B
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25%
25% -- ai overview citation rate for Sites ranking #1 in Google blue links (2025)
Sites ranking #1 in Google blue links are used as a source in AI Overviews approximately 25% of the time.
- The source notes this is approximate ('about 25% of the time').
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25%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2025
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Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
trecdigital.co.uk
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Tier C
https://www.trecdigital.co.uk/google-ai-mode/ ↗
Source Article
Google AI Mode | GEO Plan | TREC Digital Milton Keynes
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Google has just launched AI Mode across the UK this week, powered by Gemini 2.5 – and I can tell you, this changes everything. After years of optimising for the familiar blue links, we’re now facing a conversational AI experien…
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trecdigital.co.uk
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Sites ranking #1 in Google blue links: 25% ai overview citation rate. Source: trecdigital.co.uk (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/rank1-sites-cited-ai-overviews-25pct
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