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40%
40% -- quarter over quarter traffic growth rate for LLM-referred e-commerce traffic (2026)
LLM-referred e-commerce traffic grew at a rate of 40% quarter-over-quarter across 329 brands.
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40%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
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Sample Size
329
Evidence Quality
B
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95
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60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Alhena AI
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Tier A
https://alhena.ai/blog/state-of-ai-commerce/ ↗
Source Article
AI in Ecommerce Statistics 2026: 329
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Alhena AI
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LLM-referred e-commerce traffic: 40% quarter over quarter traffic growth rate. Source: Alhena AI (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/llm-traffic-growth-40-qoq
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/llm-traffic-growth-40-qoq" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>40%</strong> -- quarter over quarter traffic growth rate for LLM-referred e-commerce traffic<br><small>Source: Alhena AI (2026) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/llm-traffic-growth-40-qoq" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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