Some Search Stats from Potter Search (2022)

Posted by on October 02, 2022 · 3 mins read

Hey folks, we’re just two weeks away from the 2nd birthday of Potter Search (a website for searching all 7 Harry Potter books at once), and I decided to compile some stats as a sort of celebration. A few months back I decided to collect some search term data since it’s pretty interesting to see what people are searching with Potter Search.

Search term has been collected from March 3rd, 2022 to now (October 2, 2022). It’s been 7 months. Other user data was collected by Google Analytics since the beginning (October 15, 2020)

Quick Facts

  • There’s been 81,864 queries in the last 7 months.
  • There’s been over 7000 Potter Search users since its launch. The most users in a single day was over 1,100 users (this was very early on when the Reddit posts were first posted).
  • At the time of this writing, there were 123 unique users on Potter Search in the past week.
  • The average user spends just over a minute on Potter Search.
  • People have tried to hack Potter Search! There’s SQL injection attacks (luckily, Potter Search does not use SQL), and Python code pasted into the search bar.

Top 10 Most Searched Terms

  1. snape: 1162

  2. harry: 1115

  3. hermione: 1015

  4. you: 860

  5. and: 672

  6. sirius: 651

  7. said: 461

  8. time: 442

  9. ron: 437

  10. malfoy: 415

Here is a paste with the top 100: https://pastebin.com/9fSe36Xj

10 of the Least Searched Terms (there’s a lot of words only searched once)

  1. mission: 1
  2. codswallop: 1
  3. lonely: 1
  4. crabb: 1
  5. haired: 1
  6. fetching: 1
  7. comely: 1
  8. muscle: 1
  9. talentless: 1
  10. inject: 1

Here are 1000 of the words that were only searched once: https://pastebin.com/i0zdpXUY

10 Longest Search Terms

  1. onethousandmagicalherbsandfungi: 1

  2. he-who-must-not-be-named: 1

  3. katie,leanne,seamus: 3

  4. fifty-year-younger: 1

  5. missunderstanding: 3

  6. unsuperfluousness: 3

  7. attention-seeking: 4

  8. surreptitiousness: 3

  9. entrail-expelling: 1

  10. misunderstanding: 9

Here are 1000 of the longest search terms: https://pastebin.com/FGwLycY6

Potter Search User Geography

  1. USA: 42%

  2. Canada: 15%

  3. UK: 10%

  4. India: 3.5%

  5. Australia: 3%

  6. Germany: ~2%

  7. Netherlands: ~1.5%

  8. Seychelles ~1.5%

  9. Singapore: ~1.3%

  10. Poland: ~1.3%

Comment if there’s any other data or statistic that you woud like to see!

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