A search query with a purpose of finding a certain website is called a navigational query. Such queries include "sberbank", "komsomolskaya pravda", "rambler", "gazeta ru", etc.

The best result for a navigational query is the required site in the first position of search results.

For evaluation of navigational search, the search engines were tested with 200 queries randomly selected from the array of navigational queries. Each query was assigned one or more site/marker. The top 10 search results are checked for the site/marker entries. When several sites/markers were assigned to a query, each of them listed in one of the top positions was considered a hit. The percentage of queries which yielded the site/marker on the first page was calculated. This number is the aggregate indicator of the quality of navigational search.

The best search engine is the one with highest aggregate indicator for this analyzer. In the informer, the search engines are sorted by the aggregate indicator.