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Overview

An AI Overview is the AI-written summary Google shows above the organic results for many searches. It answers the question on the results page and links to a handful of pages it drew on. When an overview appears for a keyword you rank for, it takes many of the clicks, so being one of its cited pages matters as much as your position below it. The Google AI Overview page shows, for each tracked keyword, whether Google showed an AI Overview, whether it cited one of your pages, and which domains it cites instead of you. It lives under AI Search → Google AI Overview at app.trysight.ai/visibility/ai-overview.
Included from Pro. The page reads your tracked keywords, so the site needs keywords tracked under Keywords before it has anything to show.

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Where the data comes from

AI Overview data comes from the keyword rank checks you already run. No extra credits are spent. Every time Sight AI checks a tracked keyword’s Google position, it also records:
  • whether an AI Overview was on the results page,
  • whether that overview linked to one of your pages,
  • every page the overview drew on, in the order the overview lists them.
So the page updates whenever rank checks run: on your plan’s keyword tracking schedule (every three days on Pro and Business) and whenever you run a rank check yourself, including Run check on this page. Each keyword is compared with its previous rank check, so a keyword needs at least two checks before it can show a change.

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Running a check

Run check queues a rank check for the site’s tracked keywords. AI Overview results update as keywords are checked. The Checked stamp beside the button shows when the last rank check finished. Because it is the same check as the Keyword positions refresh, it shares that refresh’s cooldown: Pro can run it again 6 hours after the last run, Business after 2 hours, Enterprise after 1 hour. Inside that window the button tells you when the next run can start. Scheduled checks keep running meanwhile.

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What the page shows

The header reads “AI Overview on X of Y checked keywords”.

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Summary tiles

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Keywords table

One row per tracked keyword. The default filter is With AI Overview; switch to All keywords to see every tracked keyword. Filter by status (With AI Overview, Cited, Not cited, Newly cited, Lost citation, No overview, Not checked, All keywords) or search by keyword or source domain. The CSV button downloads every row that matches the current search and filters. A keyword counts as cited when the overview links to one of your pages. The citation position is where your first page sits among the overview’s sources.

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Keyword details

Click a keyword to open it. The panel shows the status, the check date, your organic rank, and:
  • Your pages it cites when you are cited.
  • Sources the overview cites: every page in the overview’s order, with a You badge on your own pages.
  • Write content for this keyword on keywords you are not cited on, which opens the agent, and Open in Keywords to jump to the keyword on the Keywords page.

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Cited instead of you

Lists the domains the overviews cite on the keywords where they do not cite you: how many of those keywords each domain appears on, and the monthly searches behind them. Hover a domain to see how many of its pages are cited.

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Clicks AI Overviews take

The Search Console side of the same story: queries that held their Google position over the last 28 days but lost clicks, which is the signature of an overview answering above the links. The card shows the estimated clicks lost and the five biggest queries, and links to the full Google AI Search report. It needs a connected Google Search Console property and about 14 days of Search Console history. Every keyword is compared with its previous rank check:
  • new: the overview cites you now and did not before.
  • lost: the overview still shows but no longer cites you.
An overview that stopped appearing is not counted as a loss. Overviews come and go between checks, and a keyword without an overview has nothing to cite.

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The “AI Overview citation lost” alert

When a rank check finds that an overview that cited you at the previous check still shows but no longer cites you, Sight AI records an AI Overview citation lost alert (ai_overview_lost). It names the keywords and links back to this page. Like every SEO alert rule, it starts off. Turn it on, and choose email, Slack or a webhook, under Settings → Site → SEO Alerts. SEO alerts are included from Business. See SEO Alerts.
  • Google AI Mode: whether Google AI Mode’s answer cites you for your tracked prompts
  • Google AI Search: the Search Console view of clicks lost to Google’s AI features
  • SEO Alerts: rules and delivery for every alert kind