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AI Search Statistics and Data
Every AI search stat we publish. Data from our own audit of hundreds of UK SME websites plus curated third-party research. Prefer a single overview? Read the 2026 statistics pillar.
Our audit data
- 53% of UK SME Websites Don't Tell AI What They Do
- 23% of UK Business Websites Block AI Crawlers
- 73% of UK Websites Block AI Crawlers - Impact Analysis
- 44% of UK Businesses Have No Organisation Schema
- 87% of UK SME Homepages Have 2+ AI Confusion Signals
- 52% Have FAQ Content But No FAQ Schema
- Only 4% of UK Businesses Use Person Schema
- Schema Markup Adoption in UK SMEs
Industry data
- AI Search Market Share 2026 - Monthly Tracker
- YouTube Has a 0.737 Correlation With AI Mentions
- Brand Mentions Correlate 3x More Than Backlinks
- AI-Sourced Visitors Convert at 27% vs 2.1%
- 76% of Cited Pages Were Updated Within 30 Days
- Only 7.2% of Domains Get Cited in Both LLMs and AI Overviews
- Speakable Schema Used by Fewer Than 10% of Websites
- 93.67% of AI Overview Citations Come From Top 10 Organic
- 71% of Tracked Affiliate Sites Hit by March 2026 Update
- AI Overviews Now Appear on 48% of All Search Queries
- ChatGPT Accounts for 87.4% of All AI Referral Traffic
- Perplexity Has the Best Crawl-to-Referral Ratio