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78% -- ai referral traffic market share for ChatGPT (2025-04)
ChatGPT drives 78% of all AI referral traffic to websites globally.
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Value
78%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2025-04
Entity
Sample Size
63,987
Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
SE Ranking
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Tier B
https://searchsignal.online/research/ai-search-referrals-citations-2026 ↗
Source Article
2026 AI Search Referrals & Citations Benchmark | SearchSignal
2026 Benchmark Report: AI Search Referrals and Citations for SEO Agencies
AI platforms now send measurable visits to websites — and they also influence discovery without a click. This report aggregates published research from Conductor, Adobe Analytics, Cloudflare, SE Ranking, Ahrefs, BrightEdge, an…
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SE Ranking study of 63,987 sites across 250 countries
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ChatGPT: 78% ai referral traffic market share. Source: SE Ranking (2025-04). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/chatgpt-ai-referral-share-78
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