B
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14% -- share of ai overview citations from pages outside top 100 for Google AI Overviews (2025)
14% of citations in Google AI Overviews come from pages ranking outside the top 100 organic search results.
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Value
14%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2025
Entity
Sample Size
1,900,000
Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Ahrefs
Primary
Tier B
https://www.davidcosgrove.com/llm-citability-guide/ ↗
Source Article
LLM Citability: How to Get Your Content Cited by AI Search
LLM Citability: How to Get Your Content Cited by AI Search
LLM citability is how easily AI systems like Google’s AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude can extract, understand, and cite your content. The Get Cited Framework, developed by digital marketing strategist David Cosgrove, provides a…
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Ahrefs analysis of 1.9 million citations across 1 million AI Overviews
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Google AI Overviews: 14% share of ai overview citations from pages outside top 100. Source: Ahrefs (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/ai-overview-citations-outside-top-100
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/ai-overview-citations-outside-top-100" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>14%</strong> -- share of ai overview citations from pages outside top 100 for Google AI Overviews<br><small>Source: Ahrefs (2025) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/ai-overview-citations-outside-top-100" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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