diff --git a/languages/plausible-analytics.pot b/languages/plausible-analytics.pot
index 1da8d6fe..caefb004 100644
--- a/languages/plausible-analytics.pot
+++ b/languages/plausible-analytics.pot
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ msgstr ""
 "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"
 "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
 "Language-Team: Plausible Analytics Team <hello@plausible.io>\n"
-"POT-Creation-Date: 2024-08-08 18:11+0000\n"
+"POT-Creation-Date: 2024-10-11 09:10+0000\n"
 "Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: https://github.com/plausible/wordpress/issues/new\n"
 "X-Poedit-Basepath: ..\n"
 "X-Poedit-KeywordsList: __;_e;_ex:1,2c;_n:1,2;_n_noop:1,2;_nx:1,2,4c;_nx_noop:1,2,3c;_x:1,2c;esc_attr__;esc_attr_e;esc_attr_x:1,2c;esc_html__;esc_html_e;esc_html_x:1,2c\n"
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ msgstr ""
 "X-Poedit-SourceCharset: UTF-8\n"
 "Plural-Forms: nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1);\n"
 
-#: src/Actions.php:135
+#: src/Actions.php:140
 msgid "View Analytics"
 msgstr ""
 
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ msgstr ""
 msgid "View Page Analytics"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: src/Actions.php:162, src/Admin/Filters.php:63, src/Admin/Settings/API.php:449
+#: src/Actions.php:166, src/Admin/Filters.php:63, src/Admin/Settings/API.php:449
 msgid "Settings"
 msgstr ""
 
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ msgstr ""
 msgid "Something went wrong while enabling Pageview Properties: %s"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: src/ClientFactory.php:49
+#: src/ClientFactory.php:57
 msgid "cURL is not enabled on this server, which means API provisioning will not work. Please contact your hosting provider to enable the cURL module or <code>allow_url_fopen</code>."
 msgstr ""
 
diff --git a/src/Actions.php b/src/Actions.php
index e29b98d5..e7ab70e6 100644
--- a/src/Actions.php
+++ b/src/Actions.php
@@ -94,8 +94,7 @@ public function maybe_register_assets() {
 			$data   = wp_json_encode(
 				[
 					'props' => [
-						// convert queries to lowercase and remove trailing whitespace to ensure same terms are grouped together
-						'search_query' => strtolower(trim(get_search_query())),
+						'search_query' => get_search_query(),
 						'result_count' => $wp_query->found_posts,
 					],
 				]
diff --git a/src/Admin/Settings/Hooks.php b/src/Admin/Settings/Hooks.php
index a6b753df..e08e9eed 100644
--- a/src/Admin/Settings/Hooks.php
+++ b/src/Admin/Settings/Hooks.php
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ public function maybe_modify_success_message( $message, $option_name, $status )
 	 * @since  1.3.0
 	 * @output HTML
 	 */
-	 public function proxy_warning() {
+	public function proxy_warning() {
 		if ( ! empty( Helpers::get_settings()[ 'self_hosted_domain' ] ) ) {
 			echo sprintf(
 				wp_kses(