A t0 baseline is the starting measurement, sealed before any change is made, and it is the reference every later comparison is judged against.
This is the sense CiteAngle uses when it measures. The word travels with other meanings in this market, so we pin ours before it turns up in a report.
Where this lands in the measurement
Once you have touched the site, the 'before' state cannot be rebuilt. An unsealed baseline is not recoverable after the fact.
So execution programs seal the baseline in month one before anything moves.
What it costs to leave this loose
Touch the site first and the before state cannot be rebuilt. Every later comparison loses the thing it was going to be measured against.
Execution programs seal the baseline in month one, before anything moves.
Who you want measuring this
One reading does not settle a term like this. The answer an assistant writes today can name different companies tomorrow, so a Panorama round puts 50 buyer questions to every place on our US list, 7 separate times each, and reads all 17 of them — ChatGPT · Perplexity · Claude · Gemini · Grok · Google AI Overviews · Google AI Mode · Bing Copilot · DuckDuckGo AI Assist · Google Search · Bing Search · Yahoo Search · DuckDuckGo Search · Google News · Bing News · YouTube · Google Short Videos. Radar starts at 5 questions and covers the same list under the same rule.
We put the same questions to the competitors you name inside the same runs, so you see both in one table. The conditions are sealed, so you can reproduce the round and check it, and every planned observation is published with its state, failures included. When you choose who measures this, check that all three are in place.
That describes how the measuring is done. It is not a promise about where your numbers land.
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