Click-Through Rate (Search)

Search click-through rate (CTR) is the percentage of search queries where the shopper clicked at least one result, used as a proxy for whether the results returned looked relevant.

Part of Search Analytics

A low CTR on a high-volume query is a common signal that something is wrong with the results for that query — even when the search technically returned products, since a zero-result query trivially has zero CTR by definition and doesn't need this metric to flag it.

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