Search Intent

Satisfied

The visitor opened another page, submitted a form, clicked a phone number, email address, WhatsApp link or outside link, or stayed active for at least 30 seconds. Outside links count on purpose: a reader who clicks through to your source has usually found what they needed.

Quick exit

The visitor left within 10 seconds without doing any of that. For visitors from search, this is the clearest sign that the page did not answer the query. A visit of 10 to 30 seconds with no action counts as unclear.

Active time, not open time

The clock starts when the page opens and runs only while the tab is in the foreground. It pauses after 30 seconds without a scroll, mouse move, keystroke or touch. A tab left open in the background adds nothing.

The median, not the average

The median is the middle visit: half were shorter, half longer. A few very long visits pull an average up but barely move the median. Next to it, the plugin shows how far visitors scroll.

Freshness

The Lab checks when the post was last updated and flags wording that makes it look old, such as "in 2023" once that year is over. Older years are usually history and are left alone.

Broken links and missing pieces

Broken and redirected links, domains that no longer respond, images that stopped loading or have no alt text, and a missing meta description in your SEO plugin. Structure counts too: a long post with no subheadings, or paragraphs that run far too long.

Link checks without false alarms

The Lab checks up to 60 links and 40 images per post. Sites that refuse automated requests (401, 403 or 429) are listed as not checkable, never as broken. Addresses on private or local networks are never requested, not even through a redirect.

An AI review with evidence

The AI reads the measured behavior, the diagnosis and the text together. Its advice comes in order of priority, and each item names the paragraph it is about. On a test post, it opened with three facts: 56% of visits were quick exits, similar pages satisfied 72% of their visitors, and the first sentence did not answer the question.

A live model list

The list of models loads from the provider itself, so no outdated model name is hard-coded into the plugin. With OpenRouter, one key opens up models from many providers.

Saved prompts

Save your house style or tone as prompts, pick a default and add a one-off instruction to any run.

A monthly cap

You set how many AI runs are allowed each month, which keeps the bill in check. Every run starts with your click, and nothing runs in the background.

The key stays with you

It is stored only on your server and never shown again after you save it. When you delete the plugin, the key goes with it, whatever your data setting.

Batched writes

Packets go into a buffer file first and reach the database in batches once a minute, so a busy site does not get a database write for every page view. The Overview and Pages reports read daily totals and stay fast as the data grows.

Page caching is safe

The tracker settings are part of the page and hold nothing tied to one visitor, so a cached page is measured just like a fresh one. When you activate the plugin or turn measurement on or off, it also clears the cache of known caching plugins.

Delayed JavaScript is handled

The real risk is the option that holds JavaScript back until the first interaction: a visitor who leaves without touching the page would never be counted. Search Intent automatically excludes itself from the delay, defer, combine and minify settings of these tools: WP Rocket, LiteSpeed Cache, FlyingPress, Perfmatters, Hummingbird, Speed Optimizer, Jetpack Boost, Autoptimize, Breeze, WP-Optimize, WP Fastest Cache, NitroPack and Cloudflare Rocket Loader.

And it notices

If another tool still holds the script back, the plugin notices and shows a warning that spells out the fix.

AI review and improvements

Off until you add a key. When you click Review this page or Prepare improvements, the following goes to the provider you chose: the post's text, title and address, the totals measured for that page, the Lab diagnosis and the earlier AI review, your admin language and your prompt. Image file names go along when you ask for alt text, and the titles and addresses of up to 25 related posts when you ask for internal links. Opening Settings refreshes the model list at most once a day; that request carries only your key. Data about individual visits is never sent.

Link check

When you click Run diagnosis, the plugin checks the links and images in that one post. These requests carry no data about your site.

A daily self-test

Once a day the plugin sends a test request to your own site to make sure visitors can reach the address the script sends its data to. It goes nowhere else, carries no data and is not counted as a visit. If a security plugin blocks the REST API for visitors, Search Intent switches to admin-ajax on its own.

Never stored: IP addresses and user agents. For devices, only the type is kept: phone, tablet or desktop. Nothing is written to the visitor's browser, so no cookies, no localStorage and no sessionStorage. For referring sites, only the domain is kept, plus the page path when the browser shares it. The part after the question mark never reaches the database.