B
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Recent
25.7%
25.7% -- url recency differential for URLs cited in AI search results (2025)
URLs cited in AI search results are 25.7% more recent than URLs found in traditional search.
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25.7%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2025
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Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
60
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Digitaloft
Primary
Tier C
https://www.fortop.it/en/blog/market-insights/angle-not-topic/ ↗
Source Article
Angle, not topic: the content LLMs actually cite | Fortop
Angle, not topic
Why your content feeds your competitors in the era of LLMs
65% of B2B content is never consumed by buyers. A figure that has been circulating for years and surprises in the same way every time, as if the cause were still a mystery. It isn’t.
Content that doesn’t work usually doesn’t…
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Digitaloft
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Methodology
Attributed to Digitaloft, 2025
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Segmentation
Industrymarketing
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URLs cited in AI search results: 25.7% url recency differential. Source: Digitaloft (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/ai-cited-urls-recency-2025
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/ai-cited-urls-recency-2025" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>25.7%</strong> -- url recency differential for URLs cited in AI search results<br><small>Source: Digitaloft (2025) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/ai-cited-urls-recency-2025" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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