8.64% of AI Overviews Seem Exterior Place #1 (And as Low as Place #6)

AI Overviews aren’t all the time within the first place within the SERPs.

For instance, right here’s an AI Overview within the 2nd place.

See the place AI Overviews seem outdoors of place 1

You need to use the SERP options filter together with the Place filter to search out a few of the AI Overviews outdoors the highest place. Head to Ahrefs’ Web site Explorer, navigate to the Natural key phrases report and replica these filters:

I requested our superior information scientist Xibeijia Guan to learn the way usually they present in numerous positions. She pulled 10M SERPs with AI Overviews whole, 1M per nation throughout 10 totally different international locations in July 2025.

AI Overviews present outdoors of place 1 for 8.64% of queries. The bottom place we noticed them was sixth.

10M AI Overviews had them in 1st for 91.36% of SERPs

We additionally seen slight variations in international locations, with Japan and Spain having extra AI Overviews outdoors of place 1.

Proper now there aren’t plenty of AI Overviews exhibiting outdoors the first place, nevertheless it does look like Google is keen to rank a few of them decrease. It makes me marvel if they’ve some type of scoring for the way good the generated AI Overview result’s.

I’m additionally curious if they begin rating them outdoors of place 1 extra usually, or in the event that they resolve to return to all of them being in place 1.