Open data
The AI Citation Index
Which websites do AI assistants actually cite? This index is computed from 185 real AI answer checks over the last 90 days — counting every citation returned, not a top-ten subset. The full method is published below.
Perplexity
3,241 citations · 532 distinct domains · top 10 hold 31%
- 1hubspot.com13.9%
- 2reddit.com2.7%
- 3semrush.com2.5%
- 4yahoo.com2.3%
- 5salesforce.com2.1%
- 6forbes.com1.8%
- 7adobe.com1.6%
- 8zapier.com1.4%
- 9cargas.com1.2%
- 10wikipedia.org1.2%
- 11investing.com1.2%
- 12linkedin.com1.2%
- 13contentmarketinginstitute.com1.0%
- 14youtube.com1.0%
- 15martech.org0.9%
- 16engagebay.com0.9%
- 17simplestrat.com0.8%
- 18ahrefs.com0.8%
- 19amazon.com0.8%
- 20coursera.org0.8%
- 21seranking.com0.8%
- 22nutshell.com0.7%
- 23digitalmarketinginstitute.com0.7%
- 24frase.io0.7%
- 25hbs.edu0.7%
Google AI Overviews
1,105 citations · 215 distinct domains · top 10 hold 40%
- 1youtube.com10.8%
- 2reddit.com7.6%
- 3hubspot.com7.1%
- 4cargas.com3.0%
- 5salesforce.com2.9%
- 6simplestrat.com2.3%
- 7yahoo.com1.7%
- 8forbes.com1.6%
- 9frase.io1.6%
- 10adobe.com1.5%
- 11zapier.com1.5%
- 12digitalmarketinginstitute.com1.4%
- 13quora.com1.3%
- 14linkedin.com1.2%
- 15seranking.com1.2%
- 16evenbound.com1.1%
- 17tryprofound.com1.0%
- 18marceldigital.com0.9%
- 19nutshell.com0.9%
- 20wecreate.com0.9%
- 21coursera.org0.8%
- 22hbs.edu0.8%
- 23hublead.io0.8%
- 24syncmatters.com0.8%
- 25llmpulse.ai0.7%
Claude
341 citations · 118 distinct domains · top 10 hold 33%
- 1dageno.ai7.6%
- 2tryprofound.com4.7%
- 3investing.com4.4%
- 4frase.io2.6%
- 5hubspot.com2.6%
- 6yahoo.com2.6%
- 7campaigncreators.com2.3%
- 8seranking.com2.3%
- 9aiadvantageagency.com2.1%
- 10nightwatch.io2.1%
- 11rankability.com2.1%
- 12meltwater.com1.8%
- 13pixis.ai1.8%
- 14alternativeto.net1.5%
- 15cxl.com1.5%
- 16lazymetrics.com1.5%
- 17neilpatel.com1.5%
- 18position.digital1.5%
- 19semrush.com1.5%
- 20airops.com1.2%
- 21exposureninja.com1.2%
- 22getpassionfruit.com1.2%
- 23wellows.com1.2%
- 24aioseo.com0.9%
- 25bighuman.com0.9%
Methodology
Published because most citation statistics in this category aren't. If you cite this index, please link back so readers can check the method.
- Built from 185 completed AI answer checks run by AE Ranking between 2026-07-29 and 2026-10-27.
- Every citation an engine returned is counted — not just the top ten sources per platform, which is how most published figures in this category are actually computed.
- Shares are of all counted citations for that engine, so they sum to 1 across all domains, not just the ones shown.
- Subdomains are rolled up to their parent site; AI-platform infrastructure hosts are excluded.
- De-identified: no client, prompt, or customer domain is exposed — only which source domains engines cite.
- Engines with fewer than 50 citations in the period are omitted rather than published from a thin sample.
- Prompts reflect what AE Ranking customers track, which skews toward commercial and comparison intent. This is a sample of AI citation behaviour, not a census of the web.
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