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Measured on sites we built. The largest property's page export totals 2,079,623 Google search impressions in the 28 days to 9 September 2026, and every figure carries its method, window and sample size.

Eleven findings, each with its method and sample size

01

Three clusters that rarely got a click

Three query clusters drew 1,366,114 impressions and 2,374 clicks over 28 days, a click-through rate of 0.17 percent.

0.17% click rate 1.4M impressions
02

Most-shown pages, lower combined click rate

Ranked by impressions alone, this site's top 10 pages drew 80.7 percent of them at 0.189 percent combined click-through; the other 372 pages, 1.615 percent.

81% of impressions 10 of 382 pages
03

Ad revenue spread, ad slots held constant

Revenue per thousand page views spanned 23x across one site's pages. The worst page carried no ad slots; at constant slot count the spread is 4.6x.

4.6x revenue spread 20 pages
04

Ad serving in one market

Ad impressions per page view ran at 0.072 for the United States on one property, against 0.97 for India. What causes the gap is not established.

0.072 ads per page view 11,638 US views
05

AI assistants as a share of traffic

AI assistants sent 29 of 2,728 blog sessions in 26 days, about 1.1 percent. That counts visits from assistants, not citations by them.

1.1% AI share of blog visits 2,728 sessions
06

Impressions from translated results

Search Console's search-appearance breakdown showed 184,133 impressions from translated results in 28 days, at 0.14 percent click-through; no share is claimed.

0.14% click rate 184,133 impressions
07

Schema kept after Google dropped it

FAQPage markup shipped on a lead generation site for AI assistants; 27 of its 153 sessions in 11 weeks came from one. Its contact actions are not reported.

18% AI share of visits 27 of 153 sessions
08

Different click rates within one band

Of pages averaging position 5 to 10, the ten most-shown had 0.189 percent combined click-through; the other 170, 1.843 percent. Position is not held constant.

9.8x click-rate ratio 180 URLs
09

Biggest page, not the best page

A calculator with 8,521 impressions drew 783 clicks, more than the largest page drew from 466,151. Top ten by impressions and by clicks share three URLs.

55x fewer impressions 2 pages
10

Long tail advantage, and its limits

On one cluster, queries under 100 impressions had 2.27x the combined click-through of those with 1,000 or more. Inside average-position bands: 1.57x, 1.23x.

1.57x click-rate ratio 802 queries
11

Four days, a quarter of the impressions

Four of 28 days carried 25 percent of 2,055,560 impressions, at a combined click-through of 0.357 percent against 0.506 percent on the other 24.

25% of impressions 4 of 28 days

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