Citation Rate
The proportion of a fixed set of test prompts for which the generated answer includes your URL as a source.
Analogy Mental model
Out of a hundred lectures in the introductory course, thirty-five list your book as further reading. Your citation rate is thirty-five percent.
In practice What you actually do
Maintain a library of fifty to a hundred real customer questions, run it on a schedule, and compute the rate per engine. Watch the trend rather than any single run, because the same question asked three times can return different sources.
Where people get burned Pitfalls
Sampling is random by design, so a single reading carries meaningful noise. Averaging several runs per prompt is what makes the number stable enough to report or act on.
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