There are over 86,000 searches happening on Google every second ( Internet Live Stats).99.58% of featured snippets already rank in positions 1 through 10 on Google ( Ahrefs).Pages ranking 1 through 3 on search engine results pages (SERPs) generate a clickthrough rate of 36% ( Searchmetrics).BrightEdge found that organic traffic accounts for over 40% of revenue across Retail, Media & Entertainment, Business Services, Technology/Internet, and Hospitality ( BrightEdge).A breakdown of global search engine traffic on desktop: Google (72.4%), Bing (12.3%), Baidu (11.3%), Yahoo (1.9%) (NetMarketShare) ( NetMarketShare).94% of clicks in the SERPs go to organic results ( Search Engine Watch).Over 3.5 billion searches are performed daily on Google ( Ardor SEO).Google reported making over 3,620 “improvements” to search in 2018 ( Search Engine Journal).No up-to-date numbers have been published, but one study puts smart speaker ownership in the US at close to 90 million ( Voicebot) ComScore predicted search queries would account for half of searches by 2020.Mobile voice searches are 3x more likely be for something local than text searches ( Search Engine Watch).Roughly 75% of voice search results are from one of the top 3 desktop ranking pages for a given query ( Backlinko).The average page Google voice search result contains 2,312 words ( Backlinko).Voice search results typically load in 4.6 seconds, which is 52% faster than the load time of the average page ( Backlinko).The average reading level of a voice search result is 9th grade ( Backlinko).The average Google voice search result receives 1,199 Facebook shares and 44 Tweets ( Backlinko).Websites with strong link authority tend to rank well in voice search ( Backlinko).Pages using Schema only account for 36.4% of voice search results, versus the global average of 31.3% ( Backlinko).Voice search results contain an average of only 29 words ( Backlinko).If anything, they are a lower estimate than the actual figures, so it’s a safe bet to cite ‘or more’ with any mention when referring to the numbers above. However, for those of you that want to cite actual figures, you should be aware that Google has not provided their data for some time, and these are the most up-to-date estimates available online. 2.55 trillion searches per year in 2020, up from 2.00 trillion searches in 2016.212 billion searches per month in 2020, up from 167 billion searches in 2016.7 billion searches per day in 2020, up from 5.5 billion searches in 2016.292 million searches per hour in 2020, up from 228 million searches in 2016.4.9 million searches per minute in 2020, up from 3.8 million searches in 2016.How have these numbers changed in terms of Google’s search growth? If we were to look at how many people are using Google yearly, the number was over 2.55 trillion searches in 2020. Currently, the number of searches on Google a day is over 7 billion, which translates to people searching 81,000 times per second.