B
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8%
8% -- click through rate lift for Google featured snippets (2025)
Backlinko's 2025 study of 11.8 million Google search results found that pages with featured snippets received an average of 8% more clicks than pages without.
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Value
8%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2025
Entity
Sample Size
11,800,000
Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Backlinko
Primary
Tier C
https://www.bestseo.sg/blog/aeo-content-framework/ ↗
Source Article
The AEO Content Framework: Writing for Featured Snippets and Beyond
Original Research
Backlinko
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Methodology
Study of 11.8M Google search results; cited secondhand in an SEO agency blog post
Methodology documented
Segmentation
Industrymarketing
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Google featured snippets: 8% click through rate lift. Source: Backlinko (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/featured-snippets-click-lift-2025
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/featured-snippets-click-lift-2025" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>8%</strong> -- click through rate lift for Google featured snippets<br><small>Source: Backlinko (2025) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/featured-snippets-click-lift-2025" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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