Case Study: GrowthHackers achieves 4–5× search volume and deeper user engagement with Algolia

Inside GrowthHackers.com’s Implementation of Algolia

GrowthHackers.com, a community for marketers, founders and product people, struggled with the built‑in WordPress search that only indexed outbound URLs and returned poor results. As the site evolved into an encyclopedia for growth-related content and search demand grew into the mid‑hundreds per week, active users began complaining and the team realized they needed a far more capable search solution.

They implemented Algolia for real‑time, typo‑tolerant search, indexing article titles and URLs and ranking results by votes and comments; a job queue and cron process keep the Algolia index synced with frequently edited posts. Since the launch, search volume has increased 4–5x, visitors who use search view 2–3x more pages and spend 5–6x longer on the site, and the team now uses Algolia analytics to guide further improvements like adding filters.

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Dylan La Com

Growth Product Manager