--> AI Overviews
--> ChatGPT
--> Perplexity
and the amount of traffic these websites get.
"All 3 systems seem to mention more trafficked websites more often, but the strength of that relationship varies a bit."
Here's what's interesting, chatgpt and perplexity to my knowledge do not have user behavior data, website popularity/ authority, or website traffic data factored into their systems.
This actually means that, the main "quality" signals if we may call it so, are based on the content on the page primarily.
"Perplexity mentions are the most aligned with the organic search traffic of the websites and ChatGPT is the least aligned, but if Wikipedia wasn’t such a huge outlier, it would be much more aligned."
So most aligned with website traffic:
1. Perplexity
2. AI Overviews
3. ChatGPT
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