Case Study: StuDocu achieves 20%+ conversion lift and reduced search maintenance costs with Algolia

Improving Search to Increase Stickiness, Grow Subscribers and Drive Content Sharing

StuDocu, a student-founded e-learning marketplace used by over 15 million students to share notes and study materials, relied on search as a core part of its user journey and conversion funnel. Their Elasticsearch setup made it hard to test or tweak relevance without specialist engineering effort, limiting the team’s ability to improve stickiness, surface relevant free content, and grow subscriptions.

Migrating document search to Algolia gave StuDocu an easy-to-manage, scalable, multi‑language solution with dashboard-driven A/B testing, personalization, dynamic re-ranking and analytics. The move improved search relevance and engagement, drove a 20%+ lift in content consumption and conversions, and cut infrastructure and developer maintenance costs—removing the need for specialized search expertise.

StuDocu

Elvira Romashkina

Discovery & Engagement Product Manager