Algolia number of queries

Are you using Autocomplete, Instantsearch, or perhaps both?

If autocomplete, how many different content types have you enabled Autocomplete for? I’m curious if you’re using either for just what are considered “searchable posts” and if yes, you could just use the “All Posts” autocomplete option which reuses the “wp_searchable_posts” index.

This would be different as compared to checking “Posts” and “Pages” etc which gives distinct sections in the autocomplete dropdown, but also separate indexes that would be searched.

Hi !

I use both Autocomplete and Instantsearch, and I have two indexes, wp_post_product and wp_searchable_posts, which are copies and both contain 1500 records (only products). I have 1k-3k Search requests/ days…

• This reply was modified 1 year, 8 months ago by adrien99.

Not a definitive answer overall, but checking/reviewing the information at https://www.algolia.com/doc/guides/building-search-ui/going-further/optimize-search-request-usage/js/ won’t hurt, just to help identify sources.

This page could potentially offer some ideas too https://support.algolia.com/hc/en-us/articles/4406981900433-Monitoring-Search-Operations

Beyond that, it may require modifying the default templates to handle searching multiple indices in single requests. Something like found at https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/api-methods/multiple-queries/?client=javascript but that’s also going to take some coding know-how with their libraries.

Ok thank you for this information, I have looked into all of that, and I also have a question about the indexes. I deleted one called “searchable_post” and it was recreated, how is this managed? Is a build done at regular intervals?

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The searchable posts index is the one we have set up that handles the InstantSearch results as well as “All posts” from Autocomplete if you’re going with that shorthand vs specific post types for autocomplete.

Any particular reason you’re wanting to get rid of that specific index? For example trying to make use of an index that was already created and has your intended searchable content?

Because i want make research only on all products and not all posts. I have two search entries (possible to see on elyamaje.com), and post_products is the good one.

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If you’re wanting to limit searchable posts to only include a specific post type, say “products”, then you could use something like the following filter:

function wds_algolia_override_searchable_post_types( $searchable_posts ) {
	return [ 'product' => 'product' ];
}
add_filter( 'algolia_searchable_post_types', 'wds_algolia_override_searchable_post_types' );

This would remove things like ‘post’, ‘page’, and any other that have “exclude from search” set to false with their registration, from consideration.