ProductSourcesTrack

The pages behind
the answers.

Every AI answer cites a few pages. Crux counts them daily: whose pages the answers lean on, and how much of it is yours.

01How it works

From one answer’s links
to where you publish next.

Asked, every link kept

Every answer kept word for word, with the pages it cites.

Counted, and compared

Every page and site counted, and set against the days before.

Where a post would count

Cited sites that take a post, where rivals beat you, first.

What the answers took

The sentence each answer wrote before linking a site.

02Cited

Who the answers cite.

Your site, your rivals’, publications, forums: one bar shows whose pages the engines lean on.

Who the answers cite

1,842 citations to 214 sites, by the kind of site.

The most cited of 214 sites

  1. dev.toEditorial platform 212
  2. reddit.comSocial / Forum 176
  3. stackoverflow.blogBlog 141

Your site’s share

6.0%

↑ 0.8 pts vs the days before

111 citations of 6 pages. Answers cite rivals’ own sites 166 times.

Your most cited pages

  1. A guide to code review52
  2. Actions quickstart29
  3. 4 more pages30

03Moving

What is gaining,
and what is slipping.

Every site and page against the days before, with your own pages marked.

  1. A guide to code review Your pagegithub.blog/developer-skills/code-review 34 → 52↑ 18
  2. Best Git hosting for teamsdev.to/best-git-hosting-for-teams 37 → 49↑ 12
  3. Actions quickstart Your pagedocs.github.com/actions/quickstart 20 → 29↑ 9
  4. Code review at scalestackoverflow.blog/code-review-at-scale 34 → 38↑ 4

04Publish

Where a post
would count.

The cited sites that take a post, ranked where your rivals are named most ahead of you.

  1. Cited sites214
  2. Can take a post96
  3. In orderBiggest gap first
  • stackshare.io Niche publicationGitLab named in 19 of 27; you in 2 · 27 answers, 5 questions
  • techradar.com News / MediaBitbucket named in 14 of 22; you in 3 · 22 answers, 6 questions
  • dev.to Editorial platformGitLab named in 81 of 140; you in 74 · 140 answers, 31 questions

05Proof

What the answers
took from it.

Open any site to read what each answer wrote before linking it.

stackshare.ioNiche publication

GitLab is named in 19 of 27 answers, you in 2

What AI took

  • GitLab bundles CI/CD and planning in one app, and it can be self-hosted. ×3 ChatGPT · 27 Oct · git platform with ci cd built in
  • Teams choosing a host usually weigh free private repositories against built-in pipelines. Perplexity · 24 Oct · which git platform has the best free plan for private repos
  • Bitbucket links each pull request to its Jira issue. Gemini · 22 Oct · git hosting with the best code review tools

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