Report
Cited, but not ranking
The share of AI Overview citations that go to domains outside the ten results.
Measured 2026-W36 · 2026-08-31 · google.com, gl=us
2026-W36
The gap
Citations off page one
38.8%
of all citations
Sources per overview
4.5
average
Queries with an overview
50.8%
4,185 measured
Ranking on page one and being credited in the answer above it are not the same achievement, and optimising for the first does not reliably deliver the second. This is the number that says so.
Widest
Queries with the widest gap
| Query | Cited off page one | Total citations |
|---|---|---|
| Bright Data SERP API alternatives | 5 | 6 |
| how to use stdio transport | 5 | 6 |
| MCP server vs MCP registry | 5 | 6 |
| OpenAI API tutorial | 5 | 6 |
| Typesense tutorial | 5 | 6 |
| Redis Vector vs Elasticsearch | 5 | 6 |
| Cloudflare Workers alternatives | 5 | 6 |
| what is requests | 5 | 6 |
| sitemap explained | 5 | 6 |
| ScaleSERP review | 4 | 6 |
| Crawlee tutorial | 4 | 6 |
| Oxylabs vs Smartproxy | 4 | 5 |
| OpenAI Agents SDK example | 4 | 5 |
| how to use Pydantic AI | 4 | 6 |
| Claude Desktop MCP example | 4 | 5 |
| streamable HTTP transport api | 4 | 6 |
| how to use OpenAI API | 4 | 6 |
| Bedrock api | 4 | 6 |
| Ollama tutorial | 4 | 5 |
| vLLM rate limits | 4 | 6 |
| Claude API vs Mistral API | 4 | 5 |
| Milvus review | 4 | 6 |
| Redis Vector best practices | 4 | 6 |
| OpenSearch rate limits | 4 | 6 |
| Ahrefs tutorial | 4 | 6 |
| how to use Majestic | 4 | 6 |
| Majestic python | 4 | 6 |
| Nightwatch best practices | 4 | 6 |
| how does rank tracking work | 4 | 6 |
| SERP snapshot api | 4 | 5 |
Method
The measurement behind it
A fixed corpus of 4,185 queries, run once a week from the United States through one endpoint, stored and never re-fetched. 82,620 observations across 12 weeks so far. The method is written out in full on how we measure.
curl --request GET \
--url 'https://serpens.p.rapidapi.com/api/v1/search_ai_overview?q=best%20search%20apis&gl=us&hl=en&format=json' \
--header 'x-rapidapi-host: serpens.p.rapidapi.com' \
--header 'x-rapidapi-key: YOUR_KEY'Reproduce any figure here
Free tier, no card. Same endpoint, same parameters — the corpus is the only thing you would need to supply.