B
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14%
14% -- ai overview citations from outside top100 share for Google AI Overviews (2026)
14% of AI Overview citations come from pages outside the top 100.
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Value
14%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
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/decks/get-cited-seo-playbook-for-ai-search.html ↗
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Ahrefs analysis of 1.9M citations across 1M AI Overviews.
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Google AI Overviews: 14% ai overview citations from outside top100 share. Source: Ahrefs (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/ai-overview-citations-outside-top100
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