Citation gap
Citation gap compares your page with the pages Google cites in its AI Overview for your question, or with the top results when there is none, on the structure that makes a page easy to quote. Each finding is a concrete difference between your page and the pages chosen.
At a glance
- Ladder layer
- P4 Authority signals
Is the page worth citing? - Where it is measured
- Reviewed audit
Explore the audit - What we need from you
- The buyer questions agreed with you
Reading the result
What good looks like, and what a problem looks like.
Good
Your page matches the cited pages on structure, depth, dates and authorship.
Not measured
When this cannot be checked, the result says so and leaves it out of the score. Unknown is not zero.
Typical problems
- Most cited pages declare a type of structured data that your page lacks.
- Your page is much shorter than the cited pages.
- The cited pages show a date and author; yours does not.
What it cannot prove
- The comparison is about structure. It does not explain why Google chose a source.
Related dimensions