Position and sentiment

Where you appear in an answer, and the tone of the sentence around you.

#Position

Position is your rank among all brands an answer names, by where each first appears in the text. Being named first is position 1.

• Every recognized brand takes a place, tracked or not. If two untracked brands appear before you, you're third.
• Average position is the mean of your position over answers that name you. Answers that don't name you aren't included, so read it alongside visibility.
• First place (top1 in the API) counts answers where you were named first.

{ "avg": 2.0, "n": 167, "prev": 1.8, "cur_common": 2.0, "top1": 59 }

prev is the previous period's average and cur_common is this period's average on the same prompts and surfaces, so the two compare like for like. Lower is better.

#Sentiment

Sentiment is the tone of the text around your first mention in each answer: positive, neutral or negative.

It's a keyword check, not a model's opinion. Onym reads a window of text before and after your name. Words like "avoid", "deprecated", "buggy" or "expensive" make it negative; words like "recommend", "best", "reliable" or "go-to" make it positive. Negative wins when both appear. Everything else is neutral.

{ "n": 167, "positive": 93, "neutral": 74, "negative": 0 }