Research · updated 3 November 2026
AI visibility statistics
How ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews and Perplexity recommend businesses, measured from
11,625 real AI answers to 64 questions customers ask, for 5 businesses over the last 90 days.
Every figure comes from an answer on record, and the page updates daily.
Key findings
41.2%of AI answers named no business at all, even though the question asked for a recommendation
1.6businesses named in an average AI answer
23.8%of answers used the tracked business’s own website as a source
30.8% vs 14.6%how often AI named a business when it was on Google’s map for that question, against when it wasn’t
Which AI names a business most often
How often each AI system named any business in its answer to a question asking for a recommendation, and how many it named on average.
Perplexity77.4%
2.4 businesses named per answer · 2,098 answers
ChatGPT65.1%
2 businesses named per answer · 2,488 answers
Google AI Mode53.3%
1.2 businesses named per answer · 2,502 answers
Google AI Overviews53%
1.1 businesses named per answer · 2,091 answers
Gemini47.1%
1.1 businesses named per answer · 2,446 answers
What AI reads before it recommends
Every website the AI systems cited, grouped by kind, out of 90,955 citations.
The businesses' own websites9.5%
Directories and review sites8%
Social and community sites3.5%
News, government and reference1.9%
The most-read websites
Share of all citations. Sites read for at least two different businesses; the tracked businesses’ own websites are left out.
| 1 | google.comGoogle's own page | 16.8% |
| 2 | maps.google.comGoogle's own page | 1.9% |
| 3 | facebook.comSocial and community site | 1.4% |
| 4 | request.angi.comDirectories and review site | 1.2% |
| 5 | bbb.orgDirectories and review site | 0.9% |
| 6 | instagram.comSocial and community site | 0.7% |
| 7 | reddit.comSocial and community site | 0.7% |
| 8 | m.yelp.comDirectories and review site | 0.7% |
| 9 | book.housecallpro.comOther website | 0.6% |
| 10 | youtube.comSocial and community site | 0.6% |
| 11 | bestprosintown.comDirectories and review site | 0.5% |
| 12 | m.yelp.caDirectories and review site | 0.4% |
Google’s map and AI answers
For the same question on the same morning: how often the AI systems named the business when Google’s map showed it, against when Google showed a map without it.
On Google’s map30.8%
3,223 answers
Map shown, business not on it14.6%
2,264 answers
This shows the two go together; it doesn’t show that one causes the other.
Price questions
When people asked what something costs, AI named a business less often than for other questions.
“How much does it cost…” questions34.3%
1,015 answers
All other questions61.2%
10,610 answers
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LLM Visibility Lens, “AI visibility statistics”, 3 November 2026, https://llmvisibilitylens.com/ai-visibility-statisticsHow these numbers are made
- Where they come from: the daily checks LLM Visibility Lens runs for the businesses it tracks: each question asked of each AI system, from the customer’s own country or town, the full answer recorded. Last 90 days, 25 August 2026 to 3 November 2026.
- Who’s in it: 5 businesses, mostly local service businesses, with a few online businesses. That’s a small, specific sample, not a survey of all businesses; read the figures as what happens for businesses like these.
- What counts as “named”: the answer recommends or lists the business by name. A link alone isn’t a naming.
- What’s left out: answers that failed to come back, and any figure resting on fewer than 100 answers. No business, question or answer is shown individually.
- The method behind every measurement is on how it works.