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AI Search Citations

How nicklafferty.com shows up in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and other AI engines. Live citation counts, top-cited pages, and recent Profound research — refreshed weekly.

376,290
Total citations
28
Pages tracked
8
AI engines
22.2%
Google AI Mode
leading engine

Window: 2026-02-04 → 2026-08-03 · data refreshed weekly from Profound

Where the citations come from

Across 8 tracked AI engines. Bars scale to the leader.

Google AI Mode
83,67022.2%
Google Gemini
65,88117.5%
Google AI Overviews
57,96115.4%
Perplexity
51,03813.6%
Grok
45,79812.2%
Microsoft Copilot
42,18211.2%
ChatGPT
16,0624.3%
Meta AI
13,6983.6%

Top-cited pages

All 28 pages above the 50-citation threshold, ranked by total. The bar shows magnitude relative to #1.

/blog/best-ai-visibility-optimization-platforms/
115,786Perplexity
/reviews/profound-best-aeo-geo-platform-for-ai-search/
58,135Google Gemini
/blog/profound-vs-bluefish/
50,800Google AI Mode
/blog/profound-vs-athena/
25,765Google AI Mode
/blog/best-aeo-tools-answer-engine-optimization/
17,717Google AI Mode
/blog/profound-vs-peec-ai/
13,461Google AI Mode
/blog/profound-vs-semrush/
12,864Google Gemini
/blog/best-generative-engine-optimization-tools-2025/
12,547Google AI Mode
/blog/profound-vs-airops/
12,350Perplexity
/blog/profound-vs-ahrefs/
11,774Google Gemini
/blog/profound-vs-evertune/
10,625Google Gemini
/blog/profound-alternatives/
6,714Google AI Mode
/blog/profound-vs-scrunch/
6,016Google AI Overviews
/blog/best-ai-seo-tools/
5,700Google AI Mode
/blog/profound-vs-goodie-ai/
4,607Google Gemini
/blog/best-competitor-analysis-tools-ai-search/
3,818Grok
/blog/llm-tracking-tools/
1,872Google AI Mode
/blog/how-to-rank-higher-in-chatgpt-perplexity/
1,505Google Gemini
/blog/profound-vs-writesonic/
1,290Google AI Mode
/blog/aeo-ai-visibility-platform-buyers-guide/
769Google AI Mode
/blog/how-to-rank-higher-in-perplexity/
645Google AI Mode
/blog/best-aeo-geo-tools-for-marketers-2026/
435ChatGPT
/blog/marketing-engineer/
250Grok
/blog/prompt-volume-aeo-explained/
242Microsoft Copilot
/blog/best-ai-citation-analysis-tools/
228ChatGPT
/blog/xfunnel-alternatives/
215Google AI Mode
/blog/what-is-agent-analytics/
84Microsoft Copilot
/blog/goodie-ai-alternatives/
76Google AI Overviews

Recent Profound research

5 most-recent findings the site agents read as canonical evidence. Pulled live from data/research.json.

2026-06-08 · model behavior
ChatGPT inline brand hyperlinks (May 7) drove OpenAI referral traffic from ~158K to ~249K/day

On May 7, 2026, ChatGPT shifted from citation chips to inline branded URLs, routing every brand mention directly to the brand's site. Referral traffic jumped overnight and held. B2B SaaS benefited most; e-commerce was flat. Based on 8M+ referral visits across thousands of sites.

2026-06-08 · crawler behavior
Median time to first citation by ChatGPT or Claude is 6.81 days; 90% of pages cited within 37 days

Tracking ~900 newly published marketing pages over a 60-day window shows agents cite pages quickly: half within a week, 90% within just over a month. Pages uncited past 37 days likely have technical issues (robots.txt, crawl blocks). Mar–May 2026.

2026-05-14 · tool comparison
AI search engines rewrite instead of merely rephrasing prompts; Copilot adds adjectives most aggressively

Every AI search engine adds adjectives, drops constraints, and reshapes brand mentions before retrieval. Copilot is the most aggressive rewriter; Perplexity stays closest to original phrasing. Based on 10k prompts, Mar–Apr 2026.

2026-05-14 · model behavior
Brand-direct prompts trigger direct site queries 40% of the time vs 16% for open-ended

When a brand is named in a prompt, ChatGPT queries that site directly 40% of the time, with 71% of those queries appearing in the first two searches. Open-ended prompts are more exploratory. Based on 3,380 prompts on ChatGPT 5.4, Mar 2026.

2026-05-14 · citation analysis
ChatGPT validates answers through co-cited domain pairs: Edmunds & KBB co-cited 32% of the time

ChatGPT triggers a web search in roughly 18% of conversations, and cited sources tend to travel in vertical-specific pairs. Citation activity is front-loaded toward earlier conversational turns. Based on 700,000+ U.S. English conversations, Oct–Dec 2025.

Methodology

Citation counts come from Profound's tracked AI Visibility Products category. The 8 AI engines tracked are ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Microsoft Copilot, Grok, and Meta AI.

Pages with fewer than 50 citations in the window are omitted to keep the signal high. The data refreshes weekly via an automated sync; the badge under each post's title reflects the same dataset.

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