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 | DuckDuckGo | 9,358 | 32.33% | |
| 2 | Bing | 8,383 | 28.97% | |
| 3 | 6,969 | 24.08% | ||
| 4 | Yahoo | 2,182 | 7.54% | |
| 5 | Ecosia | 1,007 | 3.48% | |
| 6 | Yandex | 419 | 1.45% | |
| 7 | Qwant | 377 | 1.30% | |
| 8 | Brave | 142 | 0.49% | |
| 9 | Startpage | 69 | 0.24% | |
| 10 | Baidu | 34 | 0.12% | |
| 11 | AOL | 1 | 0.00% |
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.