AI resume screening tool statistics, October 2026

Four numbers for October 2026, each counted over the month. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 41 AI resume screening tool sites I track. Tap one for the details.

• Visits from Google2.8Mvisits-54% vs a year ago
• Google searches880searchesfor "ai resume screening"
• Most visited site595KvisitsiCIMS, 21% of all
• Expected in November2.7Mvisits-3% vs last month

• 2,819,897 Google visits went to the 41 AI resume screening tool sites RankDude tracks in October 2026, 54% fewer than a year earlier.
• Shrinking: the AI resume screening tool market is shrinking.
• 880 searches a month for “ai resume screening” worldwide, 36% of them in the US (Google Ads, 12-month average).
• 21% of all visits go to iCIMS, the most-visited AI resume screening tool; the five most-visited take 69.7%.
• 30.6% of visits come from the United States, followed by India, the United Kingdom and Canada.
• 2,745,154 visits expected in November 2026, likely between 2.2M and 3.2M.

Source: DataForSEO, Google Ads and Google Trends, October 2026, compiled by RankDude.

Shrinking.

Over two years, visits went from 5.3M in November 2024 to a high of 8.9M in January 2025, and stand at 2.8M in October 2026. Five sites take 69.7% of visits, so one ranking change at the top moves the whole line.

Visits, year on year

-54%

Visits, last six months

-46%

Name searches, US

+2%

Busiest month (2 years)

January 2025, 8.9M visits

Miles explains

I only call a market growing when visits and name searches agree. Here visits are down and name searches are level, so they don’t agree yet.

Open the AI resume screening tool market demand page

“ai resume screening” is searched about 880 times a month worldwide, 36% of it in the US.

Google Trends barely registered “ai resume screening” until January 2025; interest then climbed to its peak in May 2026. Americans make 36% of the searches but only 30.6% of the visits, because the big sites also draw heavily from India, United Kingdom and Canada.

Searches a month, US

320

Google Trends now

17/100 -56%

Five-year peak

79/100 in May 2026

Miles explains

Google Trends shows direction, not volume. Interest is lower than a year ago, and I only trust that when the visits move the same way.

Open the AI resume screening tool search trends page

Fewer visits than a year ago, name searches holding steady, and the next six months look like a slide.

The fastest growers over the year, X0PA AI, Metaview and Skima AI, grew fastest, mostly from a smaller base. The losers, led by Eightfold AI, lost most of their search visits (-94%).

Visits vs September 2026

-13%

Biggest gain this month

Phenom +35%

Biggest loss this month

Humanly -72%

Miles explains

Huge percentages like X0PA AI’s +283% usually mean one site won a big Google ranking from a small start. I watch whether it holds the next month.

Open the AI resume screening tool monthly analysis page

I expect November 2026 to be about the same as October 2026, and the next six months to look down.

The forecast carries the level of recent months forward, not the trend line, because that version missed least when tested on past months.

Expected in November 2026

2,745,154 visits

Likely range

2.2M to 3.2M

Expected in May 2027

2.4M -13%

Past forecasts in range

3 of 6 months

Miles explains

Read the range, not the single number: tested on the last 6 months, my method landed inside its range 3 times.

Open the AI resume screening tool monthly forecast page

The most visited is iCIMS, with 595,429 visits a month, 21% of all visits.

iCIMS and Workable together hold 41% of all visits. Below the top five the market is long and thin: the other 36 sites share 30.3%.

Top five sites

69.7% of all visits

Visits from the US

30.6%

Largest markets outside the US

India, United Kingdom and Canada

Sites tracked

41

Miles explains

iCIMS alone has 21% of all visits. That’s a big lead, but one Google update can close it fast.

Open the AI resume screening tool industry report page

Yes. Every number on these pages comes from two CSV files, free to download.

sites.csv has one row per site: its Google US position for “ai resume screening”, Tranco rank, Chrome UX tier, visits from Google worldwide and in the US, name searches, Domain Rating and referring domains, with the month each figure covers. market.csv has the monthly totals across the tracked sites: visits worldwide and in the US, name searches and referring domains. Blanks mean the source had no figure, never zero.

Cite as: Miles Foster, “AI Resume Screening Tool Statistics, October 2026”, RankDude, https://rankdude.ai/statistics/ai-resume-screening