Observatory · October 2026
Claude: 88.1% of Cited Sources Are Rankings
Claude takes 88.1% of the sources it cites on buying questions from rankings and comparison pages, based on 8,020 answers collected between July and October 2026 (Archipel Observatory).
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Go further →Claude takes 88.1% of the sources it cites on buying questions from rankings and comparison pages, based on 8,020 answers collected between July and October 2026 (Archipel Observatory).
The figure comes from 8,020 Claude answers tracked via Peec AI, mostly on French-language buying questions. Listicles alone are 55.7% of the pages Claude cites.
Method
406,626 AI answers collected every day from July 12, 2026 to October 11, 2026 on over 1,700 purchase-intent questions tracked by Archipel (mostly in French, plus the United States and the Netherlands). ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity and Copilot: Profound data. Claude and Gemini: Peec AI data. Sources are classified automatically from their address and title. Figures are aggregated: no brand or client is published. Free to reuse with a link to this page.
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