Engine stats - duckduckgo

Engine name

Scores

Result count

Response time

Reliability

duckduckgo

0.9

0.7

	Total	HTTP
Median	0.7	0.7
P80	0.8	0.8
P95	1.0	1.0

Errors and exceptions

Exception	httpx.ConnectTimeout	Percentage	5
Parameter	NoneNonehtml.duckduckgo.com
Filename	searx/search/processors/online.py:203
Function	_send_http_request
Code	response = req(params["url"], **request_args)

Exception	searx.exceptions.SearxEngineXPathException	Percentage	0
Parameter	//div[@id="zero_click_abstract"]/a/@hrefindex 0 not found
Filename	searx/engines/duckduckgo.py:381
Function	response
Code	url=eval_xpath_getindex(doc, '//div[@id="zero_click_abstract"]/a/@href', 0), # type: ignore

**Version of SearXNG, commit number if you are using on master branch and stipulate if you forked SearXNG**
Repository: https://github.com/searxng/searxng
Branch: master
Version: 2025.10.18+ee6d4f322

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Error
  * Error: httpx.ConnectTimeout
  * Percentage: 5
  * Parameters: `(None, None, 'html.duckduckgo.com')`
  * File name: `searx/search/processors/online.py:203`
  * Function: `_send_http_request`
  * Code: `response = req(params["url"], **request_args)`

Error
  * Error: searx.exceptions.SearxEngineXPathException
  * Percentage: 0
  * Parameters: `('//div[@id="zero_click_abstract"]/a/@href', 'index 0 not found')`
  * File name: `searx/engines/duckduckgo.py:381`
  * Function: `response`
  * Code: `url=eval_xpath_getindex(doc, '//div[@id="zero_click_abstract"]/a/@href', 0),  # type: ignore`

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