Vantage research · September 2026 · careers

What AI cites for “best way to learn to code”

ChatGPT cited 6 sites, Gemini cited 5 sites, Perplexity cited 10 sites. No site was cited by all three.

Updated monthlyNext edition 1 October 2026

ChatGPTGeminiPerplexity dots beside a site: the other engines that cite it too

ChatGPT

6 sites · opens with a sentence · no table · opening 22 words

  1. scrimba.com
  2. sigmaschool.co
  3. freecodecamp.org
  4. theodinproject.com
  5. cs50.harvard.edu
  6. selfstudy.com

Gemini

5 sites · opens with a sentence · no table · opening 45 words

  1. medium.comcommunity
  2. scotthyoung.com
  3. coursera.org
  4. lifehacker.com
  5. reddit.comcommunity

Perplexity

10 sites · opens with a sentence · no table · opening 46 words

  1. reddit.comcommunity
  2. codecademy.com
  3. coursera.org
  4. springboard.com
  5. coddy.tech
  6. indeed.com
  7. boot.dev
  8. blog.hubspot.com
  9. scotthyoung.com
  10. codementor.io

Cited by more than one engine

  • scotthyoung.com
  • coursera.org
  • reddit.com

Is your site one of them?

Ask your AI agent to run Vantage's check_prompt_coverage for your domain and “best way to learn to code”, on all three engines, and it will tell you whether you are cited, who is instead, and what changed since your last check.

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Each engine was asked once, in English, as from the United States, on 2026-09-23. Answers change from run to run, so read this as a snapshot. Download the data.