B
Evidence Grade B
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60%
60% -- mobile share of searches for online searches (2016)
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60%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2016
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Evidence Quality
B
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Extraction
50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Hitwise
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Tier C
https://www.seonorthsydney.com.au/googles-mobile-first-index-explained/ ↗
Source Article
Google's Mobile-First Index Explained
It won’t come as a surprise to anyone to learn that the vast majority of people searching on Google, do so on their mobile phones. However, this wasn’t always the case.
Flashback to November 9, 2016, and Google announced that it was going to be prioritising a mobile-first search index over the tradi…
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Hitwise report cited by the article as the evidence behind Google's mobile-first indexing decision; report year not stated in the article but contextually tied to Google's November 9, 2016 mobile-first indexing announcement.
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Trend Over Time
| Period | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 (current) | 60% | |
| 2024 | 57% | -5.0% |
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online searches: 60% mobile share of searches. Source: Hitwise (2016). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/mobile-share-of-online-searches
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/mobile-share-of-online-searches" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>60%</strong> -- mobile share of searches for online searches<br><small>Source: Hitwise (2016) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/mobile-share-of-online-searches" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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