Copilot citations from Bing beside your AI check

What it shows

Bing Webmaster Tools has a report called AI Performance: Microsoft's own count of how often your pages were cited in Microsoft Copilot, in Bing's AI summaries and in some partner AI services, and the short phrases the AI looked up when it cited you (Bing calls them grounding queries). Under What reached your website on a check, Copilot citations from Bing sets that beside the check:

• What Copilot did in this check: how many of its answers named you, make you prominent and cited your website.
• What Copilot looked up when it cited you: Bing's grounding queries with their citations, your share of all citations for each phrase when the export has it, and the question of your check each phrase is close to.
• Your pages Copilot cites most: each page with its citations, and whether the assistants read it in this check.
• The assistants read it, Bing's AI answers never cite it: your pages the assistants read in this check that are not in your Bing export.
• Citations a day: the first week of your export against the last, when you add the timeline.

Export it from Bing Webmaster Tools

Your site needs to be added and verified in Bing Webmaster Tools first.

1. 1Open AI Performance for your site.
2. 2Choose the dates. Three months is a good start.
3. 3Export the grounding queries as CSV, then the pages. The timeline export works too.
4. 4On your check, under What reached your website, choose Add a Bing AI Performance CSV and pick each file.

You do not connect your Microsoft account: PollyX only reads the files you choose. Bing also offers Excel files; add the CSV instead. A view you filtered in Bing (one phrase or one page) exports only what it shows, and PollyX reads it as it is.

What is kept

Each file is read once and not stored. PollyX keeps the phrases or pages with their citation counts (and Bing's share, intent and topic when the file has them), up to the 1,000 with the most citations, the days of the timeline and the file name. These are counts about your own site and say nothing about any visitor. They are saved with your account under the brand, so every check on that brand shows them, and Remove deletes one for good.

Reading it

Bing's numbers are a sample, and Bing says its totals can differ between its views, so read them as a trend rather than an exact count. A citation is not a click: it means your page was shown as a source. Copilot in your check and Copilot in Bing's report are the same assistant seen two ways: the check shows what it says about you when asked your questions, and Bing shows how often it uses your pages across everything people ask it. A page the assistants read in your check that Bing never counts as cited is one the AI already finds: make sure it answers the question plainly in its text, and that Bing has indexed it.