GLOSSARY

VDRCA (Five-Dimension Diagnosis)

IN ONE SENTENCE

VDRCA breaks 'why was this recommended' into five separately measurable dimensions: visibility, mention depth, recommendation tendency, competitiveness and citeability.

VDRCA breaks 'why was this recommended' into five separately measurable dimensions: visibility, mention depth, recommendation tendency, competitiveness and citeability.

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In detail

The five dimensions answer different questions: visibility asks whether the brand appears at all, mention depth asks whether it appears substantively, recommendation tendency asks whether the AI is recommending or merely listing, competitiveness asks where it sits against the same set of brands, and citeability asks whether the evidence behind the answer is solid. Mention rate alone shows only the first dimension and cannot tell you which of the other four is missing. ⚠️ Citeability depends on attributing the body text of cited sources; without that data it cannot be computed, and should be marked as not measured rather than filled with an approximation.

Data behind this page

40.1% / 26.3% / 23.5%

English AI answer citation share (Reddit / Wikipedia / YouTube)

SourceSemrush, 150,000+ citations / 5,000 keywords,2025-06

Sources

  1. [1]AI answer citation source distribution (150,000+ citations / 5,000 keywords).Semrush.2025-06

Updated 2026-08-10