Pageview-weighted referral share for classic search engines — Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yahoo, Yandex, Baidu and others — across the BYOViral public analytics network. Refreshed daily. AI answer engines are tracked separately at the per-site level.
| # | Search engine | Pageviews | Share | % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12,457 | 41.29% | ||
| 2 | Bing | 8,167 | 27.07% | |
| 3 | DuckDuckGo | 4,735 | 15.69% | |
| 4 | Yahoo | 2,868 | 9.51% | |
| 5 | Ecosia | 945 | 3.13% | |
| 6 | Yandex | 482 | 1.60% | |
| 7 | Qwant | 310 | 1.03% | |
| 8 | Brave | 129 | 0.43% | |
| 9 | Startpage | 44 | 0.15% | |
| 10 | Baidu | 35 | 0.12% |
Referrer hosts are extracted from incoming pageview tracker beacons and matched against a curated allowlist of classic search engines: Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yahoo, Yandex, Baidu, Ecosia, Startpage, Qwant, Brave and AOL. Suffix matching is anchored to known host suffixes to avoid spoofed referrers (e.g. google.com.attacker.com would not match). Pageviews are aggregated network-wide across public, opt-in BYOViral sites only.
AI answer engines (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google AI Mode and similar) are tracked separately at the per-site level inside each BYOViral dashboard, and are not included in this network-wide search engine dataset. Many AI clients also strip the Referer header, which would under-count AI traffic in any case. See the full methodology and sample-size disclosure for details.