B
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37%
37% -- share of google traffic to news publishers for Google Discover (2023)
Google Discover accounted for 37% of Google traffic to global news publishers in 2023.
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37%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2023
Entity
Sample Size
2,000
Evidence Quality
B
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75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Chartbeat
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https://www.365iwebdesign.co.uk/news/2026/02/06/google-february-2026-discover-core-update-uk-busines… ↗
Source Article
Google's First Discover-Only Core Update: What UK Businesses Need to Know | 365i
Google released its first-ever Discover-specific core update on 5 February 2026. Not a tweak. Not a minor ranking adjustment. A full core update aimed solely at the content feed that now drives 68% of all Google traffic to news publishers.
The update targets three things: boosting locally relevant c…
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Chartbeat
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Chartbeat analysis of roughly 2,000 global news publishers; baseline for comparison with 68% in late 2025
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Google Discover: 37% share of google traffic to news publishers. Source: Chartbeat (2023). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/discover-share-growth-2023-2025
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/discover-share-growth-2023-2025" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>37%</strong> -- share of google traffic to news publishers for Google Discover<br><small>Source: Chartbeat (2023) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/discover-share-growth-2023-2025" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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