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42.9%
42.9% -- featured snippet click through rate for Featured snippets on Google search results pages (2026)
Featured snippets on Google search results achieve an average click-through rate of approximately 42.9%.
- Cited secondhand by Momentum Nexus from First Page Sage research; original study date/methodology details are not stated in the text.
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42.9%
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2026
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20
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30
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95
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First Page Sage
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https://momentumnexus.com/blog/keyword-difficulty-score-not-reliable/ ↗
Source Article
Keyword Difficulty Score: Why It's Not Reliable Alone - Momentum Nexus Blog
Keyword Difficulty Score: Why It's Not Reliable Alone
A client’s target list had a keyword scored KD 0 in the tool we were using. Zero. The kind of number that makes a content calendar decision easy: write it this week, rank in a month, move on.
It took three content briefs, one full rewrite, and ab…
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Cited secondhand by Momentum Nexus from First Page Sage featured snippet research; original study year not specified in the article (article context is 2026).
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Featured snippets on Google search results pages: 42.9% featured snippet click through rate. Source: First Page Sage (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/featured-snippet-ctr-42-9-first-page-sage
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