Quarterly Benchmark

State of Google Ads

Q2 2026 Benchmark Report

Median performance across advertiser accounts, broken down by spend tier, campaign type, vertical, and device. Upload your Google Ads data in My Data to see how your account compares.

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Overall Performance

Account-wide benchmark metrics across the latest reporting quarter.

Start here to understand the account-wide baseline before drilling into the cuts that explain where performance is won or lost.

Performance metrics
Metric
Q2 2026
YoY
CTR
4.64%
8.6%
CVR
5.17%
3.6%
CPA
$41.57
2.6%
ROAS
557%
3.4%

Quarter-over-quarter progression

Q2 → Q3 2025
MetricBenchmarkCTR2.3%CVR0.8%CPA0.7%ROAS1.4%
Q3 → Q4 2025
MetricBenchmarkCTR5.0%CVR0.8%CPA5.2%ROAS1.8%
Q4 2025 → Q1 2026
MetricBenchmarkCTR5.8%CVR1.8%CPA5.2%ROAS1.9%
Q1 2026 → Q2 2026
MetricBenchmarkCTR0.2%CVR3.0%CPA3.2%ROAS3.8%

Lead Gen vs. Ecommerce

How performance differs between accounts optimizing for leads versus online sales.

This split tells you whether the optimization story is driven by lead quality or revenue efficiency, which changes what to fix next.

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CTR by segment, Q2 2026

Benchmark (Q2 2026)
Metric
Q2 2026
YoY
CTR
5.79%
5.6%
CVR
6.02%
4.6%
CPA
$49.45
4.2%

Quarter-over-quarter progression

Q2 → Q3 2025
MetricBenchmarkCTR4.1%CVR1.3%CPA0.7%
Q3 → Q4 2025
MetricBenchmarkCTR4.3%CVR2.4%CPA7.1%
Q4 2025 → Q1 2026
MetricBenchmarkCTR6.5%CVR4.0%CPA5.8%
Q1 2026 → Q2 2026
MetricBenchmarkCTR0.1%CVR3.4%CPA3.1%

By Spend Tier

Accounts are grouped by total quarterly ad spend: <$10K, $10K–$50K, and >$50K.

Spend tier helps separate scale effects from genuine efficiency advantages, so you can benchmark against the peers you actually resemble.

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CTR by segment, Q2 2026

Benchmark (Q2 2026)
<$10K benchmarks
Metric
Q2 2026
YoY
CTR
5.10%
7.8%
CVR
5.47%
4.4%
CPA
$41.90
2.5%
ROAS
511%
3.4%

Quarter-over-quarter progression

Q2 → Q3 2025
MetricBenchmarkCTR2.8%CVR0.9%CPA0.6%ROAS1.4%
Q3 → Q4 2025
MetricBenchmarkCTR4.7%CVR1.4%CPA5.7%ROAS2.4%
Q4 2025 → Q1 2026
MetricBenchmarkCTR6.0%CVR2.9%CPA5.7%ROAS0.4%
Q1 2026 → Q2 2026
MetricBenchmarkCTR0.0%CVR3.4%CPA3.2%ROAS4.3%

By Campaign Type

Search, Performance Max, Shopping, Demand Gen, and Display campaigns.

Campaign mix shows where budget is concentrated and whether the next opportunity is incremental reach, conversion quality, or efficiency.

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CTR by segment, Q2 2026

Benchmark (Q2 2026)
Search benchmarks
Metric
Q2 2026
YoY
CTR
8.88%
6.9%
CVR
5.20%
3.0%
CPA
$47.88
1.3%
ROAS
367%
3.0%

Quarter-over-quarter progression

Q2 → Q3 2025
MetricBenchmarkCTR4.3%CVR0.5%CPA1.3%ROAS2.6%
Q3 → Q4 2025
MetricBenchmarkCTR5.5%CVR2.7%CPA5.4%ROAS2.6%
Q4 2025 → Q1 2026
MetricBenchmarkCTR6.4%CVR1.9%CPA5.2%ROAS1.8%
Q1 2026 → Q2 2026
MetricBenchmarkCTR1.3%CVR2.9%CPA3.0%ROAS1.9%

By Vertical

Median performance across eight major industry verticals.

Vertical context prevents broad averages from hiding the market conditions that shape your achievable performance.

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CTR by segment, Q2 2026

Benchmark (Q2 2026)
Automotive benchmarks
Metric
Q2 2026
YoY
CTR
3.28%
8.5%
CVR
7.60%
12.1%
CPA
$25.46
5.7%
ROAS
479%
3.9%

Quarter-over-quarter progression

Q2 → Q3 2025
MetricBenchmarkCTR1.8%CVR3.2%CPA4.2%ROAS3.0%
Q3 → Q4 2025
MetricBenchmarkCTR5.7%CVR0.0%CPA2.9%ROAS0.8%
Q4 2025 → Q1 2026
MetricBenchmarkCTR3.9%CVR2.5%CPA6.1%ROAS4.0%
Q1 2026 → Q2 2026
MetricBenchmarkCTR1.4%CVR5.1%CPA2.0%ROAS4.3%

By Device

Desktop, mobile, and tablet performance side by side.

Device splits reveal where experience, intent, or landing-page friction may be creating avoidable conversion gaps.

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CTR by segment, Q2 2026

Benchmark (Q2 2026)
Desktop benchmarks
Metric
Q2 2026
YoY
CTR
4.65%
9.7%
CVR
5.22%
2.6%
CPA
$49.77
3.5%
ROAS
193%
8.2%

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