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title: "What is Average position in Search Console? | Kodalogic"
description: "Average position, also called keyword position, is the mean ranking of a site for a query or page across all the impressions it received in a period."
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[Glossary](/glossary)/Average position

Google Search Console · Metric

# What is Average position?

Average position, also called keyword position, is the mean ranking of a site for a query or page across all the [impressions](/glossary/impressions) it received in a period, as reported by Google Search Console. A value of 8.4 means the result typically appeared around the eighth organic slot.

1. 1
2. 2your page
3. 3
4. 4your page
5. 5your page
6. 6
7. 7
8. 8

Average position3.7shown at 2, 4, 5

Shown at 2, 4 and 5: an average position of 3.7.

Data source

Google Search Console

Type

Metric

Formula

Average position = sum of positions across impressions / impressions

## Why it matters

Because it averages every impression, including rare deep-page ones, the number can worsen when a site starts appearing for many new queries, even while its best rankings improve. Position and ranking describe the same thing from two ends: ranking is the outcome you work on, position is the number Search Console gives you for it; because it is an average across impressions, a page can be "position 4.6" while never having sat at 4 or 6.

## How to read it

In practice, read average position together with impressions: a stable position on rising impressions means growing visibility, while a worsening average during rapid growth usually just means many new queries entered at low positions. Per-query position is the actionable number; the site-wide average is only a temperature reading. Google computes it from the topmost position a property's results occupied on each impression, so a page appearing twice counts its better slot.

## In a Data Studio report

In a dashboard the average position scorecard is best read next to impressions and clicks rather than alone, and the query table gives each keyword its own position with a period-over-period delta. A distribution chart, keywords in the top 3, in 4-10, beyond 10, turns the single average into a shape you can act on.

## Where to find it in Google Search Console

Search Console: Performance, then Search results, with the Average position card enabled (it is off by default); per query in the Queries tab.

Shown in these dashboards

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![Average position on the Page rankings page of the Google Search Console Dashboard for Data Studio](/informes/2026-09-02/google-search-console-template-for-looker-studio/14.webp)

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## See it in a report

[Keyword ranking report](/glossary/keyword-ranking-report)

## Related terms

* [Impressions](/glossary/impressions)
* [Keyword ranking](/glossary/keyword-ranking)
* [Keyword ranking report](/glossary/keyword-ranking-report)
* [CTR](/glossary/ctr)
* [Brand vs generic keywords](/glossary/brand-vs-generic-keywords)
* [Page indexing](/glossary/page-indexing)

[← CTR](/glossary/ctr)[All 49 terms](/glossary)[Brand vs generic keywords →](/glossary/brand-vs-generic-keywords)