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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.

By BYO Team Window: 2026-04-27 — 2026-05-26 Last updated May 25, 2026
Bing accounts for 32.4% of search-engine referral pageviews on the BYOViral public network over the trailing 30 days, with 41,112 pageviews recorded across 11 distinct search engines. BYOViral Intelligence Center, May 2026 · https://www.byoviral.com/intelligence/search-engine-share-2026
126,760
Search pageviews
11
Distinct search engines
30
Days observed

Search engine referral share — 2026-04-27 to 2026-05-26

Top 11 search engines by total pageviews.
#Search enginePageviewsShare
1 Bing 41,112
2 Google 36,945
3 DuckDuckGo 28,017
4 Yahoo 13,266
5 Ecosia 2,563
6 Yandex 1,889
7 Baidu 1,096
8 Brave 985
9 Qwant 629
10 Startpage 240
11 AOL 18
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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.