The 50 Most-Cited Websites in Google AI Overviews (July 2026)

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No AI search feature reaches more people than Google’s AI Overviews, which makes its sources some of the most consequential on the web.

AI Overviews are the AI-generated summaries that now sit above traditional Google results — and their scale is staggering. Google says they reach over 2 billion monthly users across more than 200 countries, roughly a quarter of everyone on Earth. When a domain gets cited here, it’s 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. To see which sites Google’s summaries favour, we tracked every domain AI Overviews cited across a broad set of US queries, then ranked them by mention share — each domain’s slice of all the citations the top sources collectively earn. The leader is www.youtube.com, capturing 21.1% of citations. 

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Google AI Overviews Top 10 mention share — United States · July 2026

Mention share = a domain’s citations as a percentage of the summed citations of the top sources. Data via Ahrefs Brand Radar · United States, all topics · July 2026.

www.youtube.com 21.1% – 1,724,069 99 2 www.reddit.com 18.5% – 1,060,529 95 3 www.facebook.com 10.7% – 676,591 100 4 www.google.com 7.1% – 652,536 99 5 www.instagram.com 5.8% – 346,242 100 6 www.quora.com 5.0% ▲ 2 216,100 92 7 en.wikipedia.org 4.8% ▼ 1 117,695 97 8 www.amazon.com 3.5% ▼ 1 198,484 96 9 www.tiktok.com 3.2% – 168,608 97 10 www.walmart.com 1.0% – 58,671 92 11 www.ebay.com 0.9% – 57,363 93 12 www.edmunds.com 0.8% ▲ 2 33,309 86 13 www.healthline.com 0.8% ▲ 2 10,621 92 14 www.forbes.com 0.8% ▲ 3 16,255 94 15 www.kbb.com 0.8% ▼ 3 39,180 89 16 www.homedepot.com 0.8% – 33,116 90 17 www.tripadvisor.com 0.7% ▲ 1 43,764 93 18 www.yahoo.com 0.6% ▼ 5 26,128 94 19 www.nerdwallet.com 0.6% – 4,843 90 20 www.linkedin.com 0.6% ▲ 3 30,592 99 21 www.justanswer.com 0.6% ▼ 1 30,803 76 22 www.webmd.com 0.5% ▲ 2 5,964 92 23 www.businessinsider.com 0.5% ▲ 3 11,996 92 24 www.lemon8-app.com 0.5% ▲ 3 27,156 81 25 pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov 0.5% ▼ 3 21,736 95 26 medium.com 0.5% ▼ 5 21,019 94 27 www.cnet.com 0.5% ▼ 2 10,174 91 28 www.target.com 0.5% ▲ 6 22,504 91 29 www.pinterest.com 0.5% ▲ 4 26,537 97 30 www.consumerreports.org 0.5% ▼ 2 8,422 90 31 www.thespruce.com 0.5% ▲ 1 6,142 90 32 www.goodrx.com 0.4% ▼ 3 14,562 85 33 www.bestbuy.com 0.4% ▼ 2 18,246 89 34 www.cars.com 0.4% ▲ 1 17,381 85 35 www.nytimes.com 0.4% ▲ 4 9,455 94 36 finance.yahoo.com 0.4% ▼ 6 16,498 94 37 www.cargurus.com 0.4% ▲ 7 11,747 79 38 www.trustpilot.com 0.4% ▲ 11 13,824 94 39 m.yelp.com 0.4% ▲ 9 22,706 94 40 www.lowes.com 0.3% ▼ 2 11,397 88 41 www.angi.com 0.3% ▼ 4 5,776 90 42 www.ziprecruiter.com 0.3% NEW 26,430 87 43 www.merriam-webster.com 0.3% ▼ 7 12,878 91 44 www.tastingtable.com 0.3% ▼ 4 9,087 82 45 www.etsy.com 0.3% NEW 22,835 94 46 www.seriouseats.com 0.3% NEW 3,372 86 47 www.wikihow.com 0.3% ▼ 6 7,529 91 48 www.cnbc.com 0.3% ▼ 2 5,079 92 49 www.collinsdictionary.com 0.3% ▼ 7 15,311 85 50 www.liberia.ubuy.com 0.3% NEW 18,565 85
Ahrefs’ Brand Radar, which tracks the responses AI platforms give to a large, search-backed set of real user queries. For this article, we looked at every domain Google AI Overviews cited across over 3 million US queries spanning all topics, then counted how often each domain appeared as a source.

For each website we report:

  • Mention share — a domain’s citations as a percentage of the summed citations of the top 50 most-cited sources. It shows how much of Google AI Overviews’s “source attention” each website captures.
  • vs last month — how the domain’s rank has moved since the previous monthly snapshot (▲ climbed, ▼ fell, or NEW if it wasn’t in last month’s top 50).
  • Pages cited — the number of distinct pages on the domain that Google AI Overviews cited, a measure of how broadly the site is referenced rather than how often.
  • DR (Domain Rating) — Ahrefs’ 0–100 measure of a website’s backlink-profile strength, included for context on each source’s overall authority.

This article is generated and automatically kept up to date every month by Agent A, our AI agent. Each month it pulls the latest Brand Radar data, recalculates mention share and rank movement, and refreshes the chart and table above — so the figures always reflect the most recent snapshot.

Ahrefs’ Brand Radar.

Measure your brand’s visibility in Google AI Overviews, see the specific queries where your brand gets mentioned (and the ones where it doesn’t), the pages that mention your brand, and then compare every metric with your closest competitors: 

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