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42.9%

42.9% -- featured snippet click through rate for Google featured snippets (2026)

Name: Featured Snippet Click Through Rate Statistics
Creator: Lighthouse Intelligence
Published: 2026-10-02

2026 · First Page Sage

Featured snippets on Google achieve an average click-through rate of 42.9%.

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Last verified: 2026-10-02 · How we verify data →

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Value

42.9%

Unit

Percentage

Data Vintage

2026

Entity

Google featured snippets

Evidence Quality

Strong, reliable evidence

Sourced from a well-regarded research firm or industry leader with transparent methodology and a reasonably large sample.

61/100 confidence

Single source - not yet corroborated

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Extraction

Source Trust

Citation Chain

Independence

Methodology

Freshness

Source

First Page Sage Primary Tier B

https://www.atomicagi.com/blog/organic-ctr-optimization-a-complete-guide-for-seo-teams-in ↗

Confidence: 53/100 Vintage: 2026 Channel: Common Crawl

Source Article

Organic CTR optimization: A complete guide for SEO teams in 2026

Original Research

First Page Sage · Original study ↗

Methodology

First Page Sage data

Methodology documented

Trend Over Time

Period	Value	Change
2024	50%
2026 (current)	42.9%	-14.2%
2026 (current)	23.3%	-45.7%

Segmentation

Industrymarketing

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Google featured snippets: 42.9% featured snippet click through rate. Source: First Page Sage (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/featured-snippet-ctr-42-9

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