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66.18%
66.18% -- ai overview citation share for Top 20 domains (2025-08)
The top 20 domains collectively accounted for 66.18% of all AI Overview citations.
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Value
66.18%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2025-08
Entity
Sample Size
36,000,000
Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
digitalthriveai.com
Primary
Tier B
https://digitalthriveai.com/en-us/resources/seo/ai-overview-growth/ ↗
Source Article
Google's AI Overviews have fundamentally transformed how information flows from search engines to users. What began as an experimental feature appearing in just 6.49% of searches in January 2025 now dominates over 50% of all queries by October 2025. This explosive growth--representing nearly a 700% …
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digitalthriveai.com
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Analysis of 36M+ AI Overviews
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Top 20 domains: 66.18% ai overview citation share. Source: digitalthriveai.com (2025-08). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/top20-domains-citation-share
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