Sources

What the Sources page is for#

Engines that search the web build their answers from a small set of pages. The Sources page shows that set for your prompts: which domains and URLs get cited, by which engines, and how that changes over time. It answers two practical questions:

• Are my own pages used as evidence? Being named in an answer is good. Being the page the engine links to is better, because it means your content is shaping the answer.
• Whose pages should I be on? If a review site, directory or listicle is cited for dozens of your prompts and you are not mentioned there, getting listed often moves visibility faster than publishing another page of your own.

The page follows the same filter bar as the dashboard (date range, engine, country, tag).

The stats row#

How share is calculated#

• The denominator is every citation across all cited sources, not only the top rows.
• Raw Google organic results, which AmICited stores alongside the AI Overview as a ranking baseline, are not counted as citations here.
• Δ compares the source’s citation count with the previous period of the same length, as a percentage change. A source that was not cited before shows no change value.
• The 14-day column is a sparkline of the last 14 daily counts.

Worked example#

Your prompts produced 1,200 citations in the last 30 days. g2.com was cited 96 times, up from 64 in the 30 days before.

• Share: 96 ÷ 1,200 × 100 = 8.0%
• Δ: (96 − 64) ÷ 64 × 100 = +50%

This is the share of citation metric, applied to every source instead of only your own domain.

Sections on the page#

• Search cited URLs. Filter all citations by a URL path prefix (for example /blog/), by the cited domain, or both. Use it to answer “is anything under /docs/ ever cited?” or “which of a competitor’s pages get cited?” without scrolling.
• Citations over time. Daily citations for your top sources, switchable By provider, Top domains and Top URLs, with a readout of the average per day.
• Cited by provider. A matrix of your top domains or pages against each engine, shaded by how often that engine cited them. Click a cell to see the actual responses behind the count. This is the fastest way to spot a source only one engine trusts.
• All sources. The ranked table, By domain or By URL. Your own domain is marked you.

Table columns#

The URL view labels each page with its Page type (article, comparison, pricing, forum…), Format (how-to, listicle, review, FAQ…) and Intent, and shows Page age. Those labels show what kind of page wins citations for your topic, which is often more useful than the individual URLs. Clicking a domain row opens a drawer with its top-cited pages.

How to act on it#

• Sort by Share, ignore your own row, and read the top ten. These are the domains that shape answers in your category. Check whether each one mentions you, and if not, whether it could (reviews, comparisons, directories, community threads).
• Look for single-engine sources. In the provider matrix, a domain cited heavily by one engine and never by others tells you where that engine’s view of your market comes from.
• Compare page types. If the cited URLs are mostly comparisons and listicles and you publish only product pages, that is a format gap. See AI articles.
• Check your own cited pages. Filter the URL search to your domain to see which of your pages already earn citations, then protect and extend them.

Related#