{"id":197926,"date":"2026-06-01T11:00:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T16:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahrefs.com\/blog\/?p=197926"},"modified":"2026-06-01T11:10:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T16:10:01","slug":"most-cited-domains-ai-overviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ahrefs.com\/blog\/most-cited-domains-ai-overviews\/","title":{"rendered":"The 50 Most-Cited Websites in Google AI Overviews (June 2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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No AI search feature reaches more people than Google\u2019s AI Overviews, which makes its sources some of the most consequential on the web.<\/div>\n

AI Overviews are the AI-generated summaries that now sit above traditional Google results \u2014 and their scale is staggering. Google says they reach over 2 billion monthly users across more than 200 countries<\/a>, roughly a quarter of everyone on Earth. When a domain gets cited here, it\u2019s being surfaced to an audience no other AI assistant comes close to. That also makes AI Overviews a flashpoint for publishers worried about losing clicks.<\/p>\n

To see which sites Google\u2019s summaries favour, we tracked every domain AI Overviews cited across a broad set of US queries, then ranked them by mention share<\/strong> \u2014 each domain\u2019s slice of all the citations the top sources collectively earn. The leader is www.youtube.com<\/strong>, capturing 20.9%<\/strong> of citations.<\/p>\n

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Mention share = a domain\u2019s citations as a percentage of the summed citations of the top sources. Data via Ahrefs Brand Radar \u00b7 United States, all topics \u00b7 June 2026.<\/p><\/div><\/figure>\n

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