Distinguish between similar pages on search results page

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Distinguish between similar pages on search results page #5538

Open JonellaCulmer opened 1 year ago

JonellaCulmer commented 1 year ago

What we're after: Observed some pages that look identical at a glance in the global search results. We should think through opportunities to reduce any cognitive load to differentiating similar looking/titled pages.

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Action items:

[ ] Other than search results, explore where else this may be a problem on the website
[ ] Research removing wagtail menu titles--if they will all be in our page titles

Completion criteria

[ ] Documented recommendations to make search results better for scanning and reducing cognitive load

JonellaCulmer commented 1 year ago

Slack convo: https://fecgov.slack.com/archives/C3X3K6EVA/p1672859728833599

rfultz commented 9 months ago

It seems like we could fix this specific example by changing the title of the pages to indicate the difference, e.g.

Credit card disbursements (filing PAC reports)
Credit card disbursements (filing SSF reports)
Credit card disbursements (filing reports)
Credit card disbursements (filing political party reports)

Could we do a quick db dump of page titles and quickly see similarities? (page title, social media title, etc)

JonellaCulmer commented 9 months ago

@rfultz RAD specifically does not want to do that. But a db dump of page titles could help in other ways.

JonellaCulmer commented 6 months ago

Blocked by https://github.com/fecgov/fec-cms/issues/5945