Most "state of AI citations" reports pull numbers from Profound, Semrush, or Peec AI and repackage them. We did something different: we pulled our own Microsoft Clarity AI Visibility dashboard on three dated snapshots, four months apart (June 29, July 25, October 16, 2026), and reported exactly what it showed.
The findings
- One page went from 0 citations in a documented July check to 2,692 citations by October, the most-cited page on the site. Nothing about the page's URL, topic, or publish date changed.
- Our previous #1 page, which drove 55.3% of all July citations (14,890 of them), collapsed to just 18. The citations moved to two narrower pages once Copilot's query phrasing got more specific, not lost to competitors.
- Site-wide, total citations moved 728 -> 26,903 -> 15,178 across the three snapshots, but Share of Authority actually rose from 19.84% to 23.86% even as raw volume fell.
- One query we track (SDR and lead-gen data API buyer searches) has been stuck at 2.33% share for three straight months, a real gap, not noise.
This measures Microsoft Copilot and Bing only. ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude don't expose equivalent citation data to any outside tool, including this one.
Full report, methodology, and how this compares to the Profound/5WPR and HarperFlow 2026 studies: The State of AI Citations 2026
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