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11% -- click fraud rate for Google Ads (2025)
Approximately 11% of Google Ads clicks are fraudulent.
- Estimated benchmark cited from Opticks
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11%
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Data Vintage
2025
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B
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Extraction
50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
60
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
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Opticks
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Google Ads: 11% click fraud rate. Source: Opticks (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/google-ads-click-fraud-rate
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/google-ads-click-fraud-rate" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>11%</strong> -- click fraud rate for Google Ads<br><small>Source: Opticks (2025) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/google-ads-click-fraud-rate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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