{"id":6374,"date":"2025-06-19T12:48:05","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T12:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wellows.com\/?p=6374"},"modified":"2026-07-28T07:40:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T07:40:54","slug":"statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wellows.com\/blog\/statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"Generative Engine Optimization Statistics (2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Generative engine optimization statistics measure how people use AI search, which sources AI engines cite, and what that does to clicks. This page collects the current figures, each one traced to the organisation that originally published it rather than to a secondary aggregator. Every statistic carries its source and collection date so you can check whether it still holds.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Last verified: 28 July 2026.<\/strong> This page is reviewed monthly. Figures older than twelve months are labelled as such.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wsc-block wsc-answer\" role=\"note\"><span class=\"wsc-label wsc-label--blue\"><span style=\"display:inline-flex;align-items:center;margin-right:.3rem;\"><svg width=\"12\" height=\"12\" viewbox=\"0 0 16 16\" fill=\"#fff\"><path d=\"M8 1a7 7 0 100 14A7 7 0 008 1zm.75 10.5h-1.5v-5h1.5v5zm0-6.5h-1.5V3.5h1.5V5z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/span>Quick Answer<\/span><p>As of July 2026, ChatGPT reports 900 million weekly active users and the Gemini app 950 million monthly active users, while 68.01% of US Google searches end without a click (SparkToro, Jan\u2013Apr 2026). Earned media supplies 84% of the links AI engines cite, and paid content supplies 0.3% (Muck Rack, May 2026).<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"wsc-block wsc-takeaways\" role=\"note\"><span class=\"wsc-label wsc-label--blue\"><span style=\"display:inline-flex;align-items:center;margin-right:.3rem;\"><svg width=\"12\" height=\"12\" viewbox=\"0 0 16 16\" fill=\"#fff\"><path d=\"M3 4h10v1.5H3zm0 3h10v1.5H3zm0 3h7v1.5H3z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/span>Key generative engine optimization statistics for 2026<\/span><ul><li>68.01% of US Google searches ended without a click between January and April 2026, up from 60.45% in 2024. (SparkToro \/ Similarweb clickstream panel, June 2026)<\/li><li>Earned media accounts for 84% of all links cited by AI engines. Paid and advertorial content accounts for 0.3%. (Muck Rack, \u201cWhat Is AI Reading?\u201d, May 2026, 25M+ links)<\/li><li>Brand web mentions correlate roughly three times more strongly with AI Overview visibility than backlinks do, across 75,000 brands studied. (Ahrefs, 2025)<\/li><li>AI Overviews now appear on more than 20% of Google searches, and click-through rates fall by close to 60% when they do. (SparkToro, June 2026)<\/li><li>Google AI Mode has passed 1 billion monthly active users. (Alphabet Q2 2026 earnings, 22 July 2026)<\/li><li>ChatGPT reached 900 million weekly active users in February 2026, up from 400 million a year earlier. (OpenAI)<\/li><li>Adding statistics to a page raised its visibility in generative engine responses by roughly 31% over an unoptimised baseline in controlled testing. (Aggarwal et al., KDD 2024)<\/li><li>Distributing the same content through third-party publications produced a 239% median lift in AI search visibility, reaching 325% in the strongest cases. (Stacker \/ Scrunch controlled study)<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n<div class=\"wsc-block wsc-definition\" role=\"note\"><span class=\"wsc-label wsc-label--light\">Definition<\/span><p class=\"wsc-definition__term\">How to read this page<\/p><p class=\"wsc-definition__body\">Each statistic is written as a single extractable line: the figure, the claim, then the source and date in brackets. Where two credible studies disagree, both are shown with their methodology rather than averaged into one number. Figures sourced only to secondary blogs or AI-generated summaries have been removed from this page.<\/p><\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2>AI search adoption statistics<\/h2>\n<p>Adoption is the base rate underneath every other number here. If you want the definitions before the data, start with our guide to <a href=\"https:\/\/wellows.com\/blog\/what-is-generative-engine-optimization\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">generative engine optimization<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>How many people use AI search engines<\/h3>\n<div class=\"wsc-block wsc-stat\" role=\"note\" aria-label=\"Statistic: 900M ChatGPT weekly active users\"><span class=\"wsc-stat__number\">900M<\/span><div><p class=\"wsc-stat__label\">ChatGPT weekly active users<\/p><p class=\"wsc-stat__body\">OpenAI announced 900 million weekly active users in February 2026, more than double the 400 million reported in February 2025. Separately, Sensor Tower data reported by Reuters put the ChatGPT app past 1 billion monthly active users in June 2026.<\/p><small class=\"wsc-stat__source\">Source: OpenAI, February 2026<\/small><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"wsc-block wsc-stat\" role=\"note\" aria-label=\"Statistic: 950M Gemini app monthly active users\"><span class=\"wsc-stat__number\">950M<\/span><div><p class=\"wsc-stat__label\">Gemini app monthly active users<\/p><p class=\"wsc-stat__body\">Google reported 950 million monthly active users for the Gemini app, with daily active users tripling over the previous year. The app was at 750 million in Q4 2025 and roughly 400 million in mid-2025.<\/p><small class=\"wsc-stat__source\">Source: Alphabet Q2 2026 earnings, 22 July 2026<\/small><\/div><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1 billion+<\/strong> \u2014 monthly active users of Google AI Mode, which Google says is now sending billions of clicks to websites each week. (Alphabet Q2 2026 earnings, July 2026)<\/li>\n<li><strong>2 billion+<\/strong> \u2014 monthly reach of Gemini-powered AI Overviews inside Google Search. (Google, 2026)<\/li>\n<li><strong>22 billion<\/strong> \u2014 API tokens per minute processed by Gemini models. (Alphabet Q2 2026 earnings, July 2026)<\/li>\n<li><strong>77%<\/strong> \u2014 share of US ChatGPT users who treat it as a search engine. (Adobe, July 2025 \u2014 over twelve months old, treat as directional)<\/li>\n<li><strong>80%<\/strong> \u2014 share of consumers relying on AI-generated summaries for at least 40% of their searches. (Bain &amp; Company, February 2025 \u2014 over twelve months old, treat as directional)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>How often AI Overviews appear in search results<\/h3>\n<div class=\"wsc-block wsc-stat\" role=\"note\" aria-label=\"Statistic: 20%+ Share of Google searches that return an AI Overview\"><span class=\"wsc-stat__number\">20%+<\/span><div><p class=\"wsc-stat__label\">Share of Google searches that return an AI Overview<\/p><p class=\"wsc-stat__body\">AI Overviews appear on more than one in five US Google searches. When one is present, click-through rate to traditional results drops by close to 60%.<\/p><small class=\"wsc-stat__source\">Source: SparkToro \/ Similarweb, January\u2013April 2026<\/small><\/div><\/div>\n<p>AI Mode is a much smaller surface today but growing fast. SparkToro found that only <strong>0.34%<\/strong> of searches transitioned into AI Mode during its January\u2013April 2026 study window, while Google said at I\/O 2026 that AI Mode query volume was more than doubling each quarter.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2>AI citation statistics<\/h2>\n<p>Citation data answers the question that matters most for generative engine optimization: when an AI engine builds an answer, whose pages does it pull from? Our own breakdown of source selection sits in the <a href=\"https:\/\/wellows.com\/insights\/chatgpt-citations-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ChatGPT citations report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Which sources AI engines cite most often<\/h3>\n<p>Muck Rack\u2019s <em>What Is AI Reading?<\/em> study is the largest public dataset on this question. The May 2026 edition analysed more than 25 million links from ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini responses across 17 industries.<\/p>\n<div class=\"table-responsive text-center\">\n<table class=\"table table-sm table-striped table-bordered small\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Source category<\/th>\n<th>Share of AI citations<\/th>\n<th>Stability across three study editions<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Earned media (editorial, journalism, academic, government)<\/td>\n<td>84%<\/td>\n<td>82\u201389% since July 2025<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Journalism specifically<\/td>\n<td>27%<\/td>\n<td>25\u201327% since July 2025<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Paid and advertorial content<\/td>\n<td>0.3%<\/td>\n<td>Negligible in every edition<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>84%<\/strong> \u2014 share of AI citations coming from earned media. (Muck Rack, May 2026)<\/li>\n<li><strong>0.3%<\/strong> \u2014 share coming from paid or advertorial placements. (Muck Rack, May 2026)<\/li>\n<li><strong>27%<\/strong> \u2014 share coming from professional journalism, stable across all three editions of the study. (Muck Rack, May 2026)<\/li>\n<li><strong>3.5\u00d7<\/strong> \u2014 how much more often press releases appear in industry-trend answers than in \u201cbest of\u201d list answers. (Muck Rack, May 2026)<\/li>\n<li><strong>25 million+<\/strong> \u2014 links analysed in the May 2026 edition, across ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini in 17 industries. (Muck Rack, May 2026)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"highlighter-box p-3 mb-4 w-100\" style=\"background: #FFF9E6 !important; border-color: #FFA500\"><br>\nThe practical read: content you publish on your own domain is competing for a minority share of citations. The category that wins is coverage you earn somewhere else.<br>\n<\/div>\n<h3>How brand mentions compare to backlinks as a citation signal<\/h3>\n<div class=\"wsc-block wsc-stat\" role=\"note\" aria-label=\"Statistic: 3\u00d7 How much more strongly brand mentions correlate with AI Overview visibility than backlinks\"><span class=\"wsc-stat__number\">3\u00d7<\/span><div><p class=\"wsc-stat__label\">How much more strongly brand mentions correlate with AI Overview visibility than backlinks<\/p><p class=\"wsc-stat__body\">Ahrefs found that unlinked brand web mentions were a substantially stronger correlate of AI Overview visibility than backlink counts. Correlation is not causation, but the gap between the two signals is large enough to change where link-building budget goes.<\/p><small class=\"wsc-stat__source\">Source: Ahrefs, study of 75,000 brands<\/small><\/div><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>239%<\/strong> \u2014 median lift in AI search visibility when the same content was distributed through third-party news outlets, across five leading LLMs. (Stacker \/ Scrunch controlled study)<\/li>\n<li><strong>325%<\/strong> \u2014 the upper end of that lift in the strongest cases. (Stacker \/ Scrunch)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<h2>Zero-click and click-through rate statistics<\/h2>\n<p>This is the number most often misquoted, so it is worth stating once, precisely, with its method attached.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wsc-block wsc-stat\" role=\"note\" aria-label=\"Statistic: 68.01% Share of US Google searches that ended without a click, January\u2013April 2026\"><span class=\"wsc-stat__number\">68.01%<\/span><div><p class=\"wsc-stat__label\">Share of US Google searches that ended without a click, January\u2013April 2026<\/p><p class=\"wsc-stat__body\">SparkToro\u2019s 2026 study measured US Google searches from January through April 2026, assuming two-thirds mobile and one-third desktop, and excluding searches made inside Google\u2019s mobile search app, where zero-click behaviour may be higher still. The figure counts any search that produced no click at all, including clicks to Google-owned properties such as Maps and YouTube.<\/p><small class=\"wsc-stat__source\">Source: SparkToro, using Similarweb desktop and mobile web panel data<\/small><\/div><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>68.01%<\/strong> \u2014 US Google searches ending without a click, January\u2013April 2026. (SparkToro, June 2026)<\/li>\n<li><strong>+7.56 points<\/strong> \u2014 increase in the zero-click rate since 2024. (SparkToro, June 2026)<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u22129.51 points<\/strong> \u2014 fall in the share of searches producing at least one click between 2024 and 2026, a 22.9% relative decline. (SparkToro, June 2026)<\/li>\n<li><strong>+7.2 points<\/strong> \u2014 increase in searches that led to another Google search rather than an outbound click. (SparkToro, June 2026)<\/li>\n<li><strong>8% vs 15%<\/strong> \u2014 how often users clicked a traditional result with an AI Overview present versus without one. (Pew Research Center, 2025)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Why zero-click figures differ between studies<\/h3>\n<p>Different studies measure different things, which is why the published range runs from the high fifties to the high sixties. The comparison below is the honest version.<\/p>\n<div class=\"table-responsive text-center\">\n<table class=\"table table-sm table-striped table-bordered small\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Study and year<\/th>\n<th>Zero-click rate<\/th>\n<th>Data source<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>SparkToro, Jan\u2013Apr 2026 (US)<\/td>\n<td>68.01%<\/td>\n<td>Similarweb desktop and mobile panel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>SparkToro, 2024 (US)<\/td>\n<td>58.5%<\/td>\n<td>Datos clickstream panel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>SparkToro, 2024 (EU)<\/td>\n<td>59.7%<\/td>\n<td>Datos clickstream panel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>SparkToro, 2020<\/td>\n<td>64.82%<\/td>\n<td>Similarweb<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>SparkToro, 2019<\/td>\n<td>49\u201350.33%<\/td>\n<td>Jumpshot (now defunct)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>SparkToro is explicit that these are not directly comparable across years because the underlying panels and providers changed. The direction is consistent; the absolute figures are not interchangeable. If a page quotes \u201c60% zero-click\u201d without naming a panel and a year, it is quoting a number that has moved.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2>Generative engine optimization effectiveness statistics<\/h2>\n<p>The most rigorous public test of which GEO tactics actually work is still <em>GEO: Generative Engine Optimization<\/em> by Aggarwal et al., presented at KDD 2024 by researchers from Princeton University, Georgia Tech, the Allen Institute for AI, and IIT Delhi. It tested nine optimisation methods across thousands of content samples and scored the results using position-adjusted word counts plus subjective impression scores.<\/p>\n<div class=\"score-boxes\">\n<div class=\"score-box\" style=\"background-color:#B3DEFF\"><div class=\"score-value\">Visibility score: 27.2<\/div><div class=\"score-label\">Quotation addition<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"score-box\" style=\"background-color:#D6EBFF\"><div class=\"score-value\">Visibility score: 25.4<\/div><div class=\"score-label\">Statistics addition<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"score-box\" style=\"background-color:#EEF5FF\"><div class=\"score-value\">Visibility score: 25.0<\/div><div class=\"score-label\">Cite sources<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"table-responsive text-center\">\n<table class=\"table table-sm table-striped table-bordered small\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Method<\/th>\n<th>Overall score<\/th>\n<th>Subjective average<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>No optimization (baseline)<\/td>\n<td>19.3<\/td>\n<td>19.3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Keyword stuffing<\/td>\n<td>17.7<\/td>\n<td>20.2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Unique words<\/td>\n<td>20.5<\/td>\n<td>20.4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Easy-to-understand<\/td>\n<td>22.0<\/td>\n<td>20.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Authoritative<\/td>\n<td>22.3<\/td>\n<td>22.9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Technical terms<\/td>\n<td>22.7<\/td>\n<td>21.4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Fluency optimization<\/td>\n<td>24.7<\/td>\n<td>23.4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Cite sources<\/td>\n<td>25.0<\/td>\n<td>23.1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Statistics addition<\/td>\n<td>25.4<\/td>\n<td>23.7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Quotation addition<\/td>\n<td>27.2<\/td>\n<td>23.8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>27.2<\/strong> \u2014 highest-scoring method tested: adding relevant quotations, a 41% improvement on the unoptimised baseline of 19.3. (Aggarwal et al., KDD 2024)<\/li>\n<li><strong>25.4<\/strong> \u2014 score for adding statistics, roughly 31% above baseline. (Aggarwal et al., KDD 2024)<\/li>\n<li><strong>17.7<\/strong> \u2014 score for keyword stuffing, the only method that performed <em>worse<\/em> than doing nothing. (Aggarwal et al., KDD 2024)<\/li>\n<li><strong>19.3<\/strong> \u2014 baseline score for content with no optimisation applied. (Aggarwal et al., KDD 2024)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"highlighter-warning-box\"><h4 class=\"highlighter-warning-header\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\">\u26a0\ufe0f<\/span> Why this matters<\/h4><p>\nThree of the four highest-scoring methods are about attribution: quoting sources, citing sources, and adding statistics. The tactic that mimics traditional SEO most closely, keyword stuffing, was the only one to score below baseline.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2>AI search traffic and market statistics<\/h2>\n<p>Traffic from AI engines is still small relative to organic search, but the composition of what remains is changing. If you are choosing a way to measure it, our comparison of <a href=\"https:\/\/wellows.com\/blog\/ai-visibility-tools\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AI visibility tools<\/a> covers the current options.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Billions of clicks per week<\/strong> \u2014 what Google states its AI features in Search send to websites. (Google, July 2026)<\/li>\n<li><strong>24%<\/strong> \u2014 Alphabet\u2019s year-over-year revenue growth in Q2 2026, with Search and Other revenue up 17%. (Alphabet Q2 2026 earnings, July 2026)<\/li>\n<li><strong>27.4%<\/strong> \u2014 Gemini\u2019s share of global AI chatbot web traffic as of mid-2026, up from single digits in early 2025. (Similarweb)<\/li>\n<li><strong>3\u00d7<\/strong> \u2014 growth in Gemini app daily active users over the twelve months to July 2026. (Alphabet Q2 2026 earnings)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<h2>How to use these generative engine optimization statistics<\/h2>\n<p>The pattern across every dataset on this page is consistent: AI engines reward attribution and third-party validation, and they resolve more queries without sending a click. If you are still building the internal case for the shift, the <a href=\"https:\/\/wellows.com\/blog\/benefits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">benefits of generative engine optimization<\/a> covers what it delivers beyond citation counts. Five things follow from the data above.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wsc-block wsc-checklist\" role=\"note\"><span class=\"wsc-label wsc-label--blue\"><span style=\"display:inline-flex;align-items:center;margin-right:.3rem;\"><svg width=\"12\" height=\"12\" viewbox=\"0 0 16 16\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"#fff\" stroke-width=\"1.5\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\"><rect x=\"2\" y=\"2\" width=\"12\" height=\"12\" rx=\"2\"><\/rect><polyline points=\"5,8 7,10 11,6\"><\/polyline><\/svg><\/span>What the data supports doing<\/span><ul><li><span class=\"wsc-checklist__box\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i class=\"fa-solid fa-check\"><\/i><\/span><span>Track citations, not just rankings. If 68% of searches end without a click, click-based reporting is measuring a shrinking slice of your visibility.<\/span><\/li><li><span class=\"wsc-checklist__box\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i class=\"fa-solid fa-check\"><\/i><\/span><span>Shift budget toward earned coverage. Earned media supplies 84% of AI citations; paid placement supplies 0.3%.<\/span><\/li><li><span class=\"wsc-checklist__box\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i class=\"fa-solid fa-check\"><\/i><\/span><span>Add sourced statistics and direct quotations to pages you want cited. These were the two highest-scoring tactics in the KDD 2024 testing.<\/span><\/li><li><span class=\"wsc-checklist__box\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i class=\"fa-solid fa-check\"><\/i><\/span><span>Treat unlinked brand mentions as a ranking asset, not a vanity metric. They correlated three times more strongly with AI Overview visibility than backlinks.<\/span><\/li><li><span class=\"wsc-checklist__box\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><i class=\"fa-solid fa-check\"><\/i><\/span><span>Re-verify any statistic older than twelve months before you publish it. Panels change, and so do the numbers.<\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/div><script>(function(){document.querySelectorAll(\".wsc-checklist li\").forEach(function(li){li.addEventListener(\"click\",function(){li.classList.toggle(\"wsc-checked\");});});})();<\/script>\n<p>Working through these in order is the fastest way to act on them. The <a href=\"https:\/\/wellows.com\/blog\/generative-engine-optimization-checklist-brand-visibility\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">generative engine optimization checklist<\/a> expands the five items above into a full action plan.<\/p>\n<p>Wellows tracks brand citations and visibility across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, and Google AI Mode. See <a href=\"https:\/\/wellows.com\/features\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">what the platform measures<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-cta-box text-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wellows.com\/pricing\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"btn btn-sc\" style=\"background: #0554F2;color: #fff;\">Start Your 7-Day Trial<\/a><\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2>Methodology and sources<\/h2>\n<p>Every figure on this page was traced to the organisation that originally published it. Statistics previously sourced to secondary marketing blogs, or to pages that were themselves generated by AI assistants, have been removed rather than re-cited.<\/p>\n<div class=\"table-responsive text-center\">\n<table class=\"table table-sm table-striped table-bordered small\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Source<\/th>\n<th>What it covers<\/th>\n<th>Collection period<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/sparktoro.com\/blog\/in-2026-less-than-one-third-of-google-searches-still-send-a-click\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">SparkToro<\/a><\/td>\n<td>Zero-click rate, AI Overview frequency, AI Mode share<\/td>\n<td>January\u2013April 2026<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/muckrack.com\/blog\/what-is-ai-reading-may-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Muck Rack, \u201cWhat Is AI Reading?\u201d<\/a><\/td>\n<td>Composition of AI citations across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini<\/td>\n<td>May 2026 edition, 25M+ links<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2311.09735\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Aggarwal et al., \u201cGEO: Generative Engine Optimization\u201d, KDD 2024<\/a><\/td>\n<td>Controlled testing of nine GEO methods<\/td>\n<td>Published 2024<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Alphabet Q2 2026 earnings and Google I\/O 2026<\/td>\n<td>Gemini, AI Mode, and AI Overviews usage<\/td>\n<td>May and July 2026<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>OpenAI announcements<\/td>\n<td>ChatGPT weekly and monthly active users<\/td>\n<td>February\u2013June 2026<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Pew Research Center<\/td>\n<td>Click behaviour with and without AI Overviews<\/td>\n<td>2025<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Ahrefs<\/td>\n<td>Brand mentions versus backlinks as AI visibility signals<\/td>\n<td>2025, 75,000 brands<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Bain &amp; Company; Adobe<\/td>\n<td>Consumer reliance on AI summaries<\/td>\n<td>February and July 2025<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2>Frequently asked questions about generative engine optimization statistics<\/h2>\n<div class=\"accordion accordion-shortcode w-100 id=\" faqaccordion>\n        <br>\n<div class=\"accordion-item mb-3\">\n            <div class=\"accordion-header\">\n                <button class=\"accordion-button collapsed\" type=\"button\" data-bs-toggle=\"collapse\" data-bs-target=\"#faq1\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"faq1\">\n                    What percentage of searches end without a click in 2026?\n                <\/button>\n            <\/div>\n            <div id=\"faq1\" class=\"accordion-collapse collapse\" data-bs-parent=\"#faqAccordion\">\n                <div class=\"accordion-body\">\n                    68.01% of US Google searches ended without a click between January and April 2026, according to SparkToro\u2019s analysis of Similarweb desktop and mobile panel data. That is up from 60.45% in 2024 on the same measure. Older figures in the 58\u201360% range come from a different clickstream provider and are not directly comparable.\n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div><br>\n<div class=\"accordion-item mb-3\">\n            <div class=\"accordion-header\">\n                <button class=\"accordion-button collapsed\" type=\"button\" data-bs-toggle=\"collapse\" data-bs-target=\"#faq2\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"faq2\">\n                    Where do AI engines get the sources they cite?\n                <\/button>\n            <\/div>\n            <div id=\"faq2\" class=\"accordion-collapse collapse\" data-bs-parent=\"#faqAccordion\">\n                <div class=\"accordion-body\">\n                    Earned media supplies 84% of the links cited by ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, with professional journalism alone accounting for 27%. Paid and advertorial content accounts for 0.3%. These figures come from Muck Rack\u2019s May 2026 analysis of more than 25 million cited links across 17 industries.\n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div><br>\n<div class=\"accordion-item mb-3\">\n            <div class=\"accordion-header\">\n                <button class=\"accordion-button collapsed\" type=\"button\" data-bs-toggle=\"collapse\" data-bs-target=\"#faq3\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"faq3\">\n                    Which GEO tactics actually increase visibility in AI answers?\n                <\/button>\n            <\/div>\n            <div id=\"faq3\" class=\"accordion-collapse collapse\" data-bs-parent=\"#faqAccordion\">\n                <div class=\"accordion-body\">\n                    In the KDD 2024 controlled study by Aggarwal et al., adding quotations scored highest at 27.2 against an unoptimised baseline of 19.3, followed by adding statistics at 25.4 and citing sources at 25.0. Keyword stuffing scored 17.7, below the baseline.\n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div><br>\n<div class=\"accordion-item mb-3\">\n            <div class=\"accordion-header\">\n                <button class=\"accordion-button collapsed\" type=\"button\" data-bs-toggle=\"collapse\" data-bs-target=\"#faq4\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"faq4\">\n                    How many people use AI search engines?\n                <\/button>\n            <\/div>\n            <div id=\"faq4\" class=\"accordion-collapse collapse\" data-bs-parent=\"#faqAccordion\">\n                <div class=\"accordion-body\">\n                    ChatGPT reported 900 million weekly active users in February 2026. Google reported 950 million monthly active users for the Gemini app and more than 1 billion monthly active users for AI Mode in its Q2 2026 earnings, published in July 2026.\n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div><br>\n<div class=\"accordion-item mb-3\">\n            <div class=\"accordion-header\">\n                <button class=\"accordion-button collapsed\" type=\"button\" data-bs-toggle=\"collapse\" data-bs-target=\"#faq5\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"faq5\">\n                    How often is this page updated?\n                <\/button>\n            <\/div>\n            <div id=\"faq5\" class=\"accordion-collapse collapse\" data-bs-parent=\"#faqAccordion\">\n                <div class=\"accordion-body\">\n                    Monthly. The last verification date is shown directly under the heading. 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