Knowledge base v2.13.0 · Community edition · data through 2 October 2026
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Search Console reports that show impressions, pages, countries and dates for a site in Google's generative AI features, without clicks or queries.
Glossary · Generative AI performance report
Search Console reports, rolled out worldwide by 31 August 2026, that show impressions, pages, countries, devices (Search only) and dates for generative AI features, with no clicks or queries. Since 24 September 2026 they also include multimodal searches; the regular Performance report still counts AI traffic too.
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Google's guide for generative AI features recommends the Generative AI performance report in Search Console for measuring how content performs in generative AI features on Google Search and Discover.
Google Search Central · Day 1 · How Search works and where's AI?
Google's launch post for the Generative AI performance reports in Search Console (3 June 2026; rolled out to all sites worldwide by 31 August 2026) lists impressions, pages, countries, devices (Search only) and dates, and no click or query metrics.
Search Central blog (3 June 2026) · Day 1 · How Search works and where's AI?
Google's announcement of 24 September 2026 says multimodal search data appears both in the Performance report for Search results and in the generative AI performance report, can be exported, and began rolling out globally that day.
Search Central blog (24 September 2026) · Day 3 · Inside Search Console: What’s New & How to Use It
Slide and stage claims that name it, the ones Google’s documentation does not cover first.
Google said Search Console's generative AI reporting launched alongside the generative AI control, starting with impressions only, and may expand later.
Gary Illyes · Day 1 · What's new in the world of Search
Google called AI reporting in Search Console an evolving space and expects the generative AI report to get richer, with more information in the future.
Ariel Kroszynski · Day 3 · Inside Search Console: What’s New & How to Use It
The regular Search Console Performance report still shows all traffic including AI features, while the generative AI view shows only impressions from AI surfaces.
Ariel Kroszynski · Day 3 · Inside Search Console: What’s New & How to Use It
Search Console's generative AI report shows impressions broken down by pages, countries and devices.
Ariel Kroszynski · Day 3 · Inside Search Console: What’s New & How to Use It
Nik Vujic's agency puts Search Console data, LLM referral traffic from GA4 and the data from Search Console's generative AI report into one LLM prompt to compare a client's performance in classic search and in AI features.
Nik Vujic · Day 3 · Lightning session L: Understanding SERPs and your users
Nik Vujic said he hopes Search Console's generative AI report will get query data.
Nik Vujic · Day 3 · Lightning session L: Understanding SERPs and your users
Check AI Overviews and AI Mode with native-language queries in each target market, not with translated English keywords, and compare with the country breakdown of Search Console's generative AI performance report; topics where competitors are cited and you are not point to missing or weak local content.
Ibrahim Anjro · Day 2 · Focusing on Internationalisation and Localisation
No Google documentation states that fan-out queries stay out of Search Console, but the docs fit the stage statement: the Performance report counts AI Overviews and AI Mode under the user's own queries, and the Generative AI reports have no query dimension.
Ibrahim Anjro · Day 3 · Making sense of users' queries
Search Console's generative AI performance reports count impressions only, with no clicks and no query dimension (Google documents the Search report for AI Overviews and AI Mode, plus a separate Discover report), so measure visits that follow AI answers with your own analytics.
Ibrahim Anjro · Day 3 · Inside Search Console: What’s New & How to Use It
Google's own line on Day 1 was to measure success by metrics that matter to the business, and its Generative AI performance report shows impressions but no clicks; together with the community talk this argues for a report that puts organic next to direct, branded paid search, conversions and revenue.
Ibrahim Anjro · Day 3 · Lightning session L: Understanding SERPs and your users
Google's finding that AI users visit more brand websites is Google's own research; check it against your own data, such as branded and direct traffic in analytics and the Generative AI performance report in Search Console, before planning on it.
Ibrahim Anjro · Day 3 · Mastering the messy middle
Kit items about Generative AI performance report: their own words name it, or several of the claims they rest on do.
Track AI feature visibility in the Generative AI performance report
Rests on 11 claims, 7 of them naming Generative AI performance report; its own words name Generative AI performance report
Also inglossary term Generative AI performance report
Search Console's generative AI performance reports count impressions only, with no clicks and no query dimension (Google documents the Search report for AI Overviews and AI Mode, plus a separate Discover report), so measure visits that follow AI answers with your own analytics.
Search Console's generative AI performance reports count impressions only, with no clicks and no query dimension (Google documents the Search report for AI Overviews and AI Mode, plus a separate Discover report), so measure visits that follow AI answers with your own analytics.
Things named in the same claim, with the number of claims they share.