Short version: Amazon does not publish a "good" click-through rate, and the averages you find online mix ad types, placements and categories. Judge your CTR against the market for the same query instead. In Search Query Performance, compare your impression share to your click share. A click share far below your impression share means the main image, title, price or rating is losing the click.
You search "what is a good click-through rate on Amazon" and get a number. 0.3%. 1%. 5%. Every source gives a different one, because CTR depends on where the impression happened. A Sponsored Products ad on page two and an organic result at position one do not share a benchmark. This guide covers what CTR is, where to see it, how to judge yours without an invented benchmark, and the four fields that move it.
What click-through rate means on Amazon
Click-through rate is clicks divided by impressions. An impression is one time your product appeared in a results list. A click is a shopper opening your detail page from it. If 1,000 shoppers see your listing and 20 click, CTR is 2%.
CTR measures the results list only. It says nothing about what happens after the click. A low CTR is a problem with what shoppers see before they click. A normal CTR with few sales is a detail-page problem, covered in our listing optimization guide.
Where to see your CTR
| Report | Covers | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon Ads console | Paid impressions and clicks | By campaign, keyword, search term and placement. Not organic. |
| Search Query Performance | Per-query impressions and clicks, with your brand's share | In Brand Analytics. Requires Brand Registry. Our SQP guide walks through the columns. |
Read each report's column definitions before you compare numbers across them. A rate in one report is not guaranteed to use the same denominator as a rate in the other. Share columns avoid the problem, which is why the method below uses them.
What is a good CTR? Use the market, not a number
We found no category CTR benchmark published by Amazon. Figures on agency blogs and tool pages disagree, rarely say which placement they cover, and do not match your category. A good CTR is one at or above what other listings get on the same query.
Search Query Performance gives you that comparison without a benchmark:
- Export the report for your top queries by search volume.
- For each query, put your impression share next to your click share.
- Click share roughly equal to impression share: your CTR matches the market's. Click share well below impression share: shoppers see you and pick someone else.
Require enough impressions before you trust a gap. A query with a few dozen impressions swings on one or two clicks.
Query A, "insulated water bottle 32 oz": impression share 9%, click share 2%. Shoppers see you almost as often as the leaders and click you a fifth as often. This is a CTR problem.
Query B, "stainless steel water bottle": impression share 6%, click share 5%. Proportional. Leave it alone.
Query A gets the work. Search it as a shopper and compare your tile to the three above it.
The four fields that move CTR
A results-list tile shows a small set of fields. These are the levers, in the order we would check them. The order is our judgment, not an Amazon statement.
1. Main image
It is the largest element on the tile. Check that the product fills the frame, reads at thumbnail size, and shows the feature the query asks for (the "32 oz" in the example). Compare against the tiles above you, not against your own gallery. The image requirements guide covers what Amazon allows in the main slot.
2. Title
The results list shows only the start of the title. Put the product type and the attribute the query contains first. Amazon's 75-character title limit applies from 2026-07-27, so the opening words carry most of the title. See Amazon title optimization.
3. Price
The tile shows your price beside competitors' prices. A price well above the tiles around you costs clicks regardless of image or title. The SQP report includes median price columns, so you can check this in the data.
4. Star rating and review count
Both show on the tile. A rating below the tiles around you lowers CTR. The fix is a product or review-quality fix, not a copy change.
Bullets, A+ Content and secondary images do not appear on the tile. They affect conversion after the click, so changing them will not move CTR.
Checklist: fix a low-CTR query
- Pull the query's impression share and click share. Confirm the gap on enough impressions.
- Search the query on Amazon. Screenshot the top five tiles beside yours.
- Compare the four fields one by one. Write down where you are the outlier.
- Change one field at a time. Changing image, title and price together hides which one worked.
- Re-check the same query's shares in a later report period. Leave a few weeks between the change and the verdict.
CTR versus conversion
The two rates point at different fixes.
Low CTR, normal conversion
- Fix the tile: main image, title start, price, rating
- Result: more visits from the same impressions
Normal CTR, low conversion
- Fix the detail page: bullets, A+ Content, secondary images
- Result: more sales from the same visits
Find the queries where you are seen but not clicked
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Start free trial →Frequently asked questions
What is a good click-through rate on Amazon?
There is no single number. Amazon does not publish a category CTR benchmark that we could find, and third-party figures vary widely by ad type, placement and category. The reliable test is relative: compare your click share to your impression share on the same query in Search Query Performance. If your click share is well below your impression share, your CTR is below the market's for that query.
What is the average click-through rate on Amazon?
No first-party average exists that we could verify. Published averages come from agencies and tools, mix organic and Ads traffic, and disagree with each other. Treat any single average as a prompt to investigate, not a target.
How do I find my click-through rate on Amazon?
For ads, the Amazon Ads console reports impressions, clicks and CTR per campaign, keyword and search term. For organic search, Brand Analytics Search Query Performance (Brand Registry required) shows impressions and clicks per query, plus your brand's share of each. Check each report's own column definitions before comparing numbers across reports.
What affects click-through rate on Amazon?
The fields a shopper sees in the results list: main image, title, price, star rating and review count. Detail-page content (bullets, A+ Content, secondary images) does not affect CTR, because the shopper has not clicked yet.
Does a higher CTR improve my Amazon ranking?
Amazon does not publish how click data feeds ranking, so we do not claim it. What is certain: a click is the step before a purchase, and a low-CTR listing spends Ads budget on impressions that never become visits.