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Updated 11/02/2026 · next update 12/01/2026

AI Career Coach Industry Report, October 2026

Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude

The market▼ Shrinkingbut visits without Careerfittest are up 70% on a year ago

Visits, year on year, without Careerfittest
+70%
Visits, last six months
-4.9%
Name searches vs October 2025
-19%

Every key number on the AI career coach market for October 2026, dated and sourced, so you can quote it. The 5 sites I measure got about 6,032 visits from Google, about as many as a year ago.

Below: every figure in one table, the most-visited sites, who grew and who shrank and what I expect for November 2026.

Published 2 November 2026. Data from DataForSEO, Tranco and Ahrefs · free to quote with a link · not a ranking

AI career coach industry report: the key numbers for October 2026

Four numbers for October 2026. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 5 tracked sites. Tap one for the detail below.

1Every figure in one table

Measure

  • Search visits a month, all tracked sites, worldwide
    Value
    6,032
    Period and basis
    October 2026; -0.4% year on year, +20.5% month on month
  • Search visits a month, United States
    Value
    1,745
    Period and basis
    October 2026; -39.4% year on year
  • US share of worldwide search visits
    Value
    28.9%
    Period and basis
    October 2026
  • Brand-name searches a month, US, all counted brands
    Value
    1,340
    Period and basis
    September 2026; -19.3% against October 2025
  • Brand-name searches a month, worldwide
    Value
    6,730
    Period and basis
    September 2026; -33.0% against October 2025
  • Searches a month for “ai career coach”, US
    Value
    390
    Period and basis
    Google Ads, 12-month average
  • Searches a month for “ai career coach”, worldwide
    Value
    1,000
    Period and basis
    Google Ads, 12-month average
  • Referring domains, all tracked sites
    Value
    2,291
    Period and basis
    October 2026; first reading, no year-on-year figure yet
  • Tracked sites on Google's first page for “ai career coach”, US
    Value
    0
    Period and basis
    October 2026; positions 1 to 10
  • Tracked sites ranking anywhere for “ai career coach”, US
    Value
    0
    Period and basis
    October 2026; any position checked

2How many people visited

In plain words: These sites got about as many visits from Google as a year ago (-0.4%), and October 2026 was a better month than September 2026 (+21%). Careerfittest, which takes 49.4% of all the visits, lost more visits on its own than the whole market lost in a year. Without it, visits would be up 69.8% on a year ago instead of down 0.4%. Careerfittest gained more visits in October 2026 (1,336) than the whole market did (1,028); without it, visits to the other sites fell 9.2% on September 2026.

WorldVisits a month to AI career coach sites, worldwide

02.5K5.0K7.5K10.0KNov 24Jan 25Mar 25May 25Jul 25Sep 25Nov 25Jan 26Mar 26May 26Jul 26Oct 266.0K
Low 878High 9.3KAverage 5.0K
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Source: DataForSEO, Google search visits, all tracked sites.

Miles explains

Judge this line on the year, not the last dot: visits are about level with a year ago, and 35% below the January 2026 high. One site winning or losing a ranking can swing a single month a lot.

3How many people went looking

People typed a site’s name into Google 19% less often than in October 2025 (-19%). That is the loyalty number: nobody types a name by accident.

USSearches a month for the site names, United States

06251.3K1.9K2.5KOct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Sep 261.3K
Low 1.3KHigh 2.5KAverage 1.9K
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US searches a month for the counted brand names, summed. Google Ads data via DataForSEO, to September 2026.

Miles explains

Name searches are the number I trust most. They are down 19%, and nobody types a site’s name by accident, so this shows fewer people coming back on purpose.

4Where the visitors live

About 29 of every 100 visits come from the United States. Outside the US I measure 7 countries one by one; the largest is India.

USShare of visits that come from the US (%)

0255075100Nov 24Jan 25Mar 25May 25Jul 25Sep 25Nov 25Jan 26Mar 26May 26Jul 26Oct 2628.9
Low 26.4High 60.1Average 45
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US share of worldwide search visits, month by month.

Country

  • India
    Search visits a month
    539
    Share of the measured countries
    60.9%
  • Canada
    Search visits a month
    151
    Share of the measured countries
    17.1%
  • United Kingdom
    Search visits a month
    118
    Share of the measured countries
    13.3%
  • Australia
    Search visits a month
    36
    Share of the measured countries
    4.1%
  • France
    Search visits a month
    21
    Share of the measured countries
    2.4%
  • Germany
    Search visits a month
    18
    Share of the measured countries
    2%
  • Brazil
    Search visits a month
    2
    Share of the measured countries
    0.2%

Source: DataForSEO, October 2026.

Miles explains

The US is the biggest single market, but only about 29 in every 100 visits. India alone is 60.9% of the countries measured outside it.

5The most-visited sites

Careerfittest gets the most visits, Rocky.ai is the name people search for most, and no tracked site ranks on Google for “ai career coach”.

By worldwide search visits

By US brand-name searches

6Who grew and who shrank

No tracked site with at least 5,000 visits a year ago grew; none fell. Big swings are usually one site winning or losing one Google ranking.

Worldwide search visits, October 2026 against a year earlier; sites with at least 5,000 visits a year ago.

To cite this report: RankDude, “AI Career Coach Industry Report, October 2026”, published 2 November 2026, https://rankdude.ai/statistics/ai-career-coach/industry-report. Figures are estimates from the sources named beside them.