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Loc.gov

Recommended by ChatGPT across 284 prompt topics people ask about
13K
ESTIMATED
ChatGPT referrals / mo
Prompt topics
284
Monthly ChatGPT prompts
890K
Est. value / mo
$2.8K
Avg rank
10.82
These aren't logged prompts (ChatGPT doesn't share those). They're the commercial topics people ask ChatGPT to recommend products for, sized from real search demand and verified by running each one through ChatGPT. How we estimate this.

Prompts where ChatGPT recommends Loc.gov

Each topic written the way a person would ask it. Estimated visits = this site's share of that prompt's demand.

What are the best digital libraries? rank 3 41 /mo What's the best online library card? rank 1 20 /mo What's the best archival paper? rank 1 14 /mo What are the best online libraries? rank 7 7 /mo What are the best U.S. history textbooks? rank 3 7 /mo What's the best public domain songs? rank 6 6 /mo What's the best archival storage? rank 1 5 /mo What is the best iron steam? rank 4 5 /mo What's the best archival tape? rank 1 4 /mo

Different ways people phrase this prompt. We merge them into one category, and the full ranking covers them all.

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    Proof: a real ChatGPT answer

    One of the 5 runs for What are the best libraries?, verbatim.

    ChatGPT:
    1. loc.gov ← this site
    2. worldcat.org
    3. librarything.com
    4. openlibrary.org
    5. nypl.org
    6. britishlibrary.org
    7. chicagopubliclibrary.org
    8. sfpl.org

    Where Loc.gov ranks

    How often ChatGPT places this site at each position across its prompt topics.

    #18
    most common spot
    14%
    of the time in the top 3
    #1
    11
    #2
    11
    #3
    17
    #4
    10
    #5
    12
    #6
    16
    #7
    13
    #8
    14
    #9
    15
    #10
    17
    #11
    15
    #12
    13
    #13
    15
    #14
    12
    #15
    17
    #16
    19
    #17
    15
    #18
    21
    #19
    12
    #20
    9

    Who else ChatGPT recommends

    Sites that come up for the same prompts as Loc.gov, ranked by how many topics they share.

    archive.org
    151 shared
    amazon.com
    131 shared
    worldcat.org
    123 shared
    google.com
    121 shared
    goodreads.com
    107 shared
    barnesandnoble.com
    93 shared
    smithsonianmag.com
    89 shared
    penguinrandomhouse.com
    88 shared
    bookshop.org
    78 shared
    cambridge.org
    78 shared
    history.com
    78 shared
    encyclopedia.com
    77 shared
    harpercollins.com
    77 shared
    archives.gov
    72 shared
    books.google.com
    70 shared
    jstor.org
    60 shared
    macmillan.com
    59 shared
    pbs.org
    58 shared
    nationalgeographic.com
    44 shared
    abebooks.com
    43 shared
    How is this estimated?

    ChatGPT doesn't publish prompt data. We measure real demand for each commercial topic from Google search volume, scale it to ChatGPT's user base (about 1 ChatGPT user for every 8 Google searchers), and run each topic through ChatGPT 5 times to record which sites it recommends and in what order. A click-through-by-rank curve splits each topic's demand across the recommended sites. Every figure is a modeled estimate, not measured analytics. Full methodology →