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About one in four Google impressions for the Arabic sites we checked now comes with a link inside an AI Overview or AI Mode answer. Across three client properties, Search Console’s new Generative AI report logged 13.7 million AI-feature impressions between 2 and 29 September 2026. On the two sites where we could compare, that equals 24.8% and 27.6% of all their web impressions. Clicks are not reported at all.<\/p>\n

This is the first Arab-market reading of the report we have seen published. Google rolled it out to every website on 31 August 2026, so most marketing teams in Riyadh, Dubai and Cairo opened it for the first time last month. Below are the numbers, how to read them, and what they do not tell you.<\/p>\n

What does Search Console’s Generative AI report measure?<\/h2>\n

The report counts how often a link to your site was shown inside an AI Overview or an AI Mode answer on Google Search. It reports impressions only, with no clicks, by page, country, device and date. Google says the data is part of the Web search type in the normal Performance report, so AI impressions sit inside your existing totals.<\/p>\n

That last point matters for anyone comparing numbers. According to Google’s help page for the report<\/a>, the generative AI data “includes data from the Web search type” in the main Performance report. Nothing is added on top. A ratio of AI impressions to web impressions is therefore a share of your own visibility, not a separate audience.<\/p>\n

Three limits apply. A page used as a source without a visible link earns no impression. There is no year-on-year history, because the report only launched in Google’s announcement of June 2026<\/a>. And Search Labs experiments are excluded.<\/p>\n

The default view filters to “Web: text-based”. A second option, “Web: multimodal”, covers Google Lens and Circle to Search, which Google added in September 2026. Keep the filter on text when you compare against the main report.<\/p>\n

How we pulled the data<\/h2>\n

We read the Generative AI report in Search Console for three client properties on 4 October 2026, using the default “last 28 days” window (2 to 29 September 2026). We then pulled web impressions for the same dates from the Search Console API. All three clients agreed to aggregated, anonymous use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Site<\/th>\nWhat it is<\/th>\nMain audience<\/th>\nAI-feature impressions<\/th>\nWeb impressions<\/th>\nAI \u00f7 web<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Site A<\/td>\nLarge Arabic health information site<\/td>\nSaudi Arabia, Egypt, Levant, North Africa<\/td>\n13,567,046<\/td>\n54,733,794<\/td>\n24.8%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Site B<\/td>\nMid-size Arabic clinic site (gastroenterology)<\/td>\nSaudi Arabia, Egypt, Syria, Kuwait<\/td>\n95,474<\/td>\n345,944<\/td>\n27.6%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Site C<\/td>\nMultilingual consumer app, Arabic section included<\/td>\nSyria, Egypt, Turkey, Iraq, Saudi Arabia<\/td>\n60,800<\/td>\nNot available<\/td>\nNot available<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Two sites in one sector is a small sample. Treat these as the first measured reference points for Arabic content, not as a market average. Site C’s Search Console access covers the whole multilingual domain, so its Arabic share cannot be separated. We report its country spread only.<\/p>\n

Does the AI share change from one Arab country to another?<\/h2>\n

On a large site it barely moves. Site A’s AI share sat between 23.6% and 26.6% in all ten Arab countries in its top list, from Saudi Arabia to Tunisia. On the smaller clinic site the spread was wider: 35.5% of Saudi impressions carried an AI link, against 21.9% in Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Country<\/th>\nSite A: AI \u00f7 web<\/th>\nSite B: AI \u00f7 web<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Saudi Arabia<\/td>\n23.8%<\/td>\n35.5%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Egypt<\/td>\n25.8%<\/td>\n29.2%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Syria<\/td>\n26.6%<\/td>\n23.8%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Algeria<\/td>\n23.6%<\/td>\n29.3%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Iraq<\/td>\n24.4%<\/td>\n29.0%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jordan<\/td>\n25.0%<\/td>\n29.4%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Morocco<\/td>\n24.1%<\/td>\n25.3%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Yemen<\/td>\n23.9%<\/td>\n21.9%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kuwait<\/td>\nNot in AI top 10<\/td>\n26.2%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Libya<\/td>\n24.4%<\/td>\nNot in AI top 10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tunisia<\/td>\n24.4%<\/td>\nNot in AI top 10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Source: Search Console Generative AI report (AI impressions) and Search Console API (web impressions), 2 to 29 September 2026, read by VOCTOS on 4 October 2026.<\/p>\n

The flat line on Site A points to one thing. Google shows AI Overviews and AI Mode to Arabic-language searchers at a similar rate whether they search from the Gulf, Egypt or the Maghreb. That fits Google’s May 2025 decision<\/a> to launch AI Overviews in Arabic across the region at once, rather than country by country.<\/p>\n

Site B’s Saudi figure is the outlier. With 42,984 Saudi web impressions in the period, the sample is large enough to take seriously, but one month is one month. We will re-read it in November.<\/p>\n

Is the AI share growing week to week?<\/h2>\n

On Site B, yes, and fast. Its AI-feature impressions rose 39% between 20 and 29 September 2026, from 3,728 to 5,182 a day. Web impressions rose 6.4% over the same days. The AI share of daily impressions climbed from 25.7% to 33.6% in nine days.<\/p>\n

Site A moved far less. Its daily web impressions held between 1.8 and 2.0 million through September, and its AI share stayed near a quarter. Large sites with thousands of ranking pages appear to have reached their level already, while a smaller site’s pages are still being picked up as sources.<\/p>\n

The timing overlaps with the September 2026 spam update<\/a>, which Google started on 24 September. Site B’s average web position also improved after that date, from 6.7 to 7.6 between 20 and 23 September to 6.0 to 6.4 between 25 and 28 September. We cannot separate the two effects from this data, so we do not claim the update caused the AI growth.<\/p>\n

Want to know what share of your own Arabic traffic now runs through AI answers?<\/strong> Read my Search Console AI report with VOCTOS and tell me what it means<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Which pages earn the AI impressions?<\/h2>\n

A small set of pages does most of the work. On Site B, 10 of the 435 pages with AI impressions collected 74.2% of the total (70,832 of 95,474). Every one of the ten answers a symptom or diet question in plain terms, the kind of query Google tends to answer with an AI summary first.<\/p>\n

The pattern is easy to check on your own site. Open the Pages tab, sort by impressions and compare the top ten against your top ten in the normal Performance report. Pages that rank but never appear in the AI list are your gap. Pages that appear in the AI list but sit beyond position 10 in normal results are worth keeping current, because the AI answer is now their main shop window.<\/p>\n

One of Site B’s top ten uses an Arabic-script URL slug and the other nine use English slugs. Slug language did not keep a page out of AI answers. Our test of Arabic URL slugs<\/a> covers the trade-offs for sharing and analytics.<\/p>\n

Mobile or desktop: where do Arabic AI impressions happen?<\/h2>\n

Almost entirely on phones, because that is where Arabic search happens. On Site B, 96.6% of AI-feature impressions came from mobile. On Site A the AI share was slightly higher on desktop (26.8%) than on mobile (24.7%), but mobile still delivered 12.96 million of its 13.57 million AI impressions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Device<\/th>\nSite A: AI impressions<\/th>\nSite A: AI \u00f7 web<\/th>\nSite B: AI impressions<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Mobile<\/td>\n12,960,023<\/td>\n24.7%<\/td>\n92,184<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Desktop<\/td>\n455,468<\/td>\n26.8%<\/td>\n2,486<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tablet<\/td>\n151,555<\/td>\n26.1%<\/td>\n804<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

For page design, this means the first screen of an AI answer on a phone is the battleground. If your page is cited, the link card is small. A clear page title and a fast mobile page decide whether the rare click turns into a visit that stays. Our Core Web Vitals study of 45 Arab brand sites<\/a> found most of them fail on phones.<\/p>\n

How do you compare several Arab countries at once?<\/h2>\n

Since 6 October 2026, the Search Console performance report lets you pick several countries in one filter and see their combined Google Search traffic (Search Engine Roundtable, 6 October 2026<\/a>). For Arab sites this saves a step: build one group for the Gulf (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman) and one for the wider Arab audience, then compare the two groups instead of reading country rows one by one. The figures in this article were pulled before the change, country by country, so they are not affected.<\/p>\n

What the report does not show<\/h2>\n

The report has no clicks, no queries and no split between AI Overviews and AI Mode. You see that a link was shown, not whether anyone tapped it, and not which question triggered it. Google has not said when, or whether, clicks will be added.<\/p>\n

Three workarounds help until then:<\/p>\n