> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.mentionlab.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.
# Sources
> See which websites AI platforms cite, and how much of that content mentions your brand
When an AI platform cites its sources, those citations are the supply chain of your visibility.
The **Sources** page (**Analysis → Sources**) shows which domains get cited for your queries, and —
more usefully — how much of the cited content actually mentions you.
## Citation rate
A time series of the top five cited domains, plotted as the percentage of AI responses citing each
one. Switch buckets with the **Daily** / **Weekly** / **Monthly** selector.
## Top cited domains
A compact top-20 list of domains with their citation rate — the fastest read of "who does the AI
trust in my category".
## Source type distribution
A single stacked bar splitting citations by category. Four axes to choose from:
| Axis | Buckets |
| ------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Type** | News & Press, Blog & Editorial, Reviews & Comparison, Encyclopedic & Reference, Academic & Research, Education & Learning, Community & UGC, Social Media, Video, Corporate / Official site, E-commerce & Marketplace, Government & Public institution, Association & NGO, Other |
| **Group** | Editorial & Media, Knowledge & Reference, Community & Social, Commercial, Institutional, Other |
| **Relationship** | Owned, Competitor, Partner / Affiliate, Independent / Third-party |
| **Controllability** | Owned, Earnable, Hard / Low-control, Unknown |
**Controllability** is the actionable one. *Owned* is your own estate, *Earnable* is where PR and
content can plausibly move the needle (news, blogs, reviews, communities, video, marketplaces),
and *Hard / Low-control* is where they can't (encyclopedias, academic work, government).
This card is in beta.
## Sources overview
The full grid — "detailed metrics for all sources citing your entity and competitors".
| Column | Meaning |
| --------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Source** | The domain |
| **Category** | Source-type category for this domain |
| **Citation rate** | Percentage of AI responses that cite this source |
| **Citation share** | This domain's portion of all source citations |
| **Entity cit. share** | This domain's portion of all brand source citations |
| **Presence** | Share of this domain's distinct cited pages that mention your brand |
| **True reach** | Share of this domain's citations that reference your brand |
Search matches the **domain name only** — not page titles, URLs or category labels. The **Category**
facet filters the grid, and ⋮ → **Export current as CSV** downloads the visible page plus every URL
belonging to those domains, as two files.
Three of these columns count three different things. **Citation rate** counts distinct AI
responses, **Presence** and **Entity cit. share** count distinct page URLs, and **True reach**
counts raw citation rows. A domain can legitimately show high Presence and low True reach at the
same time.
Share columns are shares of the **whole project**, not of the filtered rows. Narrowing by category
or search does not rescale them to 100%.
The **Presence** cell shows a ratio like `12/40`, not a percentage — the colour band comes from
the percentage, and sorting sorts by the percentage.
## Domain detail
Click any row to open the detail sheet:
* **Source stats** — Responses citing this domain, Total page citations, Entity page citations,
and Presence.
* **Competitors** — one badge per competitor found on that domain, showing its true reach. This is
how you find the sites that cite your competitors and ignore you.
* **URL table** — every cited page on the domain, with its citation share, entity citation share,
the entities detected on it, and a scrape success/error badge. A green dot means your brand was
found on that page.
Expand any URL row to see which of your queries produced that citation.
## Source categories
Each domain resolves to exactly one type category, in this order:
1. A project-specific override you set
2. The global category assigned by MentionLab's automatic categoriser
3. `Other`
To override one, go to **Project settings → Domain Categories**. Uncategorised domains always show
as **Other**, never blank.
**Relationship** (Owned / Competitor / Partner / Independent) is stored per project; a domain with
no relationship set counts as Independent. **Controllability** is derived from type and
relationship — it is never stored and cannot be edited directly.
## Interaction with "View as"
A **View as** pin re-scopes the **Sources overview** grid and the URL drill-down to that brand — so
"Entity cit. share", "Presence" and "True reach" become that brand's numbers. The citation-rate
timeseries and the type-distribution bar deliberately ignore the pin, since they describe the
citation landscape rather than any one brand.