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Click-through rate is the share of the people who saw your link that actually clicked it. It is one number, but it quietly decides how much traffic you get from a given position in search, a given ad placement or a given email send. This calculator takes your clicks and impressions and returns the CTR, along with a plainer version of the same figure: how many clicks you are winning per thousand times the link was shown.
The formula is clicks divided by impressions, multiplied by 100. If a search result picked up 240 clicks from 8,000 impressions, that is 240 divided by 8,000, which is 0.03, times 100, a 3 percent click-through rate. The same maths works for an ad, an email or a social post: count the people who acted, divide by the people who were shown the thing, turn it into a percentage.
The part that trips people up is what an impression really is. An impression is a single showing of the link, not a guaranteed human eyeball. A search result sitting at the bottom of page one still logs an impression every time it appears, even when almost nobody scrolls that far. That is why the same page can look like it has a weak CTR when the truth is that most of those impressions never had a fair chance of a click.
Two things move CTR more than anything else: where you show up and what your snippet says. Position is the bigger lever, since higher placements simply get seen first, but you do not always control that in the short term. The wording you do control. A title that mirrors what the person searched for, a description that adds a concrete reason to click, and rich results like ratings or FAQ snippets where they genuinely apply all lift the rate at the same position.
A high CTR is not the finish line. It gets people onto the page, but whether they convert is a separate question with its own rate. Watch the two together. A strong CTR paired with a weak conversion rate usually means the click promised something the page did not deliver, and that gap is worth closing before you chase more clicks.
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