B
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57.9%
57.9% -- ai overview appearance rate for Google question-format queries (2025)
57.9% of question-format queries triggered an AI Overview.
- International desktop benchmark, not a UK-specific population metric.
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Value
57.9%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2025
Entity
Sample Size
146,122,391
Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
95
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
60
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Ahrefs
Primary
Tier A
https://cgomedia.com/google-ai-overview-statistics-uk-2026/ ↗
Source Article
Google AI Overview Statistics UK 2026 | 50 Key Stats | CGO Media
Google AI Overviews have moved from an experimental search feature into a major component of the modern Google Search experience. For UK businesses, publishers and organisations, the change matters because Google can now answer many searches directly within the results page before a user reaches a c…
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Ahrefs
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Methodology
Ahrefs dataset; non-question rate 15.5%
Methodology documented
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Industrymarketing
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Google question-format queries: 57.9% ai overview appearance rate. Source: Ahrefs (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/ai-overviews-question-queries-2025
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/ai-overviews-question-queries-2025" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>57.9%</strong> -- ai overview appearance rate for Google question-format queries<br><small>Source: Ahrefs (2025) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/ai-overviews-question-queries-2025" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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