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All sites / United States / #1 / Social and video platforms / Reddit

reddit.com grew its search traffic 72%.

estimated monthly search visits, Oct 2024
388.9M
estimated monthly search visits, Oct 2024
estimated monthly search visits, Oct 2026
669.0M
estimated monthly search visits, Oct 2026
change in estimated search traffic
+72%
change in estimated search traffic
change in keywords ranking top 3
+55%
change in keywords ranking top 3

Estimated search traffic

0367.9M735.9M2024-10-03: Ads in AI Overviews go live on US mobile2024-10-28: AI Overviews expand to 100 or more countries2024-11-11: November 2024 core update2024-12-12: December 2024 core update2025-03-05: AI Mode opens in Search Labs (US)2025-03-13: March 2025 core update2025-05-20: AI Mode rolls out to all US users2025-05-21: Ads in AI Mode and desktop AI Overviews (US)2025-06-30: June 2025 core update2025-09-18: AI Mode announced for Chrome address bar2025-11-18: Gemini 3 ships in AI Mode2025-12-11: December 2025 core update2026-01-27: Gemini 3 default for AI Overviews, handoff to AI Mode2026-02-05: February 2026 Discover core update2026-03-27: March 2026 core update2026-05-19: I/O 2026: AI Mode hits 1 billion users, Gemini 3.5 Flash2026-05-20: AI Overviews and AI Mode combined worldwide2026-05-21: May 2026 core update2026-09-29: AI Mode information monitoring for all usersOct 2024388.9MOct 2025632.4MOct 2026669.0M
reddit.com, Ahrefs estimated monthly organic search traffic, United States. Dotted line marks the Oct 2024 level. Vertical marks are Google results page changes.

Keywords ranking in Google's top three

012.7M25.4M2024-10-03: Ads in AI Overviews go live on US mobile2024-10-28: AI Overviews expand to 100 or more countries2024-11-11: November 2024 core update2024-12-12: December 2024 core update2025-03-05: AI Mode opens in Search Labs (US)2025-03-13: March 2025 core update2025-05-20: AI Mode rolls out to all US users2025-05-21: Ads in AI Mode and desktop AI Overviews (US)2025-06-30: June 2025 core update2025-09-18: AI Mode announced for Chrome address bar2025-11-18: Gemini 3 ships in AI Mode2025-12-11: December 2025 core update2026-01-27: Gemini 3 default for AI Overviews, handoff to AI Mode2026-02-05: February 2026 Discover core update2026-03-27: March 2026 core update2026-05-19: I/O 2026: AI Mode hits 1 billion users, Gemini 3.5 Flash2026-05-20: AI Overviews and AI Mode combined worldwide2026-05-21: May 2026 core update2026-09-29: AI Mode information monitoring for all usersOct 202414.9MOct 202520.0MOct 202623.1M
reddit.com, keywords ranking positions 1 to 3, United States. Dotted line marks the Oct 2024 level. Vertical marks are Google results page changes.

Points are Ahrefs Site Explorer estimates for the first of each month shown. Months in between are being collected. All 51,553,610 ranking keywords in Oct 2026, against 98,097,192 in Oct 2024.

How often AI answers cite reddit.com

EngineCitations in the Ahrefs index
ChatGPTwithheld, failed consistency check
Google AI Mode926,050
Gemini541,869

Ahrefs AI responses index, captured 28 October 2026, United States, including subdomains.

Five questions we ask the AI engines about reddit.com

Written from the site's own top Google keywords, keeping the intent of the search.

EngineNamedLinked
ChatGPT0 of 50 of 5
Google AI Mode0 of 50 of 5
Gemini0 of 50 of 5
  1. Give me an overview of “shedeur sanders”, with links to reliable sources.from the keyword “shedeur sanders”
  2. Give me an overview of “nearpod”, with links to reliable sources.from the keyword “nearpod”
  3. Give me an overview of “astros”, with links to reliable sources.from the keyword “astros”
  4. What is Wikipedia, and how does it create and check its content?from the keyword “wikipedia”
  5. Give me an overview of “mlb”, with links to reliable sources.from the keyword “mlb”

Visits since ChatGPT launched

all visits, Nov 2022
1.4B
all visits, Nov 2022
all visits, Oct 2026
2.3B
all visits, Oct 2026
organic search visits, Oct 2026
1.1B
organic search visits, Oct 2026
visits from AI assistants, Oct 2026
955K
visits from AI assistants, Oct 2026

Semrush Traffic Analytics modelled visits, United States, a separate source from the Ahrefs estimates above. Semrush restates this data on 9 November 2026.

reddit.com is also in the top 100 in Australia and United Kingdom.