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44% -- share of chatgpt citations from first third of page for ChatGPT citations (2025)
Approximately 44% of all ChatGPT citations are sourced from the first third of a webpage.
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- Based on a 2025 citation patterns study
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44%
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Percentage
Data Vintage
2025
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B
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Extraction
50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
quillly.com
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Tier C
https://quillly.com/blogs/llms-txt-explained ↗
Source Article
llms.txt Explained: What It Is and If You Need It
In 2024, a developer named Jeremy Howard proposed a tiny text file that was supposed to fix AI search. Two years later, more than 844,000 websites have added one. There's just one problem: the AI companies it was built for mostly ignore it.
That file is llms.txt. If you run a blog and you've watched…
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quillly.com
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2025 study of AI citation patterns, cited by Quillly
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ChatGPT citations: 44% share of chatgpt citations from first third of page. Source: quillly.com (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/chatgpt-citations-first-third-2025
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