{"id":197924,"date":"2026-06-01T11:10:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T16:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahrefs.com\/blog\/?p=197924"},"modified":"2026-06-01T11:10:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T16:10:25","slug":"most-cited-domains-perplexity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ahrefs.com\/blog\/most-cited-domains-perplexity\/","title":{"rendered":"The 50 Most-Cited Websites in Perplexity (June 2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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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.<\/div>\n

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<\/a> and tens of millions of active users worldwide. It\u2019s also unusually candid about sourcing, which makes its citation mix especially revealing.<\/p>\n

To map it, we tracked every domain Perplexity cited across a broad set of US queries, then ranked them by mention share<\/strong> \u2014 each domain\u2019s slice of all the citations the top sources collectively earn. The leader is www.youtube.com<\/strong>, capturing 32.4%<\/strong> of citations \u2014 the most concentrated top source of any assistant we looked at.<\/p>\n

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Mention share = a domain\u2019s citations as a percentage of the summed citations of the top sources. Data via Ahrefs Brand Radar \u00b7 United States, all topics \u00b7 June 2026.<\/p><\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n