Search Engine Referral Share 2026
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 referral share — 2026-08-17 to 2026-09-15
| # | Search engine | Pageviews | Share | % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bing | 12,328 | 35.30% | |
| 2 | DuckDuckGo | 9,473 | 27.12% | |
| 3 | 7,123 | 20.40% | ||
| 4 | Yahoo | 3,230 | 9.25% | |
| 5 | Ecosia | 1,226 | 3.51% | |
| 6 | Brave | 563 | 1.61% | |
| 7 | Qwant | 547 | 1.57% | |
| 8 | Yandex | 344 | 0.98% | |
| 9 | Startpage | 84 | 0.24% | |
| 10 | Baidu | 7 | 0.02% |
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Methodology
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.