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94% -- share of ai overview cited domains with domain rating above 40 for Google AI Overviews (2025-08)
94% of domains cited in Google AI Overviews have a Domain Rating (DR) above 40.
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94%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2025-08
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Sample Size
10,000
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://indexcraft.in/ai-search/aeo-geo-new-website-strategy ↗
Source Article
AEO & GEO for New Websites: The 2026 Strategy Guide
If you launched a website in 2021, the game was: rank on page one, get clicked. In 2026, a big chunk of your audience never clicks at all — they get an AI-generated answer that synthesises three or four sources, shows citations, and calls it done. Google page one still matters, but it is no longer t…
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Ahrefs analysis of 10,000 AI Overview citations
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Google AI Overviews: 94% share of ai overview cited domains with domain rating above 40. Source: Ahrefs (2025-08). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/ai-overview-cited-domains-dr40
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/ai-overview-cited-domains-dr40" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>94%</strong> -- share of ai overview cited domains with domain rating above 40 for Google AI Overviews<br><small>Source: Ahrefs (2025-08) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/ai-overview-cited-domains-dr40" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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