3x Week-Over-Week: What Sustained ChatGPT Citation Growth Looks Like

Entry #3 · Feb 17, 2026

Overview

Key Findings

The Growth Trajectory

| Period | ChatGPT Citations | Change |

|---|---:|---|

| Jan 3 – Feb 2 (30 days) | 42 | Baseline |

| Feb 2–9 (7 days) | 345 | +721% |

| Feb 10–17 (7 days) | 1,077 | +212% |

From 42 to 1,077 in six weeks. That is 25x growth. There was no additional work after the initial mirror site deployment.

Daily Breakdown (Feb 10–17)

| Date | Citations |

|---|---:|

| Feb 10 | 107 |

| Feb 11 | 131 |

| Feb 12 | 109 |

| Feb 13 | 93 |

| Feb 14 | 141 |

| Feb 15 | 252 |

| Feb 16 | 196 |

| Feb 17 | 48* |

*Feb 17 is partial day (data through ~12:30 UTC)

The pattern shows sustained high volume with a spike on Feb 15 (252 citations in one day). That single day exceeded the entire previous week's total from just a month ago.

What's Getting Cited

| Content Type | Citations | Share |

|---|---:|---:|

| Q&A Pages | ~710 | 66% |

| Homepage | ~250 | 23% |

| GEO Pages | ~100 | 9% |

| Other | ~17 | 2% |

The same pattern holds: structured Q&A content with Schema.org QAPage markup gets cited far more than traditional content pages.

Top Questions Users Are Asking

| Topic | Example Q&As Being Cited |

|---|---|

| Pricing | "What pricing plans are available for Genymotion?" |

| Free options | "Does Genymotion offer a free personal account?" |

| System requirements | "What are the system requirements?" |

| macOS compatibility | "Does the emulator work with the latest macOS?" |

| Linux installation | "How can I install Genymotion on Linux?" |

| Play Store | "How can I enable Google Play Store on Genymotion?" |

| Cloud setup | "How do I set up a virtual device in the Genymotion cloud?" |

These are purchase-decision queries. People evaluating Android emulators are asking ChatGPT—and getting answers from the mirror site.

The Full Bot Picture

| Bot | Requests | Purpose |

|---|---:|---|

| ChatGPT-User | 1,077 | Live citations in user conversations |

| CCBot | 710 | Common Crawl (training data) |

| OpenAI GPTBot | 625 | GPT training data |

| Meta AI | 70 | Llama training data |

| OpenAI SearchBot | 67 | Building retrieval indexes |

| PerplexityBot | 33 | Perplexity indexing |

| ByteSpider | 18 | ByteDance/TikTok training |

| ClaudeBot | 6 | Claude training data |

| Total | 2,606 | — |

Notable this week: PerplexityBot activity jumped from 7 to 33 requests. Still small, but a 5x increase suggests Perplexity is starting to index the mirror site more seriously.

Why It Keeps Growing

1) Fresh content every week. Fresh content is added weekly by ROZZ.

2) More content gets indexed over time. GPTBot made 625 requests this week. Every crawl adds content to training data and retrieval indexes.

3) Successful citations reinforce the source. When ChatGPT retrieves content that answers a user's question well, that signals quality to the retrieval system.

4) Q&A pages match query patterns. The Q&A pages on the mirror site are phrased as questions—exactly how users ask ChatGPT. What are Genymotion's pricing options? matches what are genymotion pricing options naturally.

5) Schema.org markup makes extraction trivial. Every Q&A page has QAPage structured data; the question and answer are explicitly marked.

Six Weeks of Data

| Week | ChatGPT Citations | Cumulative |

|---|---:|---:|

| Jan 3 – Feb 2 | 42 | 42 |

| Feb 2–9 | 345 | 387 |

| Feb 10–17 | 1,077 | 1,464 |

1,464 total citation events in six weeks. Real users. Real questions. Real answers sourced from the mirror site. And the trajectory is accelerating, not flattening.

What ROZZ Built

This infrastructure was built once. The citations keep compounding. Genymotion is one client. ROZZ builds this for every domain.

What This Means for GEO

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February 17, 2026 | Data period: Feb 10–17, 2026