> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://help.get-ryze.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# AI visibility report

> How to read the Ryze AI visibility report: citations, mentions, share of voice, and per-engine breakdowns, delivered weekly.

The AI visibility report shows how often your brand and pages appear in AI-generated answers across the engines Ryze tracks. Delivered weekly, every Wednesday.

## What it contains

**Citation share** — the proportion of all cited URLs pointing to your domain, and which of your pages earned them.

**Mention rate** — how often your brand was named in answer text, with or without a link.

**Share of voice** — your mentions against every competitor appearing in the same answers.

**Per-engine breakdown** — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Claude, reported separately.

**Per-prompt detail** — which prompts you appeared in, and what was cited instead where you did not.

**Competitor domains** — the full cited field, ranked.

Definitions for each: [AI visibility metrics](/ai-visibility/metrics).

## Reading it

**Read engines separately, never blended.** Perplexity, ChatGPT, and AI Overviews retrieve differently. An average across them hides the structure you would act on.

**Expect Perplexity to move first.** It retrieves aggressively and cites reliably, so content work usually shows there earliest.

**Treat AI Overviews as an SEO output.** If you do not rank in conventional Google results, you will rarely appear in the Overview.

**Start with the prompts where you are absent.** What was cited instead is the actionable finding — usually a page answering the question more directly than anything you have published.

## Volatility

Only a minority of cited URLs repeat between two runs of the same prompt. This is normal engine behaviour, not a tracking fault.

Practical consequences:

* **Week-to-week movement is mostly noise.** Do not react to it.
* **Small numbers behave like small numbers.** 3 to 5 citations is not a 67% improvement.
* **The reliable read is direction across a quarter**, on a stable prompt set.

## Mentions versus citations

These move independently and have different remedies.

Rising citations with flat mentions is the normal and expected early pattern: your content is being found before your brand is established. Content work moves citations. Only sustained third-party presence over many months moves mentions.

Anyone promising fast share-of-voice gains is overclaiming. See [competitor share-of-voice](/ai-visibility/share-of-voice).

## Baseline

The report is only meaningful against a starting point. If you are beginning from zero citations, record that — it is a legitimate baseline and the honest one to measure against.

## Related

* [AI visibility overview](/ai-visibility/overview)
* [Reading the citations report](/ai-visibility/citations-report)
* [Why your brand isn't cited](/ai-visibility/not-cited)