Two Thirds of Google Searches End Without a Click
DannyB writes:
In 2020, Two Thirds of Google Searches Ended Without a Click
In August of 2019, I published research from now-defunct clickstream data provider, Jumpshot, showing that 50.33% of all Google searches ended without a click to any web property in the results. Today, thanks to new data from SimilarWeb, I've got a substantive update to that analysis.
From January to December, 2020, 64.82% of searches on Google (desktop and mobile combined) ended in the search results without clicking to another web property. That number is likely undercounting some mobile and nearly all voice searches, and thus it's probable that more than 2/3rds of all Google searches are what I've been calling "zero-click searches." Some folks have pointed out that "zero-click" is slightly misleading terminology, as a search ending with a click within the Google SERP itself (for example, clicking on the animal sounds here or clicking a phone number to dial a local business in the maps box) falls into this grouping. The terminology seems to have stuck, so instead I'm making the distinction clear.
In TFA and the links above I could not find what CTR meant. I googled for CTR, and got my answer without further needing to click through to any article. Thus only Google, and no other site got my personal information or any ad revenue for some other site's work.
TFA = The Friendly Article
CTR = Click Through Rate
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