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70%
70% -- share of ai traffic logged as direct for AI referral traffic (web analytics attribution) (2026)
70% of AI traffic is logged as direct traffic in web analytics.
- GA4 still has no AI channel in 2026
- Attribution is broken across analytics tools
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70%
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2026
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75
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60
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20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Kevin Indig (Growth Memo)
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Tier B
https://nextconf.airops.com/sessions/winners-and-losers-of-the-ai-disruption-of-search ↗
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Winners & Losers of the AI Search Disruption · AirOps Next
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Winners & Losers of the AI Disruption of Search
Kevin Indig presents fresh research on what's actually happening to traffic, rankings, and revenue as AI search reshapes discovery.
Which companies are quietly winning this transition, which ones are…
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Kevin Indig (Growth Memo)
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Attribution-broken benchmark; context notes GA4 still has no AI channel in 2026.
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AI referral traffic (web analytics attribution): 70% share of ai traffic logged as direct. Source: Kevin Indig (Growth Memo) (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/ai-traffic-logged-as-direct
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