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  "id": "featured-snippets-get-8-6-percent-of-clicks",
  "slug": "featured-snippets-get-8-6-percent-of-clicks",
  "url": "https://groundedkit.com/claims/featured-snippets-get-8-6-percent-of-clicks/",
  "api_url": "https://groundedkit.com/api/claims/featured-snippets-get-8-6-percent-of-clicks.json",
  "claim": "A featured snippet gets only about 8.6% of clicks, while the result below it gets about 19.6%",
  "commonly_cited_as": "\"Featured snippets steal clicks from #1\"",
  "verdict": "verified",
  "verdict_definition": "Primary source found; it says the same thing, the scope matches, and it is reasonably current.",
  "confidence": "medium",
  "rating": {
    "value": 5,
    "best": 5,
    "worst": 1
  },
  "origin": {
    "publisher": "Ahrefs",
    "title": "Ahrefs' Study of 2 Million Featured Snippets (May 29, 2017)",
    "year": "2017"
  },
  "quote": "When there's a featured snippet at the #1 position, it only gets ~8.6% of clicks (on average), while the page that ranks right below it will get ~19.6% of clicks (on average).",
  "method": "Ahrefs clickstream estimates for SERPs with featured snippets (samples up to 2 million keywords).",
  "drift": [
    "Age: 2017, before AI Overviews changed SERP layouts",
    "Clickstream estimates, not Google data"
  ],
  "interest": "Ahrefs sells SEO software.",
  "safe_rephrasing": "Ahrefs' 2017 study estimated that a featured snippet at #1 got about 8.6% of clicks versus 19.6% for the result below it; the SERP has changed a lot since.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Ahrefs — Featured snippets study (2017)",
      "url": "https://ahrefs.com/blog/featured-snippets-study/",
      "primary": true
    }
  ],
  "kind": "stat_check",
  "as_of": "Ahrefs US data, 2017",
  "last_checked": "2026-10-16",
  "stale": false,
  "date_reviewed": "2026-10-16",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}