The 50 Most-Cited Websites in Perplexity (June 2026)

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Perplexity built its whole reputation on citing its sources, so the sites it leans on tell you a lot about how it answers.

Unlike a general chatbot, Perplexity is an answer engine first: it was designed to respond to questions with linked references up front. That model has found a real audience, with the company reporting hundreds of millions of queries a month and tens of millions of active users worldwide. It’s also unusually candid about sourcing, which makes its citation mix especially revealing.

To map it, we tracked every domain Perplexity cited across a broad set of US queries, then ranked them by mention share — each domain’s slice of all the citations the top sources collectively earn. The leader is www.youtube.com, capturing 32.4% of citations — the most concentrated top source of any assistant we looked at.

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Perplexity Top 10 mention share bar chart

Mention share = a domain’s citations as a percentage of the summed citations of the top sources. Data via Ahrefs Brand Radar · United States, all topics · June 2026.

www.youtube.com 32.4% – 1,797,279 99 2 www.reddit.com 16.6% – 797,846 95 3 en.wikipedia.org 8.2% – 129,855 97 4 www.alibaba.com 5.1% – 168,205 92 5 www.oreateai.com 2.9% – 100,372 72 6 www.etsy.com 1.8% – 105,136 94 7 www.target.com 1.6% – 64,426 91 8 www.linkedin.com 1.4% ▲ 3 50,254 99 9 www.edmunds.com 1.3% – 44,031 86 10 www.walmart.com 1.3% ▼ 2 51,797 92 11 www.healthline.com 1.3% ▼ 1 10,441 92 12 www.facebook.com 1.2% ▲ 2 55,385 100 13 www.kbb.com 1.1% – 30,180 89 14 www.businessinsider.com 1.0% ▲ 2 15,724 92 15 www.bestbuy.com 0.9% ▲ 2 37,931 89 16 www.yelp.com 0.9% ▼ 4 32,798 94 17 carinterior.alibaba.com 0.8% ▲ 4 21,912 92 18 www.goodhousekeeping.com 0.8% ▲ 7 7,273 90 19 www.caranddriver.com 0.8% – 9,108 86 20 www.forbes.com 0.8% ▼ 5 10,380 94 21 www.nerdwallet.com 0.8% ▼ 1 8,988 90 22 www.consumerreports.org 0.8% ▲ 2 11,265 90 23 www.trustpilot.com 0.8% – 20,732 94 24 www.techradar.com 0.8% ▲ 3 10,587 91 25 www.wikiwand.com 0.7% ▲ 12 17,072 85 26 www.webmd.com 0.7% ▼ 4 8,003 92 27 www.cars.com 0.7% ▼ 9 27,099 86 28 www.imdb.com 0.7% ▼ 2 34,390 94 29 www.cnet.com 0.7% ▼ 1 9,901 91 30 www.merriam-webster.com 0.6% – 18,315 91 31 www.pcmag.com 0.6% ▲ 4 6,120 91 32 www.cargurus.com 0.6% – 18,238 78 33 dictionary.cambridge.org 0.6% ▲ 1 18,592 92 34 www.britannica.com 0.6% ▼ 1 12,104 92 35 www.accio.com 0.6% ▼ 6 19,114 75 36 www.tomsguide.com 0.6% ▲ 5 8,595 87 37 www.angi.com 0.6% ▼ 1 6,572 90 38 www.bbb.org 0.6% ▼ 7 22,451 93 39 www.bankrate.com 0.5% ▲ 3 4,167 90 40 www.answers.com 0.5% ▼ 1 16,136 82 41 www.definitions.net 0.5% NEW 14,897 73 42 www.medicalnewstoday.com 0.5% ▲ 3 5,098 91 43 www.lemon8-app.com 0.5% ▲ 5 16,483 80 44 www.scribd.com 0.5% NEW 17,052 91 45 www.cosmopolitan.com 0.5% NEW 6,022 89 46 www.tripadvisor.ca 0.5% NEW 17,010 87 47 www.tastingtable.com 0.5% ▲ 3 9,317 82 48 en.wiktionary.org 0.5% NEW 14,343 91 49 www.lowes.com 0.5% – 15,681 88 50 www.nytimes.com 0.5% ▼ 7 2,981 94
Ahrefs’ Brand Radar, which tracks the responses AI platforms give to a large, search-backed set of real user queries. For this article, we looked at every domain Perplexity cited across over 3.1 million US queries spanning all topics, then counted how often each domain appeared as a source.

For each website we report:

  • Mention share — a domain’s citations as a percentage of the summed citations of the top 50 most-cited sources. It shows how much of Perplexity’s “source attention” each website captures.
  • vs last month — how the domain’s rank has moved since the previous monthly snapshot (▲ climbed, ▼ fell, or NEW if it wasn’t in last month’s top 50).
  • Pages cited — the number of distinct pages on the domain that Perplexity cited, a measure of how broadly the site is referenced rather than how often.
  • DR (Domain Rating) — Ahrefs’ 0–100 measure of a website’s backlink-profile strength, included for context on each source’s overall authority.

This article is generated and automatically kept up to date every month by Agent A, our AI agent. Each month it pulls the latest Brand Radar data, recalculates mention share and rank movement, and refreshes the chart and table above — so the figures always reflect the most recent snapshot.

Ahrefs’ Brand Radar.

Measure your brand’s visibility in Perplexity, see the specific queries where your brand gets mentioned (and the ones where it doesn’t), the pages that mention your brand, and then compare every metric with your closest competitors:

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