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

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 20.9% of citations.

The 50 most-cited websites in Google AI Overviews

1	www.youtube.com	20.9%	–	1,545,623	99
2	www.youtube.com	19.6%	–	1,069,205	95
3	www.facebook.com	11.6%	–	695,220	100
4	www.google.com	6.0%	▲ 28	435,726	99
5	www.instagram.com	5.2%	▼ 1	261,084	100
6	en.wikipedia.org	4.8%	▼ 1	109,152	97
7	www.amazon.com	4.0%	–	219,311	96
8	www.quora.com	4.0%	–	166,469	92
9	www.tiktok.com	3.6%	▼ 3	167,008	97
10	www.walmart.com	0.9%	▼ 1	49,146	92
11	www.ebay.com	0.8%	–	48,608	93
12	www.kbb.com	0.8%	▼ 2	36,241	89
13	www.yahoo.com	0.8%	▼ 1	28,885	94
14	www.edmunds.com	0.8%	▼ 1	27,699	86
15	www.healthline.com	0.8%	▲ 1	9,766	92
16	www.homedepot.com	0.8%	▼ 1	31,135	90
17	www.forbes.com	0.8%	▼ 3	13,807	94
18	www.tripadvisor.com	0.7%	▼ 1	40,390	93
19	www.nerdwallet.com	0.6%	▼ 1	4,483	90
20	www.justanswer.com	0.5%	▲ 2	27,292	76
21	medium.com	0.5%	▲ 3	20,772	94
22	pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov	0.5%	▲ 11	20,818	95
23	www.linkedin.com	0.5%	▲ 5	23,962	99
24	www.webmd.com	0.5%	▲ 2	5,649	92
25	www.cnet.com	0.5%	▼ 4	9,273	91
26	www.businessinsider.com	0.5%	▼ 7	10,301	92
27	www.lemon8-app.com	0.5%	▲ 15	25,299	80
28	www.consumerreports.org	0.5%	▲ 1	8,102	90
29	www.goodrx.com	0.5%	▲ 6	11,753	85
30	finance.yahoo.com	0.5%	▼ 3	16,984	94
31	www.bestbuy.com	0.5%	▼ 8	18,430	89
32	www.thespruce.com	0.4%	▼ 12	5,798	90
33	www.pinterest.com	0.4%	▲ 4	21,626	97
34	www.target.com	0.4%	▼ 3	18,584	91
35	www.cars.com	0.4%	▼ 5	16,824	86
36	www.merriam-webster.com	0.4%	–	14,317	91
37	www.angi.com	0.4%	▼ 3	5,246	90
38	www.lowes.com	0.4%	–	9,716	88
39	www.nytimes.com	0.4%	▼ 14	8,685	94
40	www.tastingtable.com	0.3%	▲ 5	8,490	82
41	www.wikihow.com	0.3%	▼ 2	7,705	91
42	www.collinsdictionary.com	0.3%	▼ 2	14,637	85
43	www.pcmag.com	0.3%	–	6,526	91
44	www.cargurus.com	0.3%	▲ 2	8,930	78
45	www.bankrate.com	0.3%	▲ 3	2,799	90
46	www.cnbc.com	0.3%	▲ 3	4,530	92
47	dictionary.cambridge.org	0.3%	▲ 3	12,427	92
48	m.yelp.com	0.3%	NEW	17,273	94
49	www.trustpilot.com	0.3%	NEW	10,796	94
50	www.dictionary.com	0.3%	NEW	8,642	90

The numbers come from 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:

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.

To track your brand’s presence in Google AI Overviews, you’ll need to use Ahrefs’ Brand Radar.

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