B
Evidence Grade B
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87%
87% -- percentage of pages burying answer past word 200 for Pages audited on Orion GEO platform (2026)
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Value
87%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
Entity
Sample Size
1,000
Evidence Quality
B
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Sourced from a well-regarded research firm or industry leader with transparent methodology and a reasonably large sample.
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Score breakdown
Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Orion (useorion.ai)
Primary
Tier B
https://useorion.ai/blog/fix-1-quick-answer-blocks ↗
Source Article
Fix #1: Why the First 40 Words of Your Page Decide Whether AI Cites You
Fix #1: Why the First 40 Words of Your Page Decide Whether AI Cites You
A quick-answer block is a 40-60 word, plain-language answer placed at the top of a page in semantic HTML. ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity scan exactly that window when deciding which source to cite. Pages with a clean answer in …
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Orion (useorion.ai)
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Vendor-reported aggregate from 1,000+ GEO audits run on the Orion platform
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Pages audited on Orion GEO platform: 87% percentage of pages burying answer past word 200. Source: Orion (useorion.ai) (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/pages-bury-answer-past-word-200
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/pages-bury-answer-past-word-200" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>87%</strong> -- percentage of pages burying answer past word 200 for Pages audited on Orion GEO platform<br><small>Source: Orion (useorion.ai) (2026) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/pages-bury-answer-past-word-200" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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