Domain Rating checker: the DR of any website.
Enter one or more domains to see their Ahrefs Domain Rating, the 0–100 score of how strong a site’s backlink profile is. The list comes back sorted from strongest to weakest.
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- 3 domains at a time · 10 with a free account
What the DR checker shows
The DR checker returns the Domain Rating of each domain as calculated by Ahrefs. Domain Rating is a score from 0 to 100 that measures the relative strength of a website’s backlink profile, based on the referring domains that link to it. The scale is logarithmic: moving from 60 to 70 takes far more links than moving from 10 to 20.
DR is useful for comparing: your site against a competitor, or a shortlist of expired domains against each other. It is a third-party estimate and not a Google metric, and it deliberately ignores topic, traffic and spam.
How to read the result
- Compare, do not chase. DR is relative. It matters whether a domain is stronger than the alternatives you are weighing, not whether it passes a round number.
- Look at referring domains too. A high DR built on a handful of links is fragile. Hundreds of referring domains behind the same DR is a different profile.
- Root domain only. The value is for the whole domain, not for a single page.
Rough reading of a DR value
| DR | What it usually means |
|---|---|
| 0–10 | Few or no referring domains. New sites and most parked domains. |
| 10–30 | A small but real link profile. Typical for local businesses and young niche sites. |
| 30–50 | An established site with links from a range of other sites. |
| 50–70 | A strong profile. Well-known brands, long-running publications. |
| 70+ | The largest sites on the web. |
What DR does not tell you
- Whether the links are relevant. DR counts link strength and ignores topic. Fifty links from casino sites raise DR as well as fifty from newspapers.
- Whether the DR is inflated. A few site-wide links from one strong site, or a link network, can push DR far above what the domain deserves. On expired domains this is common.
- Whether the domain is clean. A domain can keep a DR of 50 through two years as a spam site. History is a separate check.
More lookups for the same domain
Related guides: What Is a Good Domain Rating? DR Explained for Buyers, Domain Rating vs Domain Authority: Which One to Trust, Inflated Domain Rating: How to Spot Fake Authority
Domain Rating (DR) Checker: frequently asked questions
What is a good Domain Rating?
There is no universal threshold. A DR of 30 is strong for a local service site and weak for a national news site. Compare against the sites that rank for the keywords you care about.
Is DR a Google ranking factor?
No. Domain Rating is an Ahrefs metric and Google does not use it. It correlates with rankings because both respond to the same thing, links from other sites.
What is the difference between DR and DA?
DR is from Ahrefs and measures backlink profile strength. DA (Domain Authority) is from Moz and is a predicted-ranking score from 1 to 100. They use different link indexes and formulas, so the two numbers for the same site rarely match.
Why does an expired domain have a high DR?
Because the links earned while the site was live are still there. That is the reason expired domains are bought. It is also why you should check whether the DR comes from many real sites or from a few links that inflate it.
Where does the data come from?
From Ahrefs. The value shown is Domain Rating by Ahrefs, unchanged. Values are cached for up to a week, so a very recent change may not show yet.
A high DR is where the questions start.
The full report shows who the links come from, the anchor texts, Trust Flow and the domain’s history, and tells you whether the DR is inflated.
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