{
  "slug": "prompt-cited-pages-count",
  "name": "Cited pages per prompt",
  "aliases": [
    "Cited pages count",
    "Pages cited in the answer"
  ],
  "definition": "How many of your pages the answer to one tracked prompt drew on, the measure the coverage-gap and citation-attribution rankings are built from.",
  "category": "AI visibility",
  "type": "raw measure",
  "unit": "cited pages",
  "direction": "higher-better",
  "verification": "verified",
  "calculation": "A distinct count of your customer pages per prompt. The coverage-gap verb sorts it ascending, the attribution verb sorts it descending; both read the same measure on the same dataset.",
  "aggregation": "Reported per prompt and ranked, not summed into a total, the same page cited on two prompts would be counted twice by a naive sum.",
  "grain": "One prompt for one tracked segment over one date range.",
  "dimensions": [
    "prompt",
    "intent",
    "answer engine",
    "branded vs non-branded"
  ],
  "requiredFilters": [
    "tracked segment id or tracker",
    "date range"
  ],
  "sources": [
    "ai-visibility",
    "rank-tracking"
  ],
  "reports": [],
  "skills": [
    "ai-prompt-coverage-gaps",
    "aeo-audit",
    "ai-citation-monitoring"
  ],
  "verbs": [
    "ai_prompt_coverage_gap",
    "ai_citation_attribution"
  ],
  "rungs": [
    "R2",
    "R3"
  ],
  "levers": [
    "L7",
    "L5"
  ],
  "questions": [
    "Which AI prompts do not cite us?",
    "Which prompts cite us most?",
    "Where are our AI-answer coverage gaps?"
  ],
  "interpretation": "Sorted ascending it is the coverage-gap list; sorted descending it is the attribution list. The same measure answers both questions, which is why the two verbs return the same field in opposite order.",
  "caveats": [
    "A distinct count of pages, not of citations, the same page cited three times on one prompt counts once.",
    "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.",
    "A gap where every winner is third-party content is earned media rather than a brief for a new page.",
    "Every figure is scoped to a tracked prompt basket, a sample, not a census, so the basket's coverage belongs beside the number it produced.",
    "Prompt-level mention and sentiment enrichment is best-effort: when that leg fails the coverage answer still returns, with the mention columns empty rather than zero.",
    "Both verbs require the market-share source; without it they return a stated note rather than rows."
  ],
  "freshness": "~1 day behind, Daily prompt runs, available the following day.",
  "failureModes": [
    "Reading a zero as absence from the answer engine when the tracker has no segment for the requested engine, the verb returns an explicit no-data note for that case, and the note is the answer.",
    "Summing cited pages across prompts into a distinct-page total."
  ],
  "notSameAs": [
    {
      "slug": "prompt-citation-count",
      "why": "Pages versus citation events. A prompt that cites one page three times has one cited page and three citations."
    }
  ],
  "related": [
    "prompt-citation-count",
    "prompt-citation-share"
  ],
  "workflows": [],
  "lastVerified": "2026-08-04"
}