B
Evidence Grade B
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under review
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6%
6% -- mention share for www.google.com (June 2026)
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Evidence graded
Value
6%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
June 2026
Entity
Sample Size
3,000,000
Evidence Quality
B
Strong, reliable evidence
Sourced from a well-regarded research firm or industry leader with transparent methodology and a reasonably large sample.
Single source - not yet corroborated
Score breakdown
Extraction
95
Source Trust
90
Citation Chain
90
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
76
Source
Ahrefs
Primary
Tier A
https://ahrefs.com/blog/most-cited-domains-ai-overviews/ ↗
Source Article
The 50 Most-Cited Websites in Google AI Overviews (June 2026)
AI Overviews are the AI-generated summaries that now sit above traditional Google results — and their scale is staggering. Google says they reach over 2 billion monthly users across more than 200 countries, roughly a quarter of everyone on Earth. When a domain gets cited here, it’s being surfaced to…
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Ahrefs
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Methodology
Tracked citations across over 3 million US queries.
Methodology documented
Segmentation
Channelcommon_crawl
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www.google.com: 6% mention share. Source: Ahrefs (June 2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/google-citation-share-2026
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