What AI assistants actually cite
Updated daily. The same prompts run against five assistants every day, so a change on one is visible against the other four.
reddit.com's share of citations, by assistant
Share of all cited sources, 7-day rolling average
Claude stops where we no longer see enough daily activity to report a share. The line ends rather than continuing at zero, which would claim a measurement we do not have.
google.com rose from 9.5% to 10.8% of Google AI Mode citations over the past week.
What kinds of sources get cited
ChatGPT
- Other source
- 71.2%
- Institutional
- 13.3%
- Reference
- 10.3%
- Community
- 2.8%
- Editorial
- 2.5%
Perplexity
- Other source
- 83.7%
- Community
- 7.4%
- Institutional
- 4.9%
- Editorial
- 2.4%
- Reference
- 1.7%
Gemini
- Other source
- 75.9%
- Community
- 17.0%
- Institutional
- 4.1%
- Editorial
- 2.5%
- Reference
- 0.4%
Google AI Mode
- Other source
- 82.0%
- Community
- 13.8%
- Editorial
- 1.9%
- Reference
- 1.5%
- Institutional
- 0.7%
Measured over the past 7 days. Categories cover the sources we can positively identify; most of the long tail is ordinary business websites.
Biggest moves this week
| Source | Assistant | Share now | Share before | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| google.com | Google AI Mode | 10.8% | 9.5% | +1.3% |
| techradar.com | ChatGPT | 0.4% | 1.6% | -1.2% |
| reddit.com | ChatGPT | 0.4% | 1.2% | -0.8% |
| reddit.com | Google AI Mode | 3.5% | 2.7% | +0.7% |
| reddit.com | Gemini | 5.3% | 4.6% | +0.7% |
| youtube.com | Gemini | 10.5% | 11.0% | -0.5% |
- Sourcegoogle.com
- Assistant
- Google AI Mode
- Change
- +1.3%
- Share now
- 10.8%
- Share before
- 9.5%
- Sourcetechradar.com
- Assistant
- ChatGPT
- Change
- -1.2%
- Share now
- 0.4%
- Share before
- 1.6%
- Sourcereddit.com
- Assistant
- ChatGPT
- Change
- -0.8%
- Share now
- 0.4%
- Share before
- 1.2%
- Sourcereddit.com
- Assistant
- Google AI Mode
- Change
- +0.7%
- Share now
- 3.5%
- Share before
- 2.7%
- Sourcereddit.com
- Assistant
- Gemini
- Change
- +0.7%
- Share now
- 5.3%
- Share before
- 4.6%
- Sourceyoutube.com
- Assistant
- Gemini
- Change
- -0.5%
- Share now
- 10.5%
- Share before
- 11.0%
Each share is averaged across the websites we track, so a change in what is being measured cannot move a line. Days with too little measurement to be meaningful are left out rather than shown as zero.