Research
We count what Singapore businesses actually publish and what their customers actually search, then write down the method and the limits. Every figure below comes with its sample size and the date it was collected.
Quote the figure with its base and date, for example “28 of 109 pages, SingRank, 13 September 2026”, and link to the study page rather than to this list. Each study has its own method and limits section and a ready-made citation line at the end. Our studies name no business. Corrections and challenges to any number are welcome through our contact page.
We visit other businesses' public websites with an honest, identified crawler and count what is there.
We checked 60 Singapore agency pages selling GEO, AEO or AI SEO on 2 Oct 2026. 0 showed a dated before-and-after AI citation with prompts. What to ask for.
Published 2 October 2026 · Sample: 60 Singapore agency pages selling GEO, AEO or AI SEO, from 12 searches
We checked 219 Singapore service-business websites in 20 industries on 25 September 2026: 99 of 211 showed a price. Maid agencies 1 of 15, plumbers 9 of 11.
Published 25 September 2026 · Sample: 219 service-business websites, 20 industries
We read the robots.txt of 219 Singapore service-business websites on 25 September 2026: 207 of 214 reachable sites had a valid file; 1 of 207 blocked GPTBot.
Published 25 September 2026 · Sample: 219 service-business websites, 207 valid robots.txt files
We measured 10 Singapore car workshop sites on 24 September 2026: three would not serve a page, two robots.txt files were not robots.txt, none showed a price.
Published 24 September 2026 · Sample: 10 car workshop websites
We measured 10 Singapore moving company websites on 22 September 2026: 6 of 8 readable pages showed a price, but only 3 put a real question in a heading.
Published 22 September 2026 · Sample: 10 moving company websites
We measured 10 ranked Singapore tuition centre pages on 21 September 2026: 3 returned a bot check instead of the page, and only 3 of 7 showed a lesson fee.
Published 21 September 2026 · Sample: 10 ranked tuition centre pages
We ran 8 Singapore F&B searches on 21 September 2026: just 11 of 147 results were a restaurant's own website, and only 3 of 9 homepages showed a price.
Published 20 September 2026 · Sample: 147 F&B search results, 9 homepages
We counted 60 Singapore search results on 19 September 2026: 28 were not businesses in the industry.
Published 19 September 2026 · Sample: 60 Singapore search results
We measured 10 Singapore renovation and interior design websites on 19 September 2026: 9 of 10 scored under 90 on mobile and 41% of images had no alt text.
Published 19 September 2026 · Sample: 10 renovation and interior design websites
We measured 9 Singapore corporate services firms' sites on 20 September 2026. Only 1 of 9 showed a fee, and 6 of 9 used neither of ACRA's two job titles.
Published 19 September 2026 · Sample: 9 corporate services firms' websites
We checked 109 local business pages across Singapore's 5 regions: 28 passed all three AI-readiness checks, and none blocked AI crawlers.
Published 13 September 2026 · Sample: 109 local business pages, 5 regions
We group Google's own search suggestions for a trade by what the searcher wants.
Three car-repair seeds, 142 Google suggestions, Singapore market. Price dominates, "near me" beats "Singapore", and the driver with a fault names neither.
Published 24 September 2026 · Sample: 142 Google suggestions from 3 car-repair seeds
We grouped 86 Singapore mover search suggestions by intent on 22 September 2026: 34 asked about price and just 17 asked who is best. Price wins two to one.
Published 22 September 2026 · Sample: 86 mover search suggestions
We grouped 42 Singapore tuition search suggestions by intent on 21 September 2026: 10 named one centre and asked for reviews, and only 1 asked about fees.
Published 21 September 2026 · Sample: 42 tuition search suggestions
We read 199 Singapore food search suggestions on 21 September 2026. 14 of 29 buffet-price searches named one restaurant, and 10 of 40 said "near me".
Published 20 September 2026 · Sample: 199 food search suggestions
We grouped 113 Singapore renovation searches by intent on 19 September 2026. Only 7 of 40 were choosing a contractor. Permits and price beat them both.
Published 19 September 2026 · Sample: 113 renovation search suggestions
We grouped 38 Singapore accounting and corporate secretarial searches by intent on 20 September 2026. Only 1 said near me, and 5 were not from buyers at all.
Published 19 September 2026 · Sample: 38 accounting and corporate secretarial searches
Aggregated, anonymised Search Console data from the sites we manage.
We logged 145 SEO changes on singrank.com. Of 34 old enough to judge, 0 passed a significance test. Here is why, and how to test a change on your own site.
Published 2 October 2026 · Sample: 145 SEO changes logged on singrank.com, 34 old enough to judge
5 of our top 300 Search Console queries (2 Jul to 29 Sep 2026) were questions. Three full-sentence ones sat on page one; keywords averaged position 46.3.
Published 2 October 2026 · Sample: top 300 queries in singrank.com's own Search Console
Original research from 59,570 query-months of Search Console data: the CTR inversion at position 1, the visibility cliff at position 11, and zero-click reality.
Published 20 August 2026 · Sample: 59,570 query-months of Search Console data
We put fixed buyer questions to AI answer engines and count what they cite, by source type.
26 of 37 Singapore service searches on 2 October 2026 showed a Google AI Overview; only 1 of 12 short shopping searches did. 56 of 202 cited sources came from sites not on page one.
Published 2 October 2026 · Sample: 37 google.com.sg service searches, 4 trades (sample; 120 planned, stopped by CAPTCHA)
We asked Perplexity and ChatGPT 30 Singapore SEO buyer questions, 2 Oct 2026: 194 of 341 citations were agency pages. Forums and news: 0 in buyer answers.
Published 2 October 2026 · Sample: 341 citations from 39 answers to 30 buyer questions, Perplexity and ChatGPT
Sourced statistics from other publishers and our own studies, each dated.
20+ SEO and AI-search statistics for Singapore in 2026, every number sourced and dated: CTR by position, the visibility cliff, AI citation research, pricing.
Published 20 August 2026 · Sample: 20+ sourced statistics
Website studies use a crawler that identifies itself, reads each site’s robots.txt and waits between requests. Search results come from SingRank’s self-hosted metasearch, which blends other engines and is not Google’s ranking; every study says so. Search-demand studies use Google’s own autocomplete suggestions for the Singapore market. Search Console figures are aggregated across the sites we manage and never identify a client. Our full standards are in the editorial policy.
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