Google Search Console’s New Generative AI Report | Alneeko

A new Performance report — “Generative AI features” (Beta) — is live in Search Console. We pulled it up on our own property to show you exactly what it tracks and why it matters for anyone doing AEO/GEO work.

What we’re looking at

Google Search Console has rolled out a dedicated report under Performance called Generative AI features, currently tagged Beta. It sits alongside the familiar Search results, Discover, and News reports — but instead of measuring classic blue-link performance, it isolates impressions and (where available) clicks that come specifically from Google’s AI-powered surfaces in Search, such as AI Overviews and AI Mode.

Here’s our own alneeko.com data pulled directly from Search Console this week:

Search Console → Performance → Generative AI features (Beta) — 149 impressions over the trailing 3 months, with a clear upward trend from early July onward.

VERIFIED Screenshot taken directly from our own Search Console property (alneeko.com) on the date of publishing. The report location is Performance → Generative AI features, filtered to the 3-month view.

Why this matters more than it looks like it does

For most of the industry, “how do I know if my content is showing up in AI Overviews” has been a guessing game — stitched together from rank trackers, manual prompting, and third-party tools that estimate rather than confirm. This report is Google handing site owners a first-party answer, straight from the same data source that already runs the rest of your Search Console reporting.

A few reasons this is worth building into your regular reporting cadence rather than treating it as a novelty tab:

• It’s first-party and free. No scraping, no simulated prompts, no third-party AI-visibility tool subscription required.
• It separates AI-surface impressions from classic search impressions, so you can finally see whether a page is earning visibility inside AI Overviews specifically — not just guessing from a blended impressions number.
• It trends over time. Our own graph shows near-zero activity through May and June, then a step-change starting the first week of July — which lines up with when we shipped a run of AEO-structured content (FAQ blocks, source-graded claims, clearer entity definitions).
• It’s still Beta, which means coverage, filtering options, and query-level breakdowns will likely expand — worth checking back monthly rather than once.

VENDOR CLAIM Google has not published detailed documentation on exactly which AI surfaces (AI Overviews vs. AI Mode vs. other generative features) are bucketed into this report, or the full methodology behind how an “impression” is counted in a generative context. Treat the report as directionally useful and first-party — but don’t over-index on the precision of a single number yet.

How to check it on your own property

• Open Search Console and select your property.
• In the left sidebar, expand Performance.
• Click Generative AI features (it will carry a Beta tag).
• Switch the date range to 3 months or More to see the trend, not just a single week.
• Cross-reference any spikes against your publishing calendar — new pillar posts, FAQ sections, or structured-data changes are the most common triggers we’ve seen.

What we’re doing with this

We’re adding this report to our own monthly GSC review alongside our usual impressions-by-query tracking. If you’re a client, this is now part of what we check when we report on AEO/GEO progress — not just whether ChatGPT or Perplexity cite a page, but whether Google’s own generative surfaces are picking it up too.

If you manage your own site’s SEO, it’s worth two minutes this week to go pull up this report yourself and see what your own trendline looks like. If you see a flat line, that’s useful information too — it tells you where to focus next.

Not sure where your own site stands? Start with our free AI Search Readiness Audit Checklist — a self-serve rundown of the same technical and AEO signals we check on client sites. Ready to go deeper? Want someone checking your AI-visibility reporting monthly instead of quarterly? We’ll walk through your Search Console data — including this Generative AI report — and show you what it means for your site. → Book a paid consultation with Waqar on Upwork (from $25 / 30 min)

About Alneeko

Alneeko Technologies is a Technical SEO, AEO, and GEO agency for e-commerce brands. We publish our research in the open, using our own site as a live testing ground before we bring findings to clients.