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AI search click loss estimator
When Google shows an AI summary, people click fewer links. Pew Research Center found users clicked a traditional result in 8% of visits with an AI summary and 15% without one. Enter your monthly organic clicks and the share of your searches that show a summary to estimate the effect.
Check your main keywords in Google and count how many show an AI Overview.
- Relative click drop with a summary
- 46.7%
- Clicks kept per month
- 2,580
- Clicks lost per month
- 420
Based on Pew Research Center, July 2025: people clicked a traditional result in 8% of visits with an AI summary and 15% without one. An estimate, not a forecast for your site.
What this calculator uses
- Monthly organic clicks
- Share of your searches showing an AI summary
- Estimated clicks lost and kept
Why it matters
AI summaries change how much traffic a ranking is worth. Knowing the size of the effect helps you decide how much to invest in being cited inside the summary, not only ranked below it.
How to fix what it finds
- Find which of your searches show AI Overviews and track them separately.
- Structure pages to be quoted: direct answers, definitions and sourced facts.
- Track AI mentions as well as rankings.
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AI search click loss estimator: common questions
From a Pew Research Center study published in July 2025 that tracked real Google searches by US adults. The link is on this page.
It is an average across searches. Your loss may be higher on informational queries and lower on brand or local ones. Treat the result as an estimate.
Get cited in the summary itself. Pages with clear answers, sourced facts and strong entity signals are cited more often.
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