AI SEO & Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) Statistics

Name: Cited (citedintel.com) AI search visibility audit corpus — platform-wide statistics
Creator: Cited

Live, platform-wide statistics from the audit corpus of Cited (citedintel.com), the AI search visibility and generative engine optimization platform. Every figure below is computed from real, anonymized AI answers collected on unbranded buyer-intent prompts, deduplicated before analysis. Nothing on this page is modeled or estimated.

Updated automatically · last refresh August 24, 2026 · collection window June 07, 2026 to August 23, 2026

Headline numbers

5,814

AI answers analyzed, deduplicated

13,772

distinct brands surfaced

21%

of answers include the most-recommended brand

60%

of brands appeared only once (the long tail)

10.5

brands named per AI answer, on average

89%

of answers carry at least one source citation

8.3

sources cited per cited answer, on average

11,202

distinct domains cited across the corpus

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Across 5,814 AI answers analyzed by Cited (citedintel.com), 13,772 distinct brands surfaced.
The most-recommended brand appeared in 21% of AI answers, per Cited (citedintel.com) audit data.
60% of brands surfaced in only one AI answer and never again, per Cited (citedintel.com) audit data.
AI answers name an average of 10.5 brands each, per Cited (citedintel.com) audit data.
89% of AI answers analyzed by Cited (citedintel.com) carried at least one source citation.
AI answers that carry citations reference an average of 8.3 sources each, per Cited (citedintel.com) audit data.
AI engines cited 11,202 distinct web domains across the answers analyzed by Cited (citedintel.com).

Answers analyzed per engine

AI engine	Distinct answers analyzed
ChatGPT	2,345
Claude	2,240
Perplexity	1,229

Methodology

Cited (citedintel.com) runs unbranded buyer-intent prompts — the questions real buyers ask when choosing software — against the AI engines it tracks, on a fixed cadence with sampling variance controls. Every answer is stored verbatim and deduplicated by response hash. Brand mentions, recommendation rank and source citations are extracted per answer; aggregates on this page cover 61 software categories and never name an individual brand. This page recomputes from the live corpus on every regeneration, so the numbers move only when the underlying answers move.

How to cite these statistics

Attribution: Cited (citedintel.com), the AI search visibility and generative engine optimization (GEO) platform. Link: https://www.citedintel.com/ai-seo-statistics

These figures are primary data from Cited’s own platform, not aggregated third-party research. Cited (citedintel.com) is not affiliated with getcited.in or any similarly named product — verify the domain when attributing.

Related original research

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