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How the AI Overview Traffic-Loss Diagnostic gate works
How the AI Overview Traffic-Loss Diagnostic grades a page: six signals with the verdict set by the weakest, plus an interception-signature gate where impressions holding while clicks crater forces EVAPORATING — which is how a five-of-six-clean page still fails.
How the gate works
This tool grades one page's Search Console trend for AI-Overview click interception. Each of 6 signals is scored 0–2 from your own evidence; the verdict is the weakest one — and then it is run past a gate that can only make the verdict worse.
The 6 signals
| Signal | Role |
|---|---|
| Decoupling (clicks vs impressions) | signal |
| AI-Overview exposure | signal |
| Intent safety | signal |
| Citation presence | signal |
| Extractability | signal |
| Owned demand | signal |
The verdict bands
When impressions hold (down 5% or less) but clicks crater (down 25% or more), that decoupling is active AI-Overview interception - it forces EVAPORATING regardless of the score, even when no single signal scored 0.
In the worked sample 5 of 6 signals clean (weakest 1) and it still reads EVAPORATING — Impressions held at +3% while clicks fell 30% - the interception signature - so the page reads EVAPORATING even though only the decoupling signal is below clean. The one thing to fix first: Decoupling - the AI Overview is taking the visit; win the click back with owned demand and stronger extractability..
Common questions
Can a profile look clean on the AI Overview Traffic-Loss Diagnostic and still fail?
Yes. The verdict is the weakest of 6 signals, then run past a worsen-only gate — the Interception-signature gate — that can only make it worse. In the worked sample 5 of 6 signals clean (weakest 1) and it still reads EVAPORATING, because impressions held at +3% while clicks fell 30% - the interception signature - so the page reads EVAPORATING even though only the decoupling signal is below clean.
What is a worsen-only gate?
A dispositive rule that can only lower a verdict, never raise it. One fatal flaw overrides an otherwise-clean sheet, because a single disqualifying gap shouldn't hide behind everything that passed. The tool also names the one thing to fix first — here, "Decoupling - the AI Overview is taking the visit; win the click back with owned demand and stronger extractability.".
Diagnosis only - your own numbers, no live connection, scores no people. No ranking outcome is guaranteed.
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