I remembered that we started collecting this data a few weeks ago, so ran a query to see what it looks like. While somewhat expected, i found the results rather surprising still. The top 3 dominate click through's, as the literature suggests. There is also a very strong drop-off going to the second page (position 21). Our users do not use search pagination.
This data is an 0.5% sample of desktop users clicking through on results shown in the Special:Search page. It does not include clickthroughs from the autocomplete. +----------------+--------+---------+ | event_position | count | percent | +----------------+--------+---------+ | 1 | 154150 | 64.26% | | 2 | 34214 | 14.26% | | 3 | 16213 | 6.76% | | 4 | 9687 | 4.04% | | 5 | 5963 | 2.49% | | 6 | 3912 | 1.63% | | 7 | 3073 | 1.28% | | 8 | 1985 | 0.83% | | 9 | 1720 | 0.72% | | 10 | 1276 | 0.53% | | 11 | 1214 | 0.51% | | 12 | 924 | 0.39% | | 13 | 681 | 0.28% | | 14 | 832 | 0.35% | | 15 | 720 | 0.30% | | 16 | 633 | 0.26% | | 17 | 509 | 0.21% | | 18 | 598 | 0.25% | | 19 | 634 | 0.26% | | 20 | 744 | 0.31% | | 21 | 49 | 0.02% | | 22 | 60 | 0.03% | | 23 | 34 | 0.01% | | 24 | 34 | 0.01% | | 25 | 34 | 0.01% | +----------------+--------+---------+
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