Bing AI Performance Report: The Free Tab That Logs Every Time an AI Cited Your Website

How Do You Open the AI Performance Report?

1. Go to bing.com/webmasters and sign in. A Google account works.
2. Click Import and pick your site from Google Search Console. Bing copies the verification, so there is no meta tag or DNS record to add.
3. Left menu, AI Performance. It sits under Search Performance with a BETA label.
4. Change the date range from 30 D to 3 M. Citations are lumpy day to day; three months shows the pattern.

The top of the report has two numbers. Total Citations is how many times an AI answer linked to your site. Avg. Cited Pages is how many of your pages get cited on an average day. The header line says where the data comes from: Microsoft Copilots and Partners.

Which Pages Does Copilot Cite?

Scroll down to List By and click Pages. Every URL that got cited, with its citation count.

On mavek.ai one post, the ROAS optimization guide, took 199 citations, and the top three posts took 91% of the total. Search Influence saw the same shape on their own site in February 2026: one page took 69% of 19,717 Copilot citations across 86 cited pages (Search Influence). AI citations concentrate. Find your two or three pages and protect them first.

What Are Grounding Queries?

Grounding queries are the searches the AI ran on Bing to find sources right before it cited you. They are not your keywords and not what the person typed into Copilot. Click Grounding Queries next to Pages.

mavek.ai's top grounding queries are about ROAS and scaling an agency without hiring: "ROAS optimization strategies cross-channel ROI campaigns" with 87 citations and "optimize ad campaigns for better ROAS" with 84. Mavek never targeted either as a keyword. That is the point of the tab: it shows the questions an AI already uses your site to answer, which are often not the ones you wrote for.

Citation Share is your share of all citations Bing gave for that query. 30.42% on the first row means mavek.ai was one of the main sources every time Copilot searched it.

How Do You Turn the Export Into a Fix List?

1. Click Download all on the Grounding Queries tab, then on the Pages tab. Two CSV files.
2. Paste both into Claude with the prompt below. It matches each query to a page and gives each one an action.
3. Start with the top 20 rows. These are questions you are already the answer to. Refresh those pages first: current numbers, a current date, and a first paragraph that answers the query in one sentence.

These are two CSV exports from Bing Webmaster Tools, AI Performance: Grounding Queries and Pages. My site is [domain]. My business is [what you sell, for whom].

1. Match each grounding query to the page it most likely got cited for, using the Pages export. If you cannot tell, say so.
2. For each query give one action:
   - REFRESH: the page answers it, update the facts, date and first paragraph so it keeps getting cited.
   - EXPAND: the page touches it, add an H2 section that answers the query directly.
   - NEW PAGE: no page really answers it, and it fits my business.
   - IGNORE: it does not fit my business.
3. Sort by citations, highest first.

Output a table: grounding query, citations, page, action, one line on what to change. Then list the 5 changes to make this week.

If you would rather keep it in a sheet, use these five columns. One row per grounding query.

Why refresh first: Search Influence's citations fell 97% from a December average of 1,520 a day to 34 a day in February, and they read it as a freshness effect. One site, one quarter, so treat it as a warning, not a rule. Pages that already get cited are the cheapest to keep cited.

What Does the Report Not Cover?

It covers Microsoft Copilot, Bing's AI summaries and select partner integrations. It does not cover ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude or Google AI Overviews, and there is no API yet; the data leaves as CSV. For the other engines, run the manual AI visibility check: your buyer's questions, five runs each, the cited pages in a sheet. And if an AI engine cannot read your site at all, check whether Cloudflare is blocking AI bots before anything else.

Key Takeaways

• Bing Webmaster Tools, AI Performance, is free and shows total AI citations, cited pages and grounding queries.
• Import your site from Google Search Console in one click; no new verification needed.
• Grounding queries are the AI's own searches before it cited you. They often differ from the keywords you targeted.
• Citations concentrate: on mavek.ai three posts took 91%. Refresh the cited pages first.
• It covers Copilot and Microsoft partners only. Google Search Console has no AI citation report.

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