{
  "slug": "market-share-standings-rank",
  "name": "Your rank in the standings",
  "aliases": [
    "Position in the standings",
    "Where we sit vs tracked rivals"
  ],
  "definition": "Your ordinal position among the tracked domains of a segment when they are sorted by CTR-modeled search market share, highest first.",
  "category": "Search market share",
  "type": "rank",
  "unit": "position among tracked domains (1 = highest share)",
  "direction": "lower-better",
  "verification": "verified",
  "calculation": "The standings are built by collecting each roster row's share value, dropping the columns that are not finite numbers, sorting descending on the PRECISE value rather than the rounded one, and marking the row the roster flags as yours. Your position is read off that ordered list. The ordering is pinned in code; the ordinal itself is not emitted as its own field, so it is read from the returned standings rather than quoted from the payload.",
  "aggregation": "Not aggregatable, a position is per period and per slice. Track it as a sequence of positions, never an average position.",
  "grain": "One segment × period × medium.",
  "dimensions": [
    "intent",
    "brand",
    "keyword",
    "page",
    "country",
    "device"
  ],
  "requiredFilters": [
    "segment_id",
    "selected_period",
    "source_medium"
  ],
  "sources": [
    "rank-tracking"
  ],
  "reports": [
    "monthly-executive-search-report",
    "search-market-share-report"
  ],
  "skills": [
    "market-share-review",
    "competitor-deep-dive",
    "monthly-exec-review"
  ],
  "verbs": [
    "market_share_overview",
    "market_share_query"
  ],
  "rungs": [
    "R2"
  ],
  "levers": [
    "L2"
  ],
  "questions": [
    "Where do we sit in the standings for this segment?",
    "Did we move up or down against tracked rivals?",
    "Who is immediately ahead of us?"
  ],
  "interpretation": "A coarse read that hides distance: moving from fourth to third can mean a tenth of a share point. Pair it with the leader gap, which carries the magnitude the position discards.",
  "caveats": [
    "The denominator is the tracked roster, not the market, a position of 3 means third among the domains this segment tracks.",
    "The order can disagree with the displayed shares: two domains rounded to the same tenth still hold distinct positions, decided by digits the card does not show.",
    "Roster changes move the position without anything changing in the results pages.",
    "The ordinal is derived from the returned standings; the payload carries the sorted list and your own row, not a rank integer."
  ],
  "freshness": "~1 day behind, Daily observation, available the following day.",
  "failureModes": [
    "Narrating a position change as a market move when the roster gained or lost a domain.",
    "Averaging positions across weeks, which discards the share distances that made them."
  ],
  "notSameAs": [
    {
      "slug": "avg-rank-vs-competitors",
      "why": "That is a search-results position on keywords; this is a position in a share league table. Different explores, different meaning of the number one."
    },
    {
      "slug": "market-share-leader",
      "why": "The leader names which domain sits first; this names where you sit in the same ordering."
    }
  ],
  "related": [
    "search-market-share",
    "gap-to-leader",
    "market-share-leader"
  ],
  "workflows": [],
  "lastVerified": "2026-08-04"
}