How-to guide

How to see the searches you repeat most

Open Analytics and click Searches. Top searches lists what you looked for most, read from your own history.

Tested in Chrome 155 and History Monk 0.1.4 Free for 7 days No account

Quick steps

See your searches in three steps

  1. Open Analytics

    Click Searches at the top.

  2. Read Top searches

    The searches you repeat most, with a count.

  3. Click one

    History searches your pages for it.

Before you start: add History Monk from the Chrome Web Store or Firefox Add-ons. The Chrome Web Store version also installs in Edge.

Step 1: Open Analytics and click Searches

Click Analytics in the sidebar, then Searches at the top. The figures cover the range picked under Time in the sidebar.

Step 2: Read Top searches

Top searches lists the searches you ran most, with how many times. A search you repeated 5 times or more is marked worth a bookmark.

History Monk Top searches card: swift sleep for one second 9 times, ai agents 8 times, how does the northern lights work 8 times, each marked worth a bookmark
Your most repeated searches, read from your history.

History Monk finds the search words in the addresses of search pages, like Google’s q= or YouTube’s search_query=. It works on your computer and sends nothing anywhere.

Step 3: Click a search to find its pages

Click a search and History opens with those words in the search box, so you see every page that matches.

History Monk History view searching swift sleep for one second, with two Google search pages
Clicking swift sleep for one second searches your history for it.

More in the Searches section

  • Where you search counts your searches by site, like google.com or youtube.com.
  • What you read about lists the most common words in your page titles. Click a word to search for it.
History Monk What you read about card with words such as search 2,019, issue 371, request 340, pull 326 and javascript 268
The words that fill your page titles.

Tips

FAQ

Questions about top searches

Where do the searches come from?

From the search pages in your browsing history. History Monk reads the search words from the address, like Google's q= or YouTube's search_query=. Nothing is sent anywhere.

What does worth a bookmark mean?

You ran that search 5 times or more. If you keep looking for the same thing, a bookmark gets you there faster.

What is What you read about?

The most common words in your page titles. Click one to search your history for it.

The wise search once. History Monk remembers the rest.