Sources
Sources is the unified source health surface for a project. It brings citations, owned-domain tracking, AI crawler activity, and AI referrals into one place.
What Sources answers
Use Sources to understand:
- Which domains and URLs AI models cite when mentioning your brands
- Whether owned domains are appearing in citation evidence
- Whether owned-domain tracking is installed and active
- Which AI crawlers are visiting your website
- Whether real users are arriving from AI assistants
Unified source health
Source health combines setup and evidence:
- Citation evidence shows what AI models referenced in their answers.
- Owned-source presence shows whether your own domains are part of that evidence.
- Tracking setup confirms whether Cleotic can detect crawler and referral traffic.
- Crawler and referral metrics show whether AI systems and AI-assisted users are reaching your site.
This keeps the source story in one place instead of splitting citation health from tracking health.
Tracking setup
Sources uses the same tracking setup component as Settings. Add one tracking site per domain or subdomain you want to monitor.
Two collection paths are available:
- Tracking pixel -- records visits from JavaScript-capable AI browsers
- Vercel log drain -- records server-side crawler and referral evidence for Vercel-hosted sites
For strongest coverage, configure both where possible.
Drill-down views
Sources keeps links to the underlying evidence:
- Citation source lists and citation tables
- AI crawler charts and page-level tables
- AI referral charts and landing page tables
- Tracking site setup and snippet details