Featured Snippets Appear on 0.1% of Google Desktop Searches vs 57.6% for AI Overviews

    Google's featured snippet, the boxed answer quoted from one website at the top of the results, appears on 0.1% of desktop searches: 11 of 20,000. An AI Overview appears on 57.6% of the same searches.

    Featured snippet or answer box by desktop search group
    All searches
    0.1%
    Informational
    0.2%
    Commercial
    0%
    Transactional
    0%
    Navigational
    0%

    Source: Suff Digital analysis of 30,000 Google results pages · Google US search results, September 2026

    Mobile rate of featured snippet or answer box by intent
    Navigational
    4.4%
    Informational
    0.7%
    Commercial
    0.2%
    Transactional
    0.1%

    Source: Suff Digital analysis of 30,000 Google results pages · Google US search results, September 2026

    Source: Featured Snippets Appear on 0.1% of Google Desktop Searches vs 57.6% for AI Overviews - Suff Digital