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60%

60% -- share of ai cited urls on www host for AI search engines (2026)

Name: Share Of AI Cited Urls On Www Host Statistics
Creator: Lighthouse Intelligence
Published: 2026-09-30

2026 · n=46,700 · AmICited

60% (or 60.0% / 28,011 of 46,700) of AI-cited URLs are on a www. host.

Reflects conventions across the web rather than an AI-specific preference
Prompt set skews towards SaaS, ecommerce, and support topics

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Last verified: 2026-09-30 · How we verify data →

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Value

60%

Unit

Percentage

Data Vintage

2026

Entity

AI search engines

Sample Size

46,700

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

Single source - not yet corroborated

Score breakdown

Extraction

Source Trust

Citation Chain

Independence

Methodology

Freshness

Source

AmICited Primary Tier A

https://www.amicited.com/da/data-reports/do-ai-search-engines-cite-www-or-subdomain-urls/ ↗

Confidence: 57/100 Vintage: 2026 Channel: Common Crawl

Source Article

Citerer AI-søgemaskiner www- eller underdomæne-URL'er?

Original Research

AmICited · Original study ↗

Methodology

28,011 of 46,700 cited URLs used www.; direct counts from URL strings

Methodology documented

Trend Over Time

Period	Value	Change
2026 (current)	60%
2026 (current)	60%	0%

Segmentation

Industrymarketing

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AI search engines: 60% share of ai cited urls on www host. Source: AmICited (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/ai-cited-urls-www-host-share-2026

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