs. those from Salesforce) are more successful? In other words, is there a way to get a more granular report where I can see, say, what percentage of searches lead a user to click on community-based content vs. Salesforce-based content? Is there a way to compare the number of results returned in a community-based search vs. a Salesforce-based search?

I'm interested in understanding not only what's possible but also what best practices are. I'm just sinking into this issue and will take any and all insight. Thanks!

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    Is this integrated search a customization of the search plugin? If so, you've already dug in to making changes around the presentation of the search results. We don't have out-of-the-box tracking for content view sources. One way you might be able to accomplish this via the search plugin directly would be to alter the urls displayed by the search widget to append some referrer information in the query string that could be picked up by an analytics tool. Or if you have an external analytics tool incorporated, such as Google's, it may already have some of this information without the need for query string manipulation. 

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    Is this integrated search a customization of the search plugin? If so, you've already dug in to making changes around the presentation of the search results. We don't have out-of-the-box tracking for content view sources. One way you might be able to accomplish this via the search plugin directly would be to alter the urls displayed by the search widget to append some referrer information in the query string that could be picked up by an analytics tool. Or if you have an external analytics tool incorporated, such as Google's, it may already have some of this information without the need for query string manipulation. 

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