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18.7%

18.7% -- click through rate position three for Google organic search results (2026)

Name: Click Through Rate Position Three Statistics
Creator: Lighthouse Intelligence
Published: 2026-09-22

2026 · First Page Sage

Position 3 organic search results drop to an average CTR of 18.7% on clean SERPs.

Applies specifically to clean SERPs

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Last verified: 2026-09-22 · How we verify data →

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Value

18.7%

Unit

Percentage

Data Vintage

2026

Entity

Google organic search results

Geography

Global

Evidence Quality

Strong, reliable evidence

Sourced from a well-regarded research firm or industry leader with transparent methodology and a reasonably large sample.

61/100 confidence

Single source - not yet corroborated

Score breakdown

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Source Trust

Citation Chain

Independence

Methodology

Freshness

Source

First Page Sage Primary Tier C

https://wordpattern.org/blogs/content-optimization-keys/ ↗

Confidence: 48/100 Vintage: 2026 Channel: Deep Crawl

Source Article

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Original Research

First Page Sage · Original study ↗

Methodology

First Page Sage SERP CTR data, clean SERPs

Methodology documented

Segmentation

Industryseo RegionGlobal RoleSEO Specialist Channelsearch

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Google organic search results: 18.7% click through rate position three. Source: First Page Sage (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/position3-ctr-firstpagesage-2026

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