Case Study: Culture Kings achieves faster search and higher conversions with Algolia

Culture Kings speeds up Search experience with Algolia

Culture Kings, an ecommerce retailer, needed a faster, more engaging search experience to help shoppers find products quickly and support both online sales and in-store service. The company turned to Algolia Search and later Algolia Recommend to power search and recommendations across its site.

With Algolia, Culture Kings achieved search results in under 50 milliseconds for 90% of users and under 100 milliseconds for 99%, helping drive major business gains. Search sessions converted 4x better, average order value rose 2.22%, and Black Friday revenue increased 5.18% year over year, with e-commerce conversions up nearly 15% between 2021 and 2022.

Culture Kings

Steve Jiang

Head of Front-end Engineering