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# Search Console Clicks, Impressions, CTR, and Position

Clicks, impressions, [click-through rate](/glossary/click-through-rate-ctr/), and average position are the core Search Console performance metrics.

## Why it matters

Together they help separate demand, visibility, snippet, and ranking changes. No single metric explains a traffic movement by itself.

## How to use it

Read them as a pattern: clicks with impressions, CTR with position, and every metric within a query, page, country, device, search type, and date context.

## Limits and interpretation

An impression and position follow Google’s reporting rules; average position is the topmost result from the property in the selected grouping, not a stable rank for every user.

## Common mistakes

Calling an impression a page view; comparing CTR across very different positions; treating position 8.1 as a universal rank; ignoring search features and query mix.

## Questions people also ask

[What counts as an impression?](/faq/)[How is average position calculated?](/faq/)[Why can clicks fall while position stays stable?](/faq/)

## Where GSC Pulse fits

GSC Pulse uses this concept inside a decision workflow and links to the underlying evidence instead of presenting the term as a decorative metric.

[Primary documentation](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7042828)Source

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