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title: "Years in Title Tags: Only 4.1% of Top Results Say 2026 - PageSpeed Matters"
url: https://www.pagespeedmatters.com/resources/data-studies/years-in-title-tags
description: "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."
lang: en
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Years in Title Tags: Only 4.1% of Top Results Say 2026 (https://www.pagespeedmatters.com/resources/data-studies/years-in-title-tags)

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

Software 17.7%

Home 9.9%

Finance 6.7%

Insurance 6.6%

All verticals 4.1%

Recipes 0.7%

SaaS comparisons 0.6%

Health 0.1%

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 (https://www.pagespeedmatters.com/resources/data-studies/years-in-title-tags)