Homepages are underperformers for selection | Trakkr Research
Homepages are discovered often but cited less efficiently.
Methodology: Built from 337,362 citations and 11,406,191 crawler visits across 882 brands, with page-type classification and crawl-to-citation matching.
Claim
Homepages run at 0.74x citation efficiency in the page-type matrix.
Why it matters
Strategists and operators should treat homepages primarily as navigational routers rather than end-state answer pages, reallocating deep informational content to blogs or product pages to improve overall AI citation rates.
Supporting metrics
| Metric | Value | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Homepage efficiency | 0.74x | Homepages are read more than they are cited. |
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Data & Sources
- AI Crawls Your Product Pages. It Cites Your Blog. - Flagship study behind this page
- Page JSON - Machine-readable companion file