Rand Fishkin came out with yet an eye popping study, saying that based on SimilarWeb data “64.82% of searches on Google (desktop and mobile combined) ended in the search results without clicking to another web property.” The previous year he used JumpShot data which showed 50.33% of all Google searches ended without a click to any web property in the results.
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