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title: "Sources"
description: "The URLs ChatGPT and Google AI Overview rely on to generate their answers — collected from all the prompts in your account, ranked by how often they're cited."
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# Sources

Sources shows every URL cited by ChatGPT and Google AI Overview across your tracked prompts — the content they actually used to formulate their answers. It’s the difference between knowing you appear in 40% of prompts and knowing exactly which 571 URLs are shaping AI responses in your category. That specificity is what turns visibility data into an actionable content strategy.

![Airefs Sources panel showing 1,700 URLs cited, sorted by citation count, with type labels, domain names, first seen and last seen dates](/img/blog/airefs-review/sources.png)

Sources panel — cited URLs sorted by frequency, with type, owner, and date metadata

Source data only appears after you’ve added and run prompts in your account.

Sources has three views: **URLs**, **Domains**, and **Prompts**. Filter by type (article, Reddit thread, review, video…) or by owner (your site, competitor, third party). Export any view to CSV.

![Airefs Sources URLs tab showing cited URLs ranked by count, with Type badge (Article, Wiki, Other), domain favicon, title, and first and last seen dates](/img/blog/airefs-review/sources-urls.png)

URLs tab — every cited page ranked by frequency, with type and date metadata

![Airefs Sources Domains tab showing domains ranked by citation count with URL count, domain name, and first and last seen dates](/img/blog/airefs-review/sources-domains.png)

Domains tab — publishers ranked by total citations across all your prompts

![Airefs Sources Prompts tab showing each prompt with its cited sources listed below, including article titles, URLs, mention and citation counts](/img/blog/airefs-review/sources-prompts.png)

Prompts tab — sources grouped by the prompt they appeared in

The **Domains** tab aggregates by publisher — useful for understanding which sites dominate your category. The **Prompts** tab groups sources by query, so you can see exactly what content shapes answers for each prompt. Expand any row to see all cited URLs for that prompt.

## See which prompts a source influences

Hover any citation count badge to see every prompt that cites that source — with citation count, date, and country for each.

A source cited across 20 different prompts is far more strategically important than one cited 20 times in a single query. This breakdown makes that distinction instant.

![Hovering a source's citation badge reveals a list of prompts it influences, with citation count, date, and country for each](/img/blog/airefs-review/sources-hover-prompts.png)

Hover a source to see every prompt it shapes — citation count, date, and country shown for each

The smart filter surfaces the most actionable subsets: **Cited often** highlights high-frequency sources. **Competitive gap** isolates competitor-owned content. **Brand mentioned** and **None mentioned** filter by whether your brand appears in that source.

## Identify content to create

Look at the URLs and article types that appear most often. If “15 Best \[Category\] Tools for 2026” listicles dominate your category’s citations, that’s the format to target.

If the top-cited article is outdated, that’s an opening — a fresher, more comprehensive piece can displace it. Match the format and intent of what the AI currently cites, but make yours better.

## Find quick brand mention wins

Look for URLs where you could secure a brand mention — review sites, comparison articles, Reddit threads. Getting your brand into a highly-cited source can lift your mention rate across many prompts at once, without publishing anything new.

## Reading the filters

-   **Comment opportunities** — filters to commentable sources (Reddit threads, LinkedIn posts, Medium articles). These feed directly into [Discussions](/docs/discussions/) and are the highest-leverage items for quick brand visibility gains.
-   **Owner: yours** — see which of your own pages are being cited and how often. The pages that do get cited are your strongest-performing content in AI search — double down on them.
-   **Owner: competitor** — see exactly what content is working for them. The Domains tab shows which publishers are most influential — useful for prioritising outreach.
-   **By prompt** — isolate which sources drive answers for a specific query.

Source: /docs/sources/