Case Study: Futonland achieves 100ms autocomplete and typo-tolerant search with Constructor.io

Search Autocomplete Improves User Experience

Futonland is a specialty eCommerce retailer of futons and urban home furnishings that has sold online since 1998 and ships to all 50 states. Facing poor search performance—search results that could take five seconds or more, frequent misspellings that returned wrong or no results, and missed opportunities to surface category and policy pages—Futonland engaged Constructor.io to implement an advanced autocomplete solution.

Constructor.io’s autocomplete now returns results in about 100 milliseconds for tens of thousands of queries, replacing slow search pages and reducing friction. Its typo-tolerance and phonetic intelligence automatically handle misspellings without custom rules, and important category and journey pages (Shipping, Returns, Store Locations) are surfaced directly from the search box. The result: noticeably smoother site use and improved customer feedback, with Constructor.io solving the “single biggest inconvenience” on Futonland’s site.

Futonland

Eddie Bekov

CEO & Founder