{
  "kind": "fact",
  "studySlug": "page-type-performance",
  "slug": "documentation-is-a-slight-overperformer-in-the-page-type-matrix",
  "title": "Documentation is a slight overperformer in the page-type matrix",
  "description": "Docs slightly outperform their 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:docs-efficiency"
  ],
  "relatedSlugs": [
    "answer:are-service-and-use-case-pages-underrated-for-ai-citations",
    "answer:do-homepages-help-with-ai-citations",
    "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": "Documentation pages operate at a 1.13x citation efficiency relative to their crawl share.",
  "supportingMetrics": [
    {
      "label": "Documentation efficiency",
      "value": "1.13x",
      "detail": "Docs slightly outperform their crawl share."
    }
  ],
  "whyItMatters": "Strategists should prioritize structured technical documentation as a reliable mechanism for influencing AI outputs, as these formats demonstrate a measurable advantage in retrieval and citation algorithms.",
  "citationBlock": {
    "quote": "Documentation runs at 1.13x citation efficiency in the page-type study.",
    "attribution": "AI Crawls Your Product Pages. It Cites Your Blog. - Trakkr Research",
    "url": "https://trakkr.ai/trakkr-research/page-type-performance/facts/documentation-is-a-slight-overperformer-in-the-page-type-matrix"
  }
}