ObsurfableReports
Data and analysis on AI citation share, domain rankings, and benchmarks.
Top Domains Cited by LLMs: September 2026
Ahrefs Brand Radar's September snapshots show Reddit overtaking YouTube on Perplexity for the first time, google.com rising to 12.5% in AI Mode, and ChatGPT leaning harder on health and institutional sources as dictionary sites fall back.
What AI recommends for developer tools
Early findings from the Obsurfable Explorer research corpus — buyer-style prompts across developer tools and SaaS categories.
Top Domains Cited by LLMs: August 2026
Ahrefs Brand Radar's latest monthly snapshots put Reddit at 16.7% of ChatGPT citations and YouTube at 31.2% of Perplexity's. Here is the August 2026 leaderboard by platform — and what moved since July.
Top Domains Cited by LLMs: July 2026
A data-backed look at which domains ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and Google AI Overviews cite most in 2026, why Reddit and Wikipedia dominate, and what the citation distribution means for AI visibility.
The Rise of AI Answers and Zero-Click Search
Search is shifting from clicks to citations. AI-driven “answer engines” are rapidly changing how people find information online. Recent research shows zero-click searches now exceed 50–60% of all searches.
AI's Most Cited Domains - Top 50
Citation share of the top 50 domains across industries based on 5.7 million citations. Data from September 2025.