# Do homepages help with AI citations? | Trakkr Research

Canonical URL: https://trakkr.ai/trakkr-research/page-type-performance/answers/do-homepages-help-with-ai-citations
Published: 2026-03-14
Last updated: 2026-03-14
Author: Mack Grenfell

Homepages help with discovery, but they are not especially citation-efficient. In the matrix, homepage efficiency sits at 0.74x, which means they are read more often than they are cited.

## Methodology

Built from 337,362 citations and 11,406,191 crawler visits across 882 brands, with page-type classification and crawl-to-citation matching.

## Direct Answer

Rarely. Homepages help with discovery, but they are not especially citation-efficient. In the matrix, homepage efficiency sits at 0.74x, which means they are read more often than they are cited.

## What this means

Understanding homepage efficiency allows teams to adjust their internal linking strategy, ensuring high-value editorial and use-case pages receive the crawl budget necessary to generate actual citations.

## Evidence table

| Metric | Value | Why it matters |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Homepage efficiency | 0.74x | Homepages are read more than they are cited. |

## Frequently Asked Questions

### What is the exact citation efficiency of a homepage?

Homepage efficiency sits at 0.74x, indicating they are crawled more frequently than they are cited.

### Should we stop optimizing the homepage for AI?

No, homepages remain critical for discovery and routing crawlers to more citation-efficient pages.

## What to do next

- [Prioritize page types that convert crawl attention into citations, not just raw crawl volume.](https://trakkr.ai/trakkr-research/page-type-performance/answers/do-homepages-help-with-ai-citations#next-step-1)
- [Use product pages for coverage, but build answer-heavy editorial and use-case pages for citation lift.](https://trakkr.ai/trakkr-research/page-type-performance/answers/do-homepages-help-with-ai-citations#next-step-2)
- [Audit high-crawl, low-citation templates first because they are the clearest waste in the system.](https://trakkr.ai/trakkr-research/page-type-performance/answers/do-homepages-help-with-ai-citations#next-step-3)

## Related pages

Continue through the same study cluster.

- [are docs better than most teams think for ai visibility](https://trakkr.ai/trakkr-research/page-type-performance/answers/are-docs-better-than-most-teams-think-for-ai-visibility) - Related answer page
- [why do product pages get crawled so much but cited so little](https://trakkr.ai/trakkr-research/page-type-performance/answers/why-do-product-pages-get-crawled-so-much-but-cited-so-little) - Related answer page
- [homepages are underperformers for selection](https://trakkr.ai/trakkr-research/page-type-performance/facts/homepages-are-underperformers-for-selection) - Related fact page
- [page type citation efficiency tracker](https://trakkr.ai/trakkr-research/page-type-performance/trackers/page-type-citation-efficiency-tracker) - Related tracker page

## Data And Sources

- [AI Crawls Your Product Pages. It Cites Your Blog.](https://trakkr.ai/trakkr-research/page-type-performance) - Flagship study behind this page
- [Page JSON](https://trakkr.ai/data/research-answers/page-type-performance/answers/do-homepages-help-with-ai-citations.json) - Machine-readable companion file