Citations

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What it shows

The Citations tab of Visibility (/dashboard/citations, Visibility › Citations in the sidebar; it was the Citations page) lists the domains and URLs that AI engines cited in their answers to your tracked prompts, for the active brand in the sidebar. It reads the answers your tracking already stores. The date range, platform, region and topic come with you from Visibility’s other tabs.

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Filters

The filters live in the URL, so a refresh or a shared link opens the same view. When a table is empty for the window but the brand has citations outside it, Show all data clears the filters and shows all dates and all sources.

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Summary cards

• Total Citations — every citation in the window, and how many tracked results (AI answers) they come from
• Unique Domains — the cited domains in the source choice below (Brand, Competitors, Third-Party or All), with their unique URLs
• Avg citations per result — the number of links per AI answer

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Top Sources

The Top Sources card has four tabs: Domains, URLs, Competitor Gaps and Source Types. Above the Domains and URLs tables, four buttons choose which sources they list:

• Brand (the default) — your brand’s own domains
• Competitors — the domains of the competitors you track
• Third-Party — every other site
• All — every source

The choice doesn’t change Total Citations, Avg citations per result, Competitor Gaps or Source Types.

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Domains

Each cited domain, ranked by how often it was cited: On a domain that isn’t yours or a tracked competitor’s, the + button (Add as competitor) opens a dialog with a name taken from the domain. Edit the name and click Add to track it on Competitors.

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URLs

Each cited page, ranked by its citations, with Platforms, Usage and Citations. Click a page’s title to open its URL page; the small icon beside it opens the page itself. The tab lists up to the 2,000 most-cited URLs, and its count is the full number. Both tables show 100 rows a page.

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Export

Export CSV, in Visibility’s header while this tab is open, downloads the open table under the filters:

• Domains — domain, category, total_citations, results_citing, usage_pct, models
• URLs — url, domain, category, title, total_citations, results_citing, usage_pct
• Competitor Gaps — the gap list: domain, category, competitor_answers, competitors, strength

Source Types has no export.

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Source classification

Ansvisor gives every cited domain one of eight types: You and Competitor come first: a tracked competitor’s domain is always Competitor, even when it’s also a review site. Only competitors with a domain are matched. The other lists are short, so most sites are Other. The Source Types tab shows the cited domains in a donut chart, with each type’s share of the domains (not of the citations). It covers every cited domain in the window, whatever the source choice.

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How to use it

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See which of your pages AI cites

On the Brand choice (the default), the URLs tab lists your own pages that AI cites, on which platforms and how often. Open a page to see the prompts it’s cited for.

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Find the third-party sources AI trusts

Choose Third-Party. The top of the Domains and URLs lists are the sites AI leans on most for your prompts: places to be mentioned or cited.

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Find outreach targets in Competitor Gaps

Competitor Gaps lists third-party domains that AI cites when it names a competitor and not you. It has two views:

• Gap list — domains cited in at least two answers that name a competitor while your brand isn’t named and none of your domains is cited, and never cited in an answer where you appear. Columns: Domain, Source type, Competitor answers, Which competitors and Strength. Up to 100 domains, strongest first.
• By competitor — pick a competitor to see the third-party domains cited in answers that name it, with Answers feeding, Also cites us? (whether the domain also appears in an answer where you appear) and Strength.

Strength weighs each answer by how many sources it had, so a source in a two-source answer counts more than one in a twenty-source answer (How this works). When your brand appears in fewer than one answer in ten in the window, a note says the list may be broad: work on your baseline visibility first. Competitor Gaps follows the date, topic, prompt, platform and region filters, not the Brand / Competitors / Third-Party / All choice.

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Watch your competitors’ pages

Choose Competitors to see which competitor domains and pages AI cites in your answers.

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The URL page

Click a page’s title on the URLs tab to open its page (/dashboard/citations/url). It opens with the Citations tab’s date range, platform and region (not its topic or prompt), and you can change the date range and platform there. Citations at the top goes back. The header shows the page’s title and address, its source type and, when Ansvisor can tell from the address and title, its article type: Topic Guide, How-to Guide, Review, Ranked List or Comparison. Your own pages are marked Owned; any other page has Add as competitor, which adds its domain. Five cards sum it up: Total citations, Answers citing, Prompts, Platforms and Last seen (with the date it was first seen). For your own pages, two more cards:

• Targeted in N prompts — the prompts that list this page in their Target URLs, and how many times it was cited for each
• AI-referred visits — visits to this page from AI platforms in the window, by platform

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Cited in

Every AI answer in the window that cites the page, newest first, 10 a page:

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Prompts breakdown

The prompts whose answers cite the page, with Answers, Citations and Last seen, most citations first.