Voice Search Optimization Best Practices PHOTO: Adobe According to a July 2020 report from Perficient, 55% of those polled indicated that they use voice search on their smartphones to find answers to their questions. Combine that with a report on mobile usage from Statista that revealed that in the third quarter of 2020, mobile devices generated 50.81% of global website traffic, and you have an emerging paradigm for voice-enabled search. With voice search gaining momentum putting the focus on voice search optimization for your businesses websites is a smart move. The Evolution of Search The way we search the web has changed over the years. Previously, if we wanted to find the capital of Tennessee, we would type âTennessee capitalâ or some variant of that phrase into Google. If we wanted to know the temperature in Birmingham, England, we would type âtemperature Birmingham, England.â This is opposed to how one would request the same information by speaking, in which one would say âwhat is the temperature in Birmingham, England?â or âwhat is the capital of Tennessee?â