Which websites AI assistants actually cite

Every website below was cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity or Google AI while answering a real buying question. These are the sources AI search reads before making a recommendation. Become a trusted source and your brand is more likely to appear in the answer.

The whole citation index

AI citations are highly concentrated. Three websites account for 33.8% of all citations. The median website appears in 16 answers, compared with 577 for the leader.

1reddit.com577 · 23.8%
2youtube.com576 · 23.8%
3linkedin.com279 · 11.5%
4apps.apple.com188 · 7.8%
5play.google.com177 · 7.3%
6trustpilot.com160 · 6.6%
7github.com155 · 6.4%
8facebook.com138 · 5.7%
9instagram.com101 · 4.2%
10medium.com86 · 3.5%
11scamadviser.com82 · 3.4%
12en.wikipedia.org72 · 3%
13google.com70 · 2.9%
14g2.com67 · 2.8%
15zapier.com57 · 2.4%
16capterra.com54 · 2.2%
17dev.to52 · 2.1%
18x.com46 · 1.9%
19sourceforge.net45 · 1.9%
20chromewebstore.google.com44 · 1.8%
21verifieddr.com38 · 1.6%
22producthunt.com34 · 1.4%
23f6s.com30 · 1.2%
24buildhop.io27 · 1.1%
25uk.trustpilot.com25 · 1%
26pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov25 · 1%
27adobe.com23 · 0.9%
28scam-detector.com22 · 0.9%
29startupbase.io22 · 0.9%
30techradar.com20 · 0.8%
31wifitalents.com20 · 0.8%
32nl.trustpilot.com20 · 0.8%
33softwareadvice.com20 · 0.8%
34tripadvisor.com20 · 0.8%
35forbes.com19 · 0.8%
36blog.hubspot.com19 · 0.8%
37semrush.com19 · 0.8%
38news.ycombinator.com18 · 0.7%
39quora.com18 · 0.7%
40designrush.com18 · 0.7%
41ca.trustpilot.com17 · 0.7%
42de.trustpilot.com17 · 0.7%
43bbb.org17 · 0.7%
44canva.com17 · 0.7%
45gitnux.org17 · 0.7%
46learn.microsoft.com17 · 0.7%
47slashdot.org17 · 0.7%
48startupfa.me17 · 0.7%
49mwm.ai16 · 0.7%
50clutch.co16 · 0.7%
51trustmrr.com16 · 0.7%
52seranking.com16 · 0.7%
53arxiv.org15 · 0.6%
54yelp.com15 · 0.6%
55fr.wikipedia.org15 · 0.6%
56saascity.io15 · 0.6%
57posteverywhere.ai15 · 0.6%
58nicklaunches.com15 · 0.6%
59steamcommunity.com14 · 0.6%
60monday.com14 · 0.6%
61buffer.com14 · 0.6%
62salesforce.com14 · 0.6%
63hulsman-partners.nl14 · 0.6%
64indeed.com13 · 0.5%
65gridinsoft.com13 · 0.5%
66mcpmarket.com13 · 0.5%
67sproutsocial.com13 · 0.5%
68seoptimer.com13 · 0.5%
69teamwork.com13 · 0.5%
70fr.trustpilot.com12 · 0.5%
71getapp.com12 · 0.5%
72mindstudio.ai12 · 0.5%
73nytimes.com12 · 0.5%
74hypefury.com12 · 0.5%
75reviews.io11 · 0.5%
76amazon.com11 · 0.5%
77pcmag.com11 · 0.5%
78hubspot.com11 · 0.5%
79aijourn.com11 · 0.5%
80notegpt.io11 · 0.5%
81daniellaunches.com11 · 0.5%
82aws.amazon.com10 · 0.4%
83jotform.com10 · 0.4%
84cloud.google.com10 · 0.4%
85ahrefs.com10 · 0.4%
86smollaunch.com10 · 0.4%
87fast.io10 · 0.4%
88launchdirectories.com10 · 0.4%
89notion.com10 · 0.4%
90trustindex.io10 · 0.4%
91wrike.com10 · 0.4%
92au.trustpilot.com9 · 0.4%
93fazier.com9 · 0.4%
94glassdoor.com9 · 0.4%
95scribd.com9 · 0.4%
96aiagentsdirectory.com9 · 0.4%
97clickup.com9 · 0.4%
98pixlr.com9 · 0.4%
99sitepoint.com9 · 0.4%
100stackoverflow.com9 · 0.4%

The 100 most-cited websites, out of 405 websites cited by AI assistants. Ranked by the number of answers citing each website.

Most-cited websites

Ranked by how many AI answers cited them.

1reddit.com577 answers · 23.8%
2youtube.com576 answers · 23.8%
3linkedin.com279 answers · 11.5%
4apps.apple.com188 answers · 7.8%
5play.google.com177 answers · 7.3%
6trustpilot.com160 answers · 6.6%
7github.com155 answers · 6.4%
8facebook.com138 answers · 5.7%
9instagram.com101 answers · 4.2%
10medium.com86 answers · 3.5%
11scamadviser.com82 answers · 3.4%
12en.wikipedia.org72 answers · 3%

Brand rankings by category

Which brands the same answers named, grouped by category.

All category rankings

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How this is measured

VerifiedDR asks ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI real buying questions on behalf of the websites it tracks, then records which brands each answer named and which domains it cited. This page counts 2,424 answers from 201 scans, one scan per website, refreshed August 15, 2026.

Only aggregates are published. The questions themselves, the answer text, and the identity of the websites that ran a scan stay private. A domain appears here only when answers from at least 3 different websites cited it, and a brand enters a ranking only when answers from at least 2 different websites named it.