
Page Speed and AI Citations: The Real Correlation Data for 2026
Slow pages get cited less. Here is the actual correlation data between Core Web Vitals and AI citation rates, plus…
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Slow pages get cited less. Here is the actual correlation data between Core Web Vitals and AI citation rates, plus…

Table of contents blocks are not just UX. They give AI crawlers a dense summary chunk, section-level anchor targets, and…

Alt text used to be an accessibility checkbox. In 2026 it is a primary signal for AI Mode, multimodal models,…

Perplexity Pro and Free cite different sources for the same query. Here is what Perplexity documents, what we observe running…

Lost AI citations overnight? Here is the diagnostic framework I run with clients to identify the root cause, engine, site,…

AI crawlers handle redirects differently than classic search bots. Here is how to use 301, 302, and canonical tags so…

JSON-LD wins for AI search in almost every scenario. Here is the decision framework, the edge cases where Microdata still…

Thin and outdated content dilutes your topical authority and starves AI engines of clean signals. Here is the content pruning…

The top 3 most-cited domains across 42,971 AI citations are YouTube (1,525), Reddit (1,444), and Wikipedia (975). Here is what…

AI Mode readability is bimodal, not normal. In our May 2026 study of 153,425 citations, 22.9% of cited sentences score…