Years in Title Tags: Only 4.1% of Top Results Say 2026

    4.1% of 29,396 top-5 ranking title tags include 2026, and 4.8% of 177,259 titles Google displays in the top 20 do.

    Top-5 title tags containing 2026, by vertical
    Software17.7%
    Home9.9%
    Finance6.7%
    Insurance6.6%
    All verticals4.1%
    Recipes0.7%
    SaaS comparisons0.6%
    Health0.1%

    Source: PageSpeed Matters. Title tags of top-5 ranking pages for 10,019 US keywords, Oct 2026.

    Measured in October; the share of dated titles changes through the year.

    Source: Years in Title Tags: Only 4.1% of Top Results Say 2026 - PageSpeed Matters