Free Domain Rating Checker
Enter a domain to see its Domain Rating, Ahrefs’ 0 to 100 score of how strong its backlinks are. Add up to two competitors to see where you stand.
Three quick steps. Free, no sign-up. Up to 30 checks a day.
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Enter your domain. Just the domain, like example.com. Any page address works too.
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Add competitors. Optional. Add up to two sites you compete with in Google.
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Compare. See each domain’s Domain Rating side by side, and how many points separate you.
Everything in the Domain Rating Checker. Your link authority next to your competitors’, in one view.
Ahrefs’ Domain Rating. The same 0 to 100 DR score Ahrefs shows, straight from its free Domain Rating API.
What the score means. Each result says whether the site’s links are new, growing, medium, strong or very strong.
Side by side. Check your domain and two competitors at once, and see how many points you lead or trail by.
Any domain. Check any public site, yours or anyone else’s. A page address works too.
One click. No account and no extension. Type a domain and see its score in seconds.
What to do next. The guide below explains what moves the score, and what matters more than it.
What Domain Rating means, and how to raise it. A domain rating sums up how strong a site’s links are. Here’s how to read it, and what moves it.
What the score measures
A domain rating scores the strength of the links pointing to a whole site, from 0 to 100. It counts how many sites link to you and how strong those sites are themselves. A link from a strong site counts for more than many links from weak ones.
Google doesn’t use any of these scores. They’re a quick way to compare sites, because links are still one of the things Google weighs.
DR and other scores
This tool shows Ahrefs’ Domain Rating. Moz’s Domain Authority and Semrush’s Authority Score work on the same idea, each from its own index of links, so the numbers differ between tools. Compare domains within one tool, not a score from one with a score from another.
Read it as a comparison
A rating means most next to the sites you compete with for the same searches. If the pages ranking for your keywords are on sites rated 70 and yours is 15, aim for searches where the top results come from smaller sites.
The scale is logarithmic: going from 20 to 30 is far easier than going from 70 to 80.
How to raise it
Earn links from more sites that are strong in your field. Pages people want to cite, like original data, useful guides and free tools, earn links on their own. Guest posts on relevant sites, partner and supplier pages, and digital PR help too.
More referring domains move the score more than more links from the same site. Links bought in bulk or from link farms rarely help, and can hurt.
Don’t chase the number alone
A site with a modest rating can rank well for searches where it answers best. Publishing helpful posts on the topics you know, and linking them together, wins traffic while your links grow.
It depends on who you compete with. A new site usually starts near 0, many small business sites sit between 10 and 40, and big brands are 70 and up. What matters is how you compare with the sites ranking for your searches.
Yes. The score comes from Ahrefs’ free Domain Rating API, so it matches the DR you see in Ahrefs. It differs from Moz’s DA or Semrush’s Authority Score, which use their own link data.
No. Google uses its own signals, not any tool’s score. Domain rating is a useful estimate of link strength, which Google does weigh.
Earn links from more sites that are strong and relevant to yours. Content people want to cite, partner pages and digital PR help most; bought links rarely do.
Sites that link to you may have lost links themselves, links may have been removed, or other sites grew faster. Because the scale is relative, scores move even when your links don’t.
Yes. There’s no sign-up, and you can run up to 30 checks a day.
Yes. Writing Studio finds searches your site can win, then writes and publishes researched posts for them every week, linked to your other pages.
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