B
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74% -- share of newly published pages containing ai generated content for newly published web pages (2026)
74% of 900,000 newly published pages analyzed by Ahrefs contained some AI-generated content.
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74%
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Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
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Sample Size
900,000
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B
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75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
60
Freshness
95
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Ahrefs
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Tier B
https://resollm.ai/blog/how-to-unstuck-your-b2b-funnel-at-the-finish-line/ ↗
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ReSO Blog | Inside the Future of AI Search & LLM Visibility
AI-generated content is already everywhere on the web. Ahrefs analysed 900,000 newly published pages and found that 74% contained some AI-generated content, while only 26% were classified as purely human-written.
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Ahrefs analysis of 900,000 newly published web pages
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newly published web pages: 74% share of newly published pages containing ai generated content. Source: Ahrefs (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/ai-generated-content-web-pages-ahrefs
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/ai-generated-content-web-pages-ahrefs" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>74%</strong> -- share of newly published pages containing ai generated content for newly published web pages<br><small>Source: Ahrefs (2026) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/ai-generated-content-web-pages-ahrefs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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