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All sites / United States / #14 / Social and video platforms / ByteDance

tiktok.com held its search traffic within 10%.

estimated monthly search visits, Oct 2024
74.3M
estimated monthly search visits, Oct 2024
estimated monthly search visits, Oct 2026
76.7M
estimated monthly search visits, Oct 2026
change in estimated search traffic
+3%
change in estimated search traffic
change in keywords ranking top 3
+29%
change in keywords ranking top 3

Estimated search traffic

046.5M92.9M2024-10-03: 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 202474.3MOct 202584.5MOct 202676.7M
tiktok.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

01.1M2.2M2024-10-03: 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 20241.6MOct 20251.3MOct 20262.0M
tiktok.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 9,531,319 ranking keywords in Oct 2026, against 55,110,789 in Oct 2024.

How often AI answers cite tiktok.com

EngineCitations in the Ahrefs index
ChatGPTwithheld, failed consistency check
Google AI Mode84,345
Gemini2,349

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

Five questions we ask the AI engines about tiktok.com

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

EngineNamedLinked
ChatGPT3 of 52 of 5
Google AI Mode3 of 52 of 5
Gemini3 of 50 of 5
  1. Give me an overview of “alix earle”, with links to reliable sources.from the keyword “alix earle”
  2. Give me an overview of “wnba finals”, with links to reliable sources.from the keyword “wnba finals”
  3. Give me an overview of “tiktok recharge”, with links to reliable sources.from the keyword “tiktok recharge”
  4. Give me an overview of “tiktok coins”, with links to reliable sources.from the keyword “tiktok coins”
  5. Give a non-explicit overview of the website named MyReadingManga and its age restrictions, without describing sexual content or providing links.from the keyword “myreadingmanga”

Visits since ChatGPT launched

all visits, Nov 2022
329.2M
all visits, Nov 2022
all visits, Oct 2026
598.8M
all visits, Oct 2026
organic search visits, Oct 2026
121.9M
organic search visits, Oct 2026
visits from AI assistants, Oct 2026
279K
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.

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