Knowledge base v2.13.0 · Community edition · data through 2 October 2026
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The Search Console report of clicks, impressions, click-through rate and position for a site's queries and pages.
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Search Console Help defines position as the position of a link on Google, where 1 is the topmost position, and says the Performance report shows the topmost position a property's link occupied, averaged across all queries.
Google Search Console Help · Day 1 · Lightning session A: Automation and 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
Google's AI features guide says traffic from sites appearing in AI features such as AI Overviews and AI Mode is included in the overall search traffic in Search Console and reported in the Performance report within the Web search type.
Google Search Central · Day 3 · Lightning session L: Understanding SERPs and your users
Slide and stage claims that name it, the ones Google’s documentation does not cover first.
A Google panelist said adding a report that is a variation of the Performance report to the Search Console API would be easier than adding crawl stats, because the Performance report is already in the API.
Drilling into a query group opens the Search Console Performance report with a regex filter that contains all the queries of the group, so each individual query can be analysed.
Ariel Kroszynski · Day 3 · Inside Search Console: What’s New & How to Use It
Users often told Google that the Search Console Performance report is complex to configure, because it can be filtered and customised in many ways, such as by query, page, country and search type.
Ariel Kroszynski · Day 3 · Inside Search Console: What’s New & How to Use It
Until the multimodal launch, the Search Console Performance report essentially showed only text-based searches.
Ariel Kroszynski · Day 3 · Inside Search Console: What’s New & How to Use It
To see multimodal traffic in the Search Console Performance report, select the multimodal search type instead of the default text-based one.
Ariel Kroszynski · Day 3 · Inside Search Console: What’s New & How to Use It
Search Console's AI-powered configuration is a chat box in which users describe the analysis they want in natural language, and the request is transformed into the Performance report's configuration.
Ariel Kroszynski · Day 3 · Inside Search Console: What’s New & How to Use It
Search Console's AI-powered configuration lists the changes it will make to the Performance report and applies them only after the user approves.
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
In a YouTube platform property, long-form and short-form videos can be compared in the Performance report's comparison mode by URL pattern, /watch versus /shorts/; Instagram posts (/p/) and reels can be compared the same way.
Ariel Kroszynski · Day 3 · Inside Search Console: What’s New & How to Use It
Google's Search Console talk at the Deep Dive covered five Search Console launches of the past year: query groups, AI-powered configuration of the Performance report, generative AI control and reporting, platform properties for social accounts, and multimodal search reporting.
Ariel Kroszynski · Day 3 · Inside Search Console: What’s New & How to Use It
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
Review the filters and regexes that Search Console's AI-powered configuration proposes before trusting the numbers: Google's launch post calls the feature experimental, warns that AI can misinterpret requests, and limits it to the Search results Performance report (not Discover or News) and to configuration, not sorting or exporting.
Ibrahim Anjro · Day 3 · Inside Search Console: What’s New & How to Use It
Google's Performance report help says the queries dimension is not available for the multimodal search type, because these searches mostly use images, so judge image-led traffic by page, country and device, and make product and article images distinctive enough for Lens to match.
Ibrahim Anjro · Day 3 · Inside Search Console: What’s New & How to Use It
A query reaches Search Console's Performance report only through an impression, so queries cannot come before impressions; what rises first after a publish or refresh is the number of queries with a few impressions each, before total impressions and clicks grow noticeably.
Ibrahim Anjro · Day 3 · Lightning session L: Understanding SERPs and your users
Kit items about 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, 5 of them naming Performance report; its own words name Performance report
Also inglossary terms AI-powered configuration, Generative AI performance report, Multimodal search type
Google's AI features guide says traffic from sites appearing in AI features such as AI Overviews and AI Mode is included in the overall search traffic in Search Console and reported in the Performance report within the Web search type.
Google's AI features guide says traffic from sites appearing in AI features such as AI Overviews and AI Mode is included in the overall search traffic in Search Console and reported in the Performance report within the Web search type.
Things named in the same claim, with the number of claims they share.