Top Cited Pages

Top Cited Pages shows which resolved web pages are cited most often in the AI responses monitored by Wheremore.

Use it to identify the sources AI platforms rely on, compare which platforms contribute citations to each page and find whether your own website appears among the most frequently cited destinations.

What the table measures

For each selected monitoring date, Wheremore:

selects the newest processed response for each configuration, question and platform;
applies the selected Provider Position;
finds citations attached to the qualifying providers;
applies the selected Citation Position;
uses the resolved destination of each citation;
combines equivalent versions of the same page; and
counts distinct citations and distinct monitored conversations.

Pages are ranked by the number of distinct qualifying citations they received.

What counts as a cited page

A citation must have a usable resolved destination URL before it can appear in this table.

Direct source URLs are normally available immediately. Some AI Search platforms return temporary or opaque redirect URLs. Wheremore’s citation resolver must identify the final publisher destination before those citations can be ranked as pages.

An unresolved citation can still contribute to citation totals elsewhere in AI Visibility, but it does not appear as a page in Top Cited Pages. This prevents temporary redirect services from being mistaken for frequently cited publishers.

How page versions are combined

Wheremore groups common variants of the same destination.

It:

treats www.example.com and example.com as the same host;
treats HTTP and HTTPS versions as the same destination;
removes a trailing slash;
collapses repeated path slashes; and
ignores query strings such as UTM parameters.

For example, these URLs are grouped as one cited page:

https://example.com/research ;
https://www.example.com/research/ ; and
https://example.com/research?utm_source=newsletter .

Different paths remain separate pages.

Provider Position and Citation Position

The table uses two position controls.

Provider Position

Provider Position comes from the global AI Visibility controls. It limits which structured providers can supply qualifying citations:

Mentioned Anywhere — providers at any valid position;
Top 3 Recommendations — providers ranked first, second or third; or
#1 Recommendation — only the first-ranked provider.

Citation Position

Citation Position appears within the Top Cited Pages section. It limits the citation ranks that count:

Any Citation — citations at any stored position;
Top 3 Citations — citation ranks 1, 2 or 3; or
Primary Citation — citation rank 1.

The controls apply sequentially.

For example, Top 3 Recommendations with Primary Citation ranks the primary citations attached to providers appearing in the first three recommendation positions.

Choose a citation scope

All Citations

Includes all resolved citation destinations attached to providers that pass Provider Position.

Use this to understand the overall publisher and source landscape.

Your Brand Mentions

Includes resolved citations attached to structured provider appearances matching the aliases under Your Brands in AI Visibility Settings.

The provider name must match a configured brand or product alias. The cited destination can be your website or a third-party source.

Use this to see which pages AI platforms use as evidence when they mention or recommend your brands.

Your Brand URLs

Includes resolved citations whose destination host matches a website associated with the selected project.

The match is host-based. It accepts the configured domain and its subdomains, but does not count another website merely because your brand appears in its page path.

Use this to identify which pages on your own website receive citations.

Your Brand Mentions and Your Brand URLs answer different questions:

Brand Mentions starts with who the AI response names.
Brand URLs starts with where the citation points.

Latest responses and retries

Provider calls may be retried or reprocessed.

For each configuration, question, platform and monitoring date, Wheremore uses only the newest processed run. Older attempts do not add citations to the table.

This prevents retries from inflating page totals.

Before data appears

The selected project needs:

an AI Visibility monitoring configuration;
one or more monitoring questions;
selected AI platforms;
completed and processed monitoring responses;
structured providers and citations; and
resolved citation destinations.

The Your Brand Mentions scope also needs aliases under Your Brands.

The Your Brand URLs scope also needs a monitored website associated with the project’s configurations.

Quick start

Open the AI Visibility Dashboard.
Select a project.
Choose a date range.
Leave Journey Phase, Configuration and Platform on their all-values settings.
Set Provider Position to Mentioned Anywhere.
Open the dashboard tables and select Top Cited Pages.
Set Citation Position to Any Citation.
Select All Citations.
Review the highest-ranked destinations.
Compare All Citations with Your Brand Mentions and Your Brand URLs.

Apply the dashboard filters

Project

Project selects the monitoring configurations, responses, brand aliases and associated websites used by the table.

Only projects available in the active workspace can be selected.

Date Range

Choose a preset period or a custom start and end date.

Dates use UTC calendar dates and custom boundaries are inclusive. Last 30 Days means today and the preceding 29 UTC dates.

Journey Phase

Choose all phases or restrict the evidence to:

Awareness;
Consideration; or
Decision.

This can reveal whether AI platforms rely on different sources as buyers progress through the journey.

Configuration

Choose all configurations or one monitoring configuration.

This can isolate a particular audience, product, market context or question set. Disabling a configuration stops future scheduling but does not remove its completed historical responses.

Platform

Choose all platforms or one platform.

Supported platform labels are:

ChatGPT;
ChatGPT Search;
Claude;
Claude Search;
Gemini;
Gemini Search;
Perplexity; and
Perplexity Search; and
Google AI Mode.

Provider Position

Provider Position limits which providers can contribute citations.

Start with Mentioned Anywhere. Compare Top 3 and #1 to see whether the cited source landscape changes when only prominent recommendations qualify.

Citation Position

Citation Position limits the citation ranks that count.

Start with Any Citation. Compare Top 3 Citations and Primary Citation to identify the sources given the greatest prominence.

Scope

Use:

All Citations for the complete resolved source landscape;
Your Brand Mentions for citations supporting appearances of your configured brands; or
Your Brand URLs for citations pointing to an associated website.

Read each row

Each row contains:

rank;
resolved page URL;
destination domain;
number of distinct citations;
number of distinct monitored conversations;
a Your Brand badge when the destination belongs to an associated website; and
citation share by platform.

The page metadata already shows its hard totals, for example 12 citations and 5 conversations.

Each measured platform row now shows 41.7% alongside 5 of 12. The percentage is the platform’s citation share, while the counts show that the platform supplied five of the page’s twelve qualifying citations.

The table returns up to ten pages.

Understand the platform percentages

The platform bars show the platform’s share of citations to that page:

distinct citations from the platform ÷ distinct citations to the page across the represented platforms × 100

For example, if a page has 20 qualifying citations and 12 came from Gemini, Gemini’s bar shows 60%.

The row also displays 12 of 20 beside the percentage so the numerator and denominator are visible.

This is citation share, not citation rate.

It does not mean 60% of Gemini responses cited the page. It means Gemini contributed 60% of the qualifying citation records counted for that page.

When the dashboard is filtered to one platform, that platform’s share will normally be 100%.

Understand citations and conversations

One monitored conversation can cite the same destination through several responses or providers.

The row therefore reports two different measures:

citations — distinct qualifying citation records pointing to the page;
conversations — distinct configuration-and-question combinations that cited the page.

A page with 20 citations from two conversations is heavily cited within a narrow question set. A page with 20 citations from fifteen conversations has broader coverage across monitored buyer questions.

How pages are ranked

Pages are ordered by:

highest distinct citation count;
highest distinct conversation count when citation totals tie; and
URL alphabetically when both counts tie.

Only the first ten pages are displayed.

Understand 0% and “—”

These states have different meanings:

0% — the platform was represented in the selected monitoring evidence but contributed no citation to this page.
— — the platform was not represented for the row under the returned evidence.

An em dash is unmeasured data, not poor citation performance.

Historical configurations

Completed responses remain eligible when a configuration is disabled.

Disabling a configuration stops future scheduling; it does not remove its historical citation evidence from a selected date range.

How settings changes affect the table

Your Brand Mentions uses the current aliases under Your Brands when matching stored structured providers.

Your Brand URLs uses the websites associated with the project’s configurations.

Changing aliases or website associations can therefore change the applicable scopes without changing the original response.

What the table does not measure

Top Cited Pages does not determine:

whether a citation supports the AI platform’s claim;
whether the AI response is factually correct;
source authority or trustworthiness;
whether a citation generated a visit;
whether a cited page ranks in traditional search;
overall citation rate;
Share of Voice;
brand sentiment;
conversions; or
causation.

It measures which resolved destination pages receive the largest number of qualifying citations under the selected filters.

What should I do next?

Open highly cited sources and assess their relevance, authority and accuracy.
Use AI Platform Conversation Responses to read the answers containing the citations.
Use its Cites your domain filter to inspect individual responses citing your website.
Use Top Cited Conversations to find the monitored questions producing the strongest body of brand-linked evidence.
Use Citation Rate Analysis to compare how frequently platforms provide citations.
Use Top Conversations to compare cited sources with general brand visibility.
Use Worst Conversations to find questions where your brands are absent.
Review first-party pages receiving citations and keep their claims, evidence and update dates clear.
Study frequently cited third-party pages to understand the evidence AI platforms prefer.
Review AI Visibility Settings if brand aliases or associated websites are missing.

Data timing

The table is not real time.

Monitoring runs on each configuration’s selected processing days. Results appear after provider calls finish, raw responses are processed and citation destinations are resolved.

The newest monitoring date may be incomplete while jobs remain pending, running, saved as raw responses, waiting for structured processing or waiting for citation resolution.

Google AI Mode sources can appear as answer-level evidence. The same page may support several answer sections; Wheremore deduplicates the page for ranking while retaining its recorded appearances. Sources are not automatically attributed to a mentioned provider, and domain ownership comes from the resolved URL and configured monitored domain.

Troubleshooting

Select a project appears

Select a project in the global dashboard controls.
Confirm the active workspace.
Confirm you can access the project.
Allow the project selector to finish loading.
Reload if the table loaded before the global controls.

No cited pages are found

Increase the date range.
Return Journey Phase, Configuration and Platform to their all-values settings.
Set Provider Position to Mentioned Anywhere.
Set Citation Position to Any Citation.
Select All Citations.
Confirm monitoring responses completed.
Confirm structured citations were extracted.
Allow the citation resolver to process opaque search-provider links.

Your Brands is not configured

Select Configure on the AI Visibility Dashboard.
Add the required company and product aliases under Your Brands.
Save the settings.
Reload the table if it does not refresh automatically.

No brand website is configured

Confirm the monitoring configuration has the correct domain.
Confirm the domain belongs to the selected project.
Save the configuration and reload the table.

A known citation is missing

Check whether the source still has an opaque or unresolved redirect URL.
Confirm it falls within the selected date and platform filters.
Broaden Provider Position and Citation Position.
Select All Citations.
Inspect the underlying response in AI Platform Conversation Responses.

A page total is lower than an overall citation total

Top Cited Pages requires a resolved destination URL. Unresolved citations can remain in overall citation metrics without being rankable as pages.

The table also deduplicates retries and counts distinct citation records.

Similar URLs are shown as one page

The table deliberately ignores HTTP versus HTTPS, www , trailing slashes and query strings when grouping pages.

Different paths remain separate.

Your Brand Mentions includes a third-party website

This is expected. The scope starts with a provider matching Your Brands, then counts its attached citations. Those citations may point to first-party or third-party sources.

Use Your Brand URLs to restrict destinations to an associated website.

Your Brand URLs omits a page mentioning the brand

The scope uses the destination host, not words in the URL path. A page on another website does not become a brand URL merely because its path contains your brand name.

A platform shows 0%

The platform was represented under the selected filters but contributed no qualifying citation to this page.

A platform shows “—”

The platform was not represented for that row under the returned evidence. Do not interpret the em dash as zero citation performance.

A platform shows 100%

Check whether the dashboard is filtered to one platform. With one platform selected, it owns the entire filtered citation denominator.

Citation data could not be loaded

Select Retry.
Confirm the project belongs to the active workspace.
Confirm your session remains signed in.
Try a shorter date range or broader filter set.
Record the selected filters and time if support is required.