{
  "kind": "fact",
  "studySlug": "page-type-performance",
  "slug": "blog-pages-run-at-one-point-four-times-citation-efficiency",
  "title": "Blog pages run at 1.4x citation efficiency",
  "description": "Blog content outperforms its crawl share.",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-03-14",
  "lastTested": "2026-03-14",
  "sourceStudyUrl": "/trakkr-research/page-type-performance",
  "sourceStudyTitle": "AI Crawls Your Product Pages. It Cites Your Blog.",
  "claimIds": [
    "page-type-performance:blog-efficiency"
  ],
  "relatedSlugs": [
    "answer:do-blog-posts-outperform-product-pages-for-ai-citations",
    "answer:what-is-citation-efficiency-and-why-does-it-matter",
    "tracker:owned-vs-third-party-citation-tracker"
  ],
  "methodologySummary": "Built from 337,362 citations and 11,406,191 crawler visits across 882 brands, with page-type classification and crawl-to-citation matching.",
  "limitations": [
    "Efficiency is relative to share, so it is best used for prioritization, not as a standalone success metric.",
    "Underperforming page types can still be necessary for other jobs such as onboarding, conversion, or account support.",
    "Crawler behavior and citation behavior are linked but not identical, especially across bot families."
  ],
  "keywords": [
    "page type performance",
    "citation efficiency",
    "crawl to citation gap",
    "blog vs product pages"
  ],
  "schemaHints": {
    "pageType": "Article",
    "includeDataset": true
  },
  "claim": "Blog and editorial pages post a 1.4x citation efficiency in the page-type matrix.",
  "supportingMetrics": [
    {
      "label": "Blog efficiency",
      "value": "1.4x",
      "detail": "Blog content outperforms its crawl share."
    }
  ],
  "whyItMatters": "Strategists should allocate resources toward explanation-heavy editorial formats, as these pages convert crawler attention into active citations more effectively than standard product or transactional pages.",
  "citationBlock": {
    "quote": "Blog and editorial pages post 1.4x citation efficiency in the page-type matrix.",
    "attribution": "AI Crawls Your Product Pages. It Cites Your Blog. - Trakkr Research",
    "url": "https://trakkr.ai/trakkr-research/page-type-performance/facts/blog-pages-run-at-one-point-four-times-citation-efficiency"
  }
}