Query Coverage

Query coverage is the size and scope, topical and geographic, of the query set used to measure any AI-visibility metric, and it directly determines how representative that measurement actually is.

Why it matters

A citation rate measured against twenty queries and one measured against two thousand queries covering multiple regions are not comparable numbers, even if they happen to produce the same percentage. Query coverage is the methodology detail that makes a metric trustworthy or not.

Related terms

• Citation Share

  Citation share is a brand's percentage of citations within an AI answer, normalized against the total number of citation slots that answer actually contains, rather than simply counting whether a citation happened at all.

• Prompt Monitoring

  Prompt monitoring is the practice of tracking how AI systems respond to a defined, recurring set of prompts over time, running the same questions on a schedule to see how mentions, citations, and sentiment shift.