Google Search Console Generative AI Report: Full Guide
Wondering what the Google Search Console generative AI report actually tells you now it’s live for every site? The quick version is just below — and then I’ll show you how I read it for my own sites without fooling myself, because this report hides as much as it reveals.
Short answer
The report is now live for all websites worldwide — Google’s own wording: “As of August 31, 2026, we’ve rolled out these insights to all websites worldwide.”
It covers AI Overviews and AI Mode on Google Search; Discover gets a separate report and Search Labs experiments are excluded.
It shows impressions only — how many times links to your site were shown inside a generative AI feature. No clicks, no position.
You can segment by pages, countries, dates and devices, with the usual 1,000-row cap.
If it’s empty: not enough AI impressions yet, or you’ve opted your site out of Search generative AI features.
What the Google Search Console generative AI report actually shows
Google introduced this report on the Search Central blog in June 2026 and finished the job at the end of August: per the official Search Console help documentation (fetched 14 September 2026), “As of August 31, 2026, we’ve rolled out these insights to all websites worldwide.” That makes this month the first time every site owner — not just the lucky early cohort — can see how they show up in Google’s AI surfaces.
Here’s exactly what’s in scope, straight from the documentation:
Surface
In this report?
Notes
AI Overviews
✅ Yes
Impressions when your links appear in an AI Overview on Search
AI Mode
✅ Yes
Impressions from Google’s conversational AI Mode
Discover generative AI features
❌ Separate
Discover has its own dedicated report
Search Labs experiments
❌ Excluded
“Search Console doesn’t include data from experiments in Search Labs”
The metric is impressions: in Google’s words, “how many times links to your site were shown to a user in a generative AI feature on Google Search.” You can slice it by pages, countries, dates and devices, subject to the familiar 1,000-row limitation. You open it from the performance section of Search Console, or directly via the link Google publishes in the help doc.
How to read the Google Search Console generative AI report without fooling yourself
Impressions-only data is genuinely useful and genuinely dangerous. Here’s the reading order I use on my own properties:
Establish your AI baseline. Pull the last 28 days of AI impressions and compare against total Search impressions. That ratio tells you how exposed you already are to AI surfaces — for most niches it’s growing month on month.
Find the pages Google’s AI trusts. Segment by page. The URLs earning AI Overview impressions are the content shapes Google’s systems consider citable — study their structure (direct answers up top, clear headings, FAQ blocks) and replicate it deliberately.
Cross-reference with clicks elsewhere. Because this report has no click data, pair it with your regular performance report. A page with rising AI impressions and falling clicks is being answered in place — that’s where you restructure for the click (tools, data, offers) rather than the answer alone.
Watch devices and countries. AI Mode adoption is uneven; segmenting shows where your audience actually meets these features.
The mistake to avoid: treating AI impressions as vanity growth. An impression inside an AI answer that fully satisfies the query is a rival, not a win. The sites winning right now structure content so the AI cites them and leaves a reason to click through.
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What it still won’t tell you
Three honest gaps. First, no clicks or CTR — you cannot compute how AI visibility converts from this report alone. Second, no query-level view of how your content was used inside the answer — an impression could be a headline citation or a buried footnote link. Third, nothing from Search Labs, so genuinely new experimental surfaces stay dark until they graduate.
There’s also a control worth knowing: Google now offers a property-level toggle to exclude your site from Search generative AI features entirely, and per the documentation that exclusion also empties this report. I don’t recommend opting out — invisibility in AI surfaces is not a strategy in 2026 — but it exists, and it won’t be used as a ranking signal for regular web results.
The bottom line on the Google Search Console generative AI report
For the first time, every site owner on the planet gets an official, first-party view of their AI Overview and AI Mode visibility — impressions by page, country, date and device. It’s deliberately incomplete (no clicks, no Labs data), but combined with your standard performance report it answers the question every SEO client is asking this year: are we showing up in Google’s AI answers? Check yours this week, find your citable pages, and double down on the shapes that are working.
And if the report shows you’re invisible in AI surfaces, that’s fixable — it’s what I do all day. Join the AI Profit Boardroom to learn the system, or book a free SEO strategy session and we’ll build your AI visibility plan together.
FAQ: Google Search Console generative AI report
Where do I find the Google Search Console generative AI report?
Open Search Console and head to the performance section — Google links it directly at search.google.com/search-console/performance/search-analytics/ai. If your property doesn’t show it, your site may not yet have enough impressions in generative AI features.
Does the report show clicks from AI Overviews?
No. Per Google’s official help documentation, the report shows impressions — how many times links to your site were shown to a user in a generative AI feature on Google Search. Click data isn’t part of this report.
Which AI surfaces are included?
AI Overviews and AI Mode on Google Search. Discover has its own separate report, and Google explicitly excludes data from Search Labs experiments.
When did it roll out to all sites?
Google’s own wording: “As of August 31, 2026, we’ve rolled out these insights to all websites worldwide.” The report was first introduced on the Search Central blog in June 2026.
Can I segment the data?
Yes — by pages, countries, dates and devices. The standard 1,000-row limitation from other performance reports applies here too.
Why is my report empty?
Three documented reasons: the rollout hadn’t reached your property yet, your site doesn’t get enough impressions in generative AI features to display, or you’ve excluded your site from Search generative AI features with the property-level control.
Next step: open your generative AI report today, then come get the playbook for growing those numbers — the AI Profit Boardroom (daily tutorials, four live calls a week) or a free SEO strategy session if you want my eyes on your site.
About the author
Julian Goldie is an SEO agency owner with 10+ years in SEO, 394K+ YouTube subscribers, a 100% Upwork job-success score, 75K+ community members across his groups, and a best-selling SEO book. He publishes daily AI SEO tutorials on YouTube.
Want to learn AI SEO with him? Join the AI Profit Boardroom (3,700+ members, four live calls per week, daily tutorials, done-for-you templates and a 30-day roadmap) or book a free SEO strategy session for a custom plan — and if you need done-for-you SEO, book a call with the Goldie Agency for a custom quote.
Last updated September 2026. This is the living guide to Google Search Console generative AI report — it gets updated as the tools change.
