Reference source · tracked monthly

statista.com

Citation profile

Where this domain grounds AI answers in Quick Service Restaurants, how much of each tracked industry it carries, and which brands depend on it.

October 2026 edition

statista.com ranks #2 of 1k cited domains in Quick Service Restaurants, grounding 3.4% of citations in this Copilot cut. Across the index, its strongest measured position is Packaged Foods & Beverages at 3.5%, and it appears in 18 of 31 published industries. Sampled answers that cite it name 50 tracked brands.

Source profile · October 2026 · Goodie AI Visibility Index

Source snapshot

Quick Service Restaurants · Copilot
Citation share
3.4%
— no second month yet
Industry rank
#2
of 1k cited domains
Industries cited in
18/31
18 live · 0 preview
Source type
Reference
Inferred from the domain
Brands named alongside
50
In 30 sampled answers that cite it

Citation footprint by industry

All-model · Italy
Every industry where statista.com is cited, by citation share
Industry Edition Citation share Industry rank Month-over-month Δ
Packaged Foods & Beverages live
3.5%
#7 ▲ 2.1
Quick Service Restaurants Current live
3.4%
#2 —
Pharmaceuticals live
2.9%
#6 —
E-commerce Platforms live
2.7%
#7 ▲ 1.0
Wireless Carriers live
2.3%
#9 —
Consumer Electronics – Wearables live
1.8%
#16 —
Retail Banking live
1.5%
#26 —
Personal Care & Household live
1.4%
#20 —
Hotels & Resorts live
1.0%
#25 —
Delivery & Logistics live
0.9%
#39 —
18 of 31 published industries cite this domain above their display threshold · 10 shown Share and movement are measured independently in each industry

Brands named alongside statista.com

In sampled answers that cite this source · Copilot only
Tracked brands named in sampled answers that cite statista.com, by number of answers
BrandIndustryShared answersVisibility scoreIndustry rank
KFC Quick Service Restaurants 2
72.6
#6
McDonald’s Quick Service Restaurants 2
74.2
#4
Pizza Hut Quick Service Restaurants 2
72.6
#5
Starbucks Quick Service Restaurants 2
75.0
#3
PepsiCo Inc. Packaged Foods & Beverages 4
79.4
#3
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals 3
72.0
#8
Coca-Cola Company Packaged Foods & Beverages 3
77.7
#5
Merck & Co. Pharmaceuticals 3
78.6
#2
Pfizer Pharmaceuticals 3
78.8
#1
Sanofi Pharmaceuticals 3
73.9
#7
50 tracked brands named in 30 sampled answers · top 10 shown Counted from stored answers that name the brand and cite the source
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A citation profile shows how often a domain is cited as a source in sampled AI answers, and which brands those citations support.

statista.com currently grounds 3.4% of cited answers in Quick Service Restaurants.

Monthly. Each edition re-samples the tracked prompt set so month-over-month figures are directly comparable.