Pageview-weighted referral share for classic search engines — Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yahoo, Yandex, Baidu and others — across the BYOViral public analytics network. Refreshed daily. AI answer engines are tracked separately at the per-site level.
| # | Search engine | Pageviews | Share | % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bing | 9,425 | 36.74% | |
| 2 | 6,050 | 23.58% | ||
| 3 | DuckDuckGo | 5,089 | 19.84% | |
| 4 | Yahoo | 3,006 | 11.72% | |
| 5 | Ecosia | 1,055 | 4.11% | |
| 6 | Yandex | 462 | 1.80% | |
| 7 | Qwant | 309 | 1.20% | |
| 8 | Brave | 162 | 0.63% | |
| 9 | Startpage | 54 | 0.21% | |
| 10 | Baidu | 40 | 0.16% |
Referrer hosts are extracted from incoming pageview tracker beacons and matched against a curated allowlist of classic search engines: Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yahoo, Yandex, Baidu, Ecosia, Startpage, Qwant, Brave and AOL. Suffix matching is anchored to known host suffixes to avoid spoofed referrers (e.g. google.com.attacker.com would not match). Pageviews are aggregated network-wide across public, opt-in BYOViral sites only.
AI answer engines (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google AI Mode and similar) are tracked separately at the per-site level inside each BYOViral dashboard, and are not included in this network-wide search engine dataset. Many AI clients also strip the Referer header, which would under-count AI traffic in any case. See the full methodology and sample-size disclosure for details.