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what is position tracking

Measured weekly since 2026-W25. 12 observations.

Measured 2026-W36 · 2026-08-31 · google.com, gl=us

2026-W36

This week

AI Overview
Showing
in 12 of 12 weeks
Sources cited
4
1 of them not in the top 10
Organic results
10
returned on page one
Weekly churn
13%
of the top 10 changes each week
AI Overview, week by week
2026-W252026-W36
How much the top 10 moved

Google is answering this query itself, and 1 of the 4 sources it credits do not appear in the ten results below.

Citations

What the AI Overview cites

DomainStatusOrganic position
pypi.orgCited and ranking2
towardsdatascience.comCited and ranking4
npmjs.comCited, not ranking
linkedin.comCited and ranking6

A domain marked Cited, not ranking is credited in Google's answer while sitting outside the ten organic results. Across the whole corpus that is true of 38.8% of citations.

Page one

Organic results

#DomainTitleIn the overviewSitelinks
1freecodecamp.orgA practical guide to what is position trackingNot cited
2pypi.orgWhat is position tracking in 2026Cited2
3youtube.comWhat is position tracking | youtube docsNot cited3
4towardsdatascience.comtowardsdatascience: what is position trackingCited
5digitalocean.comWhat is position tracking | digitalocean docsNot cited
6linkedin.comWhat is position tracking | linkedin docsCited
7reddit.comA practical guide to what is position trackingNot cited
8widepost.devWhat is position tracking in 2026Not cited
9github.comWhat is position tracking in 2026Not cited
10substack.comsubstack: what is position trackingNot cited
Since 2026-W29

Position history

DomainW29W30W31W32W33W34W35W36
freecodecamp.org11111111
pypi.org22222222
towardsdatascience.com33433334
youtube.com44344443
digitalocean.com55655555
linkedin.com66566666

A dot means the domain was not on page one that week. This is the part no live SERP checker can show you: it needs someone to have been measuring before you asked.

Blocks

Features on this page

AI Overview People Also Ask Related searches Knowledge panel Sitelinks

Filled means Google rendered the block for this query this week. AI Overview, People Also Ask, Related searches, Knowledge panel, Sitelinks — each has its own prevalence across all 4,185 queries.

API

Reproduce this page

Every figure above comes from one call. This is that call — the same endpoint, the same parameters, run once a week.

curl --request GET \
  --url 'https://serpens.p.rapidapi.com/api/v1/search_ai_overview?q=what%20is%20position%20tracking&gl=us&hl=en&format=json' \
  --header 'x-rapidapi-host: serpens.p.rapidapi.com' \
  --header 'x-rapidapi-key: YOUR_KEY'

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