B
Evidence Grade B
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80%
80% -- mobile local search usage rate for mobile users (2026)
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Value
80%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
Entity
Geography
US
Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Gorilla Marketing
Primary
Tier C
https://www.velocityconsultancy.com/reasons-why-you-should-use-local-seo-techniques/ ↗
Source Article
6 Reasons Why You Should Use Local SEO Techniques 2026
The numbers don’t lie. Google confirms that as much as 76% of people who perform local searches on their mobile phones visit the business within a day. And of course, a good number out of that percentage results in sales.
What does this tell you? That local SEO fetches ROI that you cannot afford to …
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Gorilla Marketing
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Methodology
Attributed to Gorilla Marketing insights; secondary citation
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Segmentation
IndustryRetail
RegionUS
RoleAll marketers
Channelsearch
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mobile users: 80% mobile local search usage rate. Source: Gorilla Marketing (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/mobile-users-local-search-intent
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/mobile-users-local-search-intent" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>80%</strong> -- mobile local search usage rate for mobile users<br><small>Source: Gorilla Marketing (2026) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/mobile-users-local-search-intent" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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