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86% -- share of high ranking pages with ai generated content for Google search results pages (2025)
Over 86% of high-ranking pages contained some level of AI-generated content according to an Ahrefs study.
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Value
86%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2025
Entity
Sample Size
600,000
Evidence Quality
B
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Extraction
50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Ahrefs
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Tier C
https://prebodigital.co.za/blog/straider/safe-programmatic-seo-how-to-scale-without-risk/ ↗
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Ahrefs
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From Ahrefs study of 600,000 pages, as cited in vendor blog
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Google search results pages: 86% share of high ranking pages with ai generated content. Source: Ahrefs (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/high-ranking-pages-ai-content-share
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/high-ranking-pages-ai-content-share" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>86%</strong> -- share of high ranking pages with ai generated content for Google search results pages<br><small>Source: Ahrefs (2025) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/high-ranking-pages-ai-content-share" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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