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82.5%

82.5% -- share of ai citations to nested pages for AI search citations (2025)

Name: Share Of AI Citations To Nested Pages Statistics
Creator: Lighthouse Intelligence
Published: 2026-09-24

2025 · n=8,000 · Omnius

82.5% of AI citations linked to deeply nested content pages rather than homepages.

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82.5%

Unit

Percentage

Data Vintage

2025

Entity

AI search citations

Sample Size

8,000

Evidence Quality

Strong, reliable evidence

Sourced from a well-regarded research firm or industry leader with transparent methodology and a reasonably large sample.

61/100 confidence

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Omnius Primary Tier B

https://rankenstein.pro/blog/prompt-based-vs-crawl-based-ai-for-seo ↗

Confidence: 53/100 Vintage: 2025 Channel: Deep Crawl

Source Article

Prompt-Based vs Crawl-Based AI for SEO: What the Data Shows

Prompt-Based vs Crawl-Based AI for SEO: What the Data Shows RAG cuts AI hallucinations from 40% to under 6% (JMIR Cancer, 2025). What Cloudflare and Chroma research shows about prompt-based vs crawl-based AI for SEO. TL;DR: RAG reduces AI hallucination rates from 40% to under 6% (JMIR Cancer, 2025).…

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Methodology

Omnius GEO Industry Report analysis of 8,000 AI citations

Methodology documented

Segmentation

Industrymarketing

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AI search citations: 82.5% share of ai citations to nested pages. Source: Omnius (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/ai-citations-nested-pages-2025

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