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52% -- ai citation share increase for Hostinger (2026)
Hostinger saw a 52% increase in AI citation share after optimizing 100 pages for machine readability.
- Based on an internal 3-month experiment on 100 pages
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52%
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Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
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Sample Size
100
Evidence Quality
B
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Extraction
50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Hostinger
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Tier C
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Methodology
Hostinger three-month experiment optimizing 100 pages for machine readability (answer-first intros, question-based headings, schema markup, llms.txt); AI citation share rose from 3.1% to 4.7%
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