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48%

48% -- time on site growth for AI-referred retail traffic (2026)

2026  · Adobe

Time spent on websites by AI-referred traffic increased by 48%.

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AI-referred retail traffic
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https://digitalmarketingdesk.co.uk/lessons-from-adobes-ai-traffic-report/ ↗
Confidence: 53/100 Vintage: 2026 Channel: Deep Crawl
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Lessons From Adobe’s AI Traffic Report
Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing how people discover products online, and new data from Adobe suggests that AI-generated traffic may now be performing far better than many businesses expected. According to Adobe’s 2026 Q2 AI Traffic Report, visitors arriving at retail websites through AI …
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AI-referred retail traffic: 48% time on site growth. Source: Adobe (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/ai-traffic-time-on-site-2026
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/ai-traffic-time-on-site-2026" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>48%</strong> -- time on site growth for AI-referred retail traffic<br><small>Source: Adobe (2026) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/ai-traffic-time-on-site-2026" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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