What happened:
On June 3, 2026, Google launched a new report inside Search Console (a free tool website owners use to check how their site does on Google). This new report shows how often a website shows up inside Google’s AI-powered search answers, like AI Overviews and AI Mode, plus AI features in Discover.

Why it matters:
Before this, website owners could not tell how much of their traffic came from regular search results versus AI-generated answers. Everything was mixed together. Now there’s a separate, dedicated view just for AI visibility.

What the report shows:

• Impressions – how many times your site’s pages showed up in an AI answer
• Pages – which exact pages are appearing in AI results
• Countries – where in the world your site is showing up in AI answers
• Devices – whether people saw your site on desktop or mobile (for Search only, not Discover)
• Dates – how this changes over time (hour by hour, day by day, week by week, or month by month)

What it does NOT show:

• No click data. You can see your page appeared in an AI answer, but not whether anyone clicked on it.
• No info on which search question (query) triggered your page to appear.

Other details:

• Google also added a new toggle letting site owners block their content from appearing in AI search features like AI Overviews and AI Mode.
• Sites that opt out won’t get any traffic or impressions from AI features, but this won’t hurt their ranking in normal search results.
• This is rolling out slowly — it started with a small group of website owners in the UK first, with plans to expand worldwide over time.
• Google said it will keep working with site owners to figure out what other data would help them, and plans to add more metrics later.

In short: Website owners can now see, in a separate report, how visible they are inside Google’s AI answers — but they still can’t see clicks, only “appearances.” It’s an early, limited rollout, with more features expected later.