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%

  1. 1hubspot.com
    13.9%
  2. 2reddit.com
    2.7%
  3. 3semrush.com
    2.5%
  4. 4yahoo.com
    2.3%
  5. 5salesforce.com
    2.1%
  6. 6forbes.com
    1.8%
  7. 7adobe.com
    1.6%
  8. 8zapier.com
    1.4%
  9. 9cargas.com
    1.2%
  10. 10wikipedia.org
    1.2%
  11. 11investing.com
    1.2%
  12. 12linkedin.com
    1.2%
  13. 13contentmarketinginstitute.com
    1.0%
  14. 14youtube.com
    1.0%
  15. 15martech.org
    0.9%
  16. 16engagebay.com
    0.9%
  17. 17simplestrat.com
    0.8%
  18. 18ahrefs.com
    0.8%
  19. 19amazon.com
    0.8%
  20. 20coursera.org
    0.8%
  21. 21seranking.com
    0.8%
  22. 22nutshell.com
    0.7%
  23. 23digitalmarketinginstitute.com
    0.7%
  24. 24frase.io
    0.7%
  25. 25hbs.edu
    0.7%

Google AI Overviews

1,105 citations · 215 distinct domains · top 10 hold 40%

  1. 1youtube.com
    10.8%
  2. 2reddit.com
    7.6%
  3. 3hubspot.com
    7.1%
  4. 4cargas.com
    3.0%
  5. 5salesforce.com
    2.9%
  6. 6simplestrat.com
    2.3%
  7. 7yahoo.com
    1.7%
  8. 8forbes.com
    1.6%
  9. 9frase.io
    1.6%
  10. 10adobe.com
    1.5%
  11. 11zapier.com
    1.5%
  12. 12digitalmarketinginstitute.com
    1.4%
  13. 13quora.com
    1.3%
  14. 14linkedin.com
    1.2%
  15. 15seranking.com
    1.2%
  16. 16evenbound.com
    1.1%
  17. 17tryprofound.com
    1.0%
  18. 18marceldigital.com
    0.9%
  19. 19nutshell.com
    0.9%
  20. 20wecreate.com
    0.9%
  21. 21coursera.org
    0.8%
  22. 22hbs.edu
    0.8%
  23. 23hublead.io
    0.8%
  24. 24syncmatters.com
    0.8%
  25. 25llmpulse.ai
    0.7%

Claude

341 citations · 118 distinct domains · top 10 hold 33%

  1. 1dageno.ai
    7.6%
  2. 2tryprofound.com
    4.7%
  3. 3investing.com
    4.4%
  4. 4frase.io
    2.6%
  5. 5hubspot.com
    2.6%
  6. 6yahoo.com
    2.6%
  7. 7campaigncreators.com
    2.3%
  8. 8seranking.com
    2.3%
  9. 9aiadvantageagency.com
    2.1%
  10. 10nightwatch.io
    2.1%
  11. 11rankability.com
    2.1%
  12. 12meltwater.com
    1.8%
  13. 13pixis.ai
    1.8%
  14. 14alternativeto.net
    1.5%
  15. 15cxl.com
    1.5%
  16. 16lazymetrics.com
    1.5%
  17. 17neilpatel.com
    1.5%
  18. 18position.digital
    1.5%
  19. 19semrush.com
    1.5%
  20. 20airops.com
    1.2%
  21. 21exposureninja.com
    1.2%
  22. 22getpassionfruit.com
    1.2%
  23. 23wellows.com
    1.2%
  24. 24aioseo.com
    0.9%
  25. 25bighuman.com
    0.9%

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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