> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: /docs/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Citations > Which websites AI engines cite when they answer your prompts, and how WebGlazer counts Times linked, Reach and the Mentioned? column. A citation is a web page an AI answer actually used. Citations show you which sites shape the answers about your market, so you know where to get featured. ## What it measures WebGlazer groups citations by source, meaning one website host. A subdomain is its own source, so `blog.example.com` and `example.com` are two rows. For each source you get how often AI linked to it, which engines did, how many of your topics it reaches, and whether its pages mention you. Search results an engine looked at but did not use are stored but never counted. ## How it is calculated **Times linked** = the number of answers that cited the source. An answer that cites three pages of the same site counts once for that site. > [!NOTE] > > **Example with made-up numbers.** ChatGPT cites 2 pages of `example.com` in one answer, and Perplexity cites 1 page of it in another answer. Times linked = 2. **Reach** = topics in which the source was cited ÷ all your topics in the view × 100, as a whole percent. The column draws it as five bars, one per 20%. Hover for the exact figure, for example "Cited across 3 of 10 topics · 30%". **Mentioned?** shows how many of the source's checked pages name you, as "found / checked", for example "2 / 5". WebGlazer reads up to the 5 busiest checked pages of each source. The pill's color and icon tell you the result at a glance: | What you see | Meaning | | - | - | | Green pill with a check mark | Every checked page names you. | | Amber pill with a check mark | Some checked pages name you. | | Red pill with an X | No checked page names you. | | Gray **Unknown** | No page on this source has been checked yet. | Hover the pill for the full sentence. ### How pages get checked WebGlazer checks pages of qualifying sources for your brand on its own. Some pages cannot be read this way. To fill those in, open a source on the **Citations** tab, switch to the full page list and click **Check more pages**. See [Citations tab](/docs/dashboard/citations.md#source-detail). Your own site shows **Your site** instead, because checking whether your own page names you means nothing. **Qualifying** sources are the ones cited by at least 3 different engines across at least 3 different prompts, counting non-branded prompts only. A source cited once by one engine is too thin to act on, so it stays off the default list. Qualifying sources get a rank (the # column), most linked first. **Category** is the kind of site, set per source from the newest run: **Your site**, **News & blogs**, **Community & social**, **Competitor site**, **Comparison sites**, **Official sources**, **Paid** or **Other**. A competitor site is a site on the domain of a competitor you declared. Which answers count: successful answers from the run's selected engines, over every run in the selected date range, narrowed by the topic, tag and platform filters. **Times linked** and **Reach** include answers to branded prompts. Only the qualifying bar counts non-branded prompts alone. ## Where you see it ![Citations tab source table with Cited by, Times linked, Reach and Mentioned?](https://mintcdn.com/sia-webglazer/xTXVRghP1Bd03NXs/images/dashboard/wg-citations-2026-11.webp?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=xTXVRghP1Bd03NXs\&q=85\&s=1debe37c8f082825e8738980f4897c9f) Sample data based on a linear.app project * **AI Visibility** > **Citations** tab: the source table, the category bar and the source detail sheet. See [Citations tab](/docs/dashboard/citations.md). * **AI Visibility** > **Platforms** tab: the **Citations** column, times linked per engine. * **AI Visibility** > **Opportunities** tab: qualifying sources that cite your market but do not name you. * The prompt detail sheet > **Sources** tab: the pages cited for one prompt. ## How to read it * Start with qualifying sources whose **Mentioned?** pill is red or amber. AI keeps going back to them and they do not talk about you yet. * High **Reach** means the source matters across many of your topics, not only one. * Check **Cited by**. A source cited by every engine is worth more than one cited only by one. ## What moves it * Getting your brand onto the pages AI cites: reviews, comparison lists, directories and community threads. * Publishing pages that answer the searches AI runs, so your own site gets cited. See [Query Fanouts](/docs/dashboard/fan-out.md). * Your prompts and topics. They decide which answers, and so which sources, are in the pool. ## Related topics - [Citations tab](/docs/dashboard/citations.md) - [Opportunities tab](/docs/dashboard/opportunities.md) - [Query Fanouts](/docs/dashboard/fan-out.md) This documentation is built and hosted on [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com), a developer documentation platform.