{
  "slug": "cited-page-citation-count",
  "name": "Citations per cited page",
  "aliases": [
    "Cited URL citations",
    "Citations by page"
  ],
  "definition": "How many times answer engines cited one specific URL of yours, or of a named competitor, in the period.",
  "category": "AI visibility",
  "type": "raw measure",
  "unit": "citations",
  "direction": "higher-better",
  "verification": "verified",
  "calculation": "A row count of market-share rank rows for the URL, filtered to rows that carry a cited page URL, one row is one citation instance. The leaderboard sums it per URL and orders descending.",
  "aggregation": "Additive across prompts; the verb sums it per URL and per citation category, and orders the leaderboard by it descending.",
  "grain": "One cited URL for one tracked segment over one date range.",
  "dimensions": [
    "cited URL",
    "competitor domain",
    "citation category",
    "answer engine",
    "intent",
    "branded vs non-branded"
  ],
  "requiredFilters": [
    "tracker or tracked segment id",
    "date range"
  ],
  "sources": [
    "ai-visibility",
    "rank-tracking"
  ],
  "reports": [
    "ai-bot-activity-report",
    "ai-referral-traffic-report",
    "ai-visibility-report"
  ],
  "skills": [
    "ai-citation-monitoring",
    "aeo-audit",
    "ai-prompt-coverage-gaps",
    "competitor-deep-dive"
  ],
  "verbs": [
    "ai_page_citations",
    "ai_visibility_drilldown"
  ],
  "rungs": [
    "R3"
  ],
  "levers": [
    "L7",
    "L6"
  ],
  "questions": [
    "Which of our pages do AI answers cite most?",
    "Which of a competitor's pages earn their citations?",
    "Did we gain or lose cited pages this month?"
  ],
  "interpretation": "This is the supply side of being referenced, the specific pages answers are built from. It joins naturally to whether AI crawlers fetched those pages, which is the question a citation count alone cannot answer.",
  "caveats": [
    "A \"citation\" here is one rank row carrying a page URL, so the count is of citation instances rather than of distinct answers or distinct prompts.",
    "Rows without a cited URL are filtered out twice, once by the measure itself and again in the verb, so the leaderboard describes pages, not every citation event in the period.",
    "Your own pages are scoped by the configured customer site's exact www and apex aliases rather than by a domain dimension, so a page served from an unconfigured subdomain will not appear in your rows.",
    "This is an aggregated cited-page count across all answer-engine runs in the period, not a per-engine sampled share estimate with a confidence interval.",
    "New and lost cited URLs churn at low counts; weekly movement on a single URL is direction, not a result.",
    "The shipped name-based formatter classifies this measure as a percentage because the word \"citation\" sits in its percent list. The verbs rename it before it reaches a card, so the count renders correctly today, but the raw field name would render \"412\" as \"412%\".",
    "Answer-engine citations and Google's on-SERP AI Overviews are different surfaces, on different datasets, measured separately and never rolled together."
  ],
  "freshness": "~1 day behind, Daily prompt runs, available the following day.",
  "failureModes": [
    "Reading a page's citation count as traffic, a citation is not a visit.",
    "Concluding a page lost citations when the prompt basket that used to reach it changed."
  ],
  "notSameAs": [
    {
      "slug": "ai-overview-inclusion",
      "why": "A cited page is a URL an answer engine sourced; AI Overview inclusion is presence in Google's on-SERP answer box, measured on a different dataset. The verb descriptions open by disclaiming the swap."
    },
    {
      "slug": "prompt-citation-count",
      "why": "Page grain versus prompt grain. One page can be cited across many prompts and one prompt can cite many pages, so neither total decomposes cleanly into the other."
    },
    {
      "slug": "ai-avg-citation-position",
      "why": "How often a page is cited and where it sits when cited are separate readings, a page can hold the top slot on one prompt and be absent everywhere else.",
      "mirroredFrom": "ai-avg-citation-position"
    },
    {
      "slug": "ai-citation-category-mix",
      "why": "The mix is a distribution over content types; the page count is the citation total for one URL. The mix can shift with no change in total citations.",
      "mirroredFrom": "ai-citation-category-mix"
    }
  ],
  "related": [
    "ai-citation-count",
    "ai-avg-citation-position",
    "ai-citation-category-mix",
    "prompt-citation-count"
  ],
  "workflows": [],
  "lastVerified": "2026-08-04"
}