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8% -- click rate on traditional results for Google Search (US) (2025)

2025  · n=68,879  · Pew Research Center

In the US, users clicked a traditional search result 8% of the time when a Google AI summary/Overview was present, based on a Pew Research Center tracking study.

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8%
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Data Vintage
2025
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Google Search (US)
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68,879
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Confidence: 57/100 Vintage: 2025 Channel: Deep Crawl
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International SEO and AI Search Blog | Alizée Baudez
SEO and business blog Strategic thinking on international SEO, multi-market visibility, and what it takes to actually win in a new market. For in-house teams and brand managers doing this for real. AI Overviews launched in France. Here's what the markets that went first already know. Roughly 40% of …
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Pew Research Center tracked 900 people across nearly 69,000 searches

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Google Search (US): 8% click rate on traditional results. Source: Pew Research Center (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/pew-us-traditional-result-click-8-vs-15
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