See how strong any website's backlink profile is with Ahrefs Domain Rating. Check one site, or compare yours with up to 9 competitors.
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Domain Rating, 0 to 100
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Sorted from strongest to weakest backlink profile.
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DR goes up when trusted websites link to you. Every plan includes high-quality outreach backlinks placed by hand on real sites, every month.
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DR is logarithmic, so each step up the scale is harder than the last. What matters most is how you compare with the sites ranking for your keywords.
New sites and sites with few quality backlinks.
Typical for local small businesses that have done some link building.
An established site with a solid backlink profile.
Strong brands, big publishers and popular niche sites.
The biggest sites on the web, like Google, Wikipedia and major news.
Leaderboard
The strongest backlink profiles on the web, updated daily from Ahrefs.
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Domain Rating (DR) is an Ahrefs score from 0 to 100 that estimates the strength of a website's backlink profile. It looks at how many unique websites link to a domain and how strong those linking sites are themselves.
A link from a high-DR site that links out to few other sites passes more value than a link from a weak site that links to thousands. Backlinks are the core of off-page SEO.
DR comes from Ahrefs. DA (Domain Authority) comes from Moz. Both are third-party estimates of link strength, and neither is used directly by Google.
Pick one and use it consistently to compare yourself with competitors. The trend over time is more useful than any single number.
There are no shortcuts that last. These four steps are what we use for clients every month.
Compare your DR with the sites ranking above you to set a realistic target.
Outreach to real sites in your industry and region, not link farms.
Guides, data and local resources that people want to reference.
Consistent monthly link building beats one big burst.
FAQ
Domain Rating is an Ahrefs metric that shows the strength of a website's backlink profile compared with every other site in the Ahrefs database. It runs from 0 to 100 on a logarithmic scale, so moving from 70 to 80 is much harder than moving from 10 to 20.
Yes. You can check the DR of any website and compare up to 10 domains at once for free, with no signup.
It depends on your competitors. A local business does not need DR 70 to rank; it needs a DR close to or above the sites it competes with for its keywords. Compare your site with your top competitors to see where you stand.
DR (Domain Rating) is made by Ahrefs and DA (Domain Authority) is made by Moz. Both estimate the strength of a site's backlink profile on a 0 to 100 scale, but they use different link data and formulas, so the numbers do not match.
Google does not use DR. It is a third-party estimate. But DR is based on backlinks, and quality backlinks are one of the signals Google does use, so a higher DR often goes along with better rankings.
Earn links from relevant, trusted websites that already have links of their own. Outreach, digital PR, guest content and genuinely useful resources all help. Every MarketingFlow SEO plan includes high-quality outreach backlinks every month.
Ahrefs recalculates DR continuously as it crawls the web. Results here are cached for up to 12 hours.
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