Why it matters
Google recommends the Generative AI performance report in Search Console for measuring how content performs in generative AI features on Search and Discover. It shows impressions, pages, countries, devices and dates, but no clicks or queries. The regular Performance report still counts traffic from AI Overviews and AI Mode within the Web search type, so analytics setups that split out LLM referrals do not isolate it. Since 24 September 2026 the Performance report also has a multimodal search type for searches with Google Lens, Circle to Search, uploaded images and Chrome's image search; it has no query dimension.
How to meet it
Add the report to the regular dashboard and compare countries and languages with native-language spot checks in AI Overviews and AI Mode. Add the multimodal search type to the same review and judge it by page, country and device.
How to test it
The report is reviewed monthly alongside the Performance report.
How Regensbot covers it
Regensbot walks you through the check in Search Console, collects the screenshot or export and tracks when the attestation expires. Attested is never shown as pass.
This setting or report lives in a Search Console screen that no API exposes, so a person checks it.
You verify the site by a DNS TXT record, a meta tag or a file. Regensbot then keeps a checklist item for this requirement, with a state, a guide, an evidence upload and reminders.
Sources
Google documents05
- 01Introducing Search Generative AI performance reports in Search ConsoleSearch Central blog (3 June 2026) (opens in a new tab)
- 02Optimizing your website for generative AI features on Google SearchGoogle Search Central (opens in a new tab)
- 03Generative AI performance report (Search)Google Search Console Help (opens in a new tab)
- 04Announcing web multimodal Search performance reporting in Search ConsoleSearch Central blog (24 September 2026) (opens in a new tab)
- 05Performance report (Search results): Overview and basic setupGoogle Search Console Help (opens in a new tab)
Claims in the knowledge base11
- D1-C062SourceHow Search works and where's AI?Google's documentation
- D1-C124SourceHow Search works and where's AI?Google's documentation
- D2-C607n/aFocusing on Internationalisation and LocalisationThe author's interpretation
- D3-C438ConfirmedInside Search Console: What’s New & How to Use ItSaid on stage
- D3-C439ConfirmedInside Search Console: What’s New & How to Use ItSaid on stage
- D3-C441n/aInside Search Console: What’s New & How to Use ItThe author's interpretation
- D3-C498SourceLightning session L: Understanding SERPs and your usersGoogle's documentation
- D3-C458ConfirmedInside Search Console: What’s New & How to Use ItSaid on stage
- D3-C459ConsistentInside Search Console: What’s New & How to Use ItSaid on stage
- D3-C462n/aInside Search Console: What’s New & How to Use ItThe author's interpretation
- D3-C465SourceInside Search Console: What’s New & How to Use ItGoogle's documentation
Claim IDs refer to the Search Central Live 2026 knowledge base. The knowledge base (opens in a new tab)
- Confirmed
- Google's documentation states the same thing.
- Consistent
- Google's documentation supports it without stating it.
- Source
- The claim is the cited document itself.
- n/a
- Nothing to verify: a quotation, framing, opinion or analysis.