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Xibeijia Guan

Data Scientists at Ahrefs

Xibeijia Guan is a data scientist at Ahrefs with 7 years of experience in data science and analytics. She conducts in-depth analyses using Ahrefs data to find valuable insights and identify trends.

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Ryan Law

July 27, 2026

Content Marketing

Data & Studies

General SEO

Google Doesn’t Punish AI Content; It Punishes Bad Content (331k Pages Studied)

Louise Linehan

June 15, 2026

AI Search

Data & Studies

We Analyzed 137K Sites: 97% of llms.txt Files Never Get Read

Louise Linehan

May 11, 2026

AI Search

Data & Studies

We Tracked 1,885 Pages Adding Schema. AI Citations Barely Moved.

Louise Linehan

April 15, 2026

AI Search

Data & Studies

Why ChatGPT Cites One Page Over Another (Study of 1.4M Prompts)

Ryan Law

March 3, 2026

AI Search

Data & Studies

Wikipedia vs Grokipedia: 5x the Pages, 70x the Citations, 1615x the Traffic

Louise Linehan

March 2, 2026

AI Search

Data & Studies

Update: 38% of AI Overview Citations Pull From The Top 10

Ryan Law

February 4, 2026

AI Search

Data & Studies

Update: AI Overviews Reduce Clicks by 58%

Despina Gavoyannis

January 19, 2026

Data & Studies

ChatGPT Gets Googled More Than YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok

Despina Gavoyannis

December 15, 2025

AI Search

Data & Studies

Are AI Mode and AI Overviews Just Different Versions of the Same Answer? (730K Responses Studied)

Louise Linehan

December 12, 2025

AI Search

Data & Studies

Top Brand Visibility Factors in ChatGPT, AI Mode, and AI Overviews (75k Brands Studied)

Despina Gavoyannis

December 3, 2025

AI Search

Data & Studies

Short vs. Long Content in AI Overviews: The Data Says Both Work

Louise Linehan

November 11, 2025

AI Search

Data & Studies

AI Overviews Change Every 2 Days (But Never Change Their Mind)

Ryan Law

November 10, 2025

AI Search

Data & Studies

What Triggers AI Overviews? 86 Factors and 146 Million SERPs Analyzed

Ryan Law

October 22, 2025

Data & Studies

General SEO

96.98% of Clicks Happen in the Top 10 Search Results

Ryan Law

September 2, 2025

AI Search

Data & Studies

New Study: How Often Do AI Assistants Hallucinate Links? (16 Million URLs Studied)

Si Quan Ong

August 20, 2025

Data & Studies

Is ChatGPT Really Powered by Google? 118,931 Fan-Out Queries Analyzed

Louise Linehan

August 11, 2025

AI Search

Data & Studies

Only 12% of AI Cited URLs Rank in Google’s Top 10 for the Original Prompt

Ryan Law

July 28, 2025

AI Search

Data & Studies

New Study: AI Assistants Prefer to Cite “Fresher” Content (17 Million Citations Analyzed)

Louise Linehan

July 23, 2025

AI Search

Data & Studies

What We Learned From Studying Our Own “AI Proof” Keywords

Ryan Law

July 22, 2025

AI Search

Data & Studies

Goodbye, Featured Snippets: How SERP Features Have Evolved in the AI Era

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