In Similarweb’s July 2026 ranking of the world’s top-visited websites, Google Gemini fell four places to rank 16, down from May. ChatGPT held firm at rank 5, Claude moved up one spot to 33, DeepSeek dropped 13 places to 92, Grok slid 8 places to 150, and Perplexity tumbled 61 places to rank 345. Google had announced yesterday that Gemini had touched 1 billion monthly users. Gemini’s traffic share dipped in the most recent monthly reading, the first backward move since the middle of last year, after climbing from 9.4% of generative AI traffic in July 2025 to over 27% earlier this year. Earlier surges traced to the viral launch of the Nano Banana image model and the release of Gemini 3 Pro, with Nano Banana Pro following in November. Sundar Pichai told developers at Google I/O in May that Gemini 3.5 Pro would ship the following month, but it didn’t. Google spent July retraining the model after it reportedly missed internal coding benchmarks, then put out Gemini 3.6 Flash as a stand-in. Gemini 3.6 Flash scored identically to its predecessor on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, and a Semi Analysis report claimed Google has quietly shelved 3.5 Pro in favor of pushing resources toward Gemini 4. Executives at OpenAI and Meta publicly mocked Google once Gemini 4’