August 10, 2026 · SEO & Tools · 8 min read

Search Console Now Shows Your AI Overviews and AI Mode Impressions

Google Search Console has a new Generative AI performance report, and for the first time you can see how often your pages show up inside AI Overviews, AI Mode, and Discover's AI features — separately from your regular search data.

What this report actually is

Until now, if your content showed up in an AI Overview or AI Mode answer, that activity was buried inside your normal Web search totals in the Performance report. There was no way to isolate it. You could see traffic existed, but not attribute it to AI surfaces specifically.

Google's new Generative AI performance reports fix that by giving you a dedicated view. The underlying data isn't new or separate — it's still counted inside the overall Performance report — but you now get a filtered lens that shows just the AI-surface slice of it.

Two reports: Search and Discover

There are actually two separate reports, and they don't overlap:

Search Labs experiments aren't included in either report yet, since those features are still considered experimental.

What the report shows — and what it leaves out

Right now it's an impressions-only report. You can slice by page, country, device, and date to see which content is getting surfaced, but there's no click data, no CTR, no average position, and no query-level breakdown yet.

That's a meaningful limit worth sitting with. Knowing a page appeared inside an AI answer tells you it was used — it doesn't tell you whether anyone acted on it, or which query triggered it. Treat this as a visibility signal, not a full performance metric.

How to check if you have it

1. Open Google Search Console and select your property.
2. Go to Performance in the left sidebar.
3. Look for a Generative AI tab alongside the standard Search results view.
4. If it's there, choose the Search or Discover version and pick a dimension — pages, countries, or devices — to break the data down.
5. If it's not there yet, that's normal — Google is rolling this out to a subset of sites first, based on how much AI-surface traffic a property already gets.

There's also an opt-out toggle

Alongside the reports, Google is adding a control that lets a site opt its content out of appearing in generative AI features entirely. Google has said this won't be used as a ranking signal for regular organic results — opting out only affects AI-feature visibility, not your normal search rankings.

Why it matters for app content

If you publish tutorials, feature breakdowns, or how-to posts about your apps, some of that traffic has always been quietly flowing through AI Overviews and AI Mode without you being able to see it. This report is the first way to check which posts are actually getting picked up by generative features versus which ones only rank in classic blue-link results.

It's early data with a narrow metric, so don't over-read a single week of numbers. But watching which pages start showing up here over the next few months is a reasonable way to spot which of your writing style Google's AI features favor.

What it doesn't do

• It doesn't show clicks, CTR, or which query triggered the impression — yet.
• It doesn't cover ChatGPT, Perplexity, or other AI tools — this is Google Search and Discover only.
• It doesn't change your rankings or crawl behavior — it's a reporting tool, not an optimization lever.
• It's not available to every property immediately — rollout is gradual.

If any of your posts are already getting traction in classic search, it's worth checking back on this report in a few weeks — right now it's one of the only ways to see whether Google's AI features are actually reading and reusing your content.