Free Domain Rating Checker for Any Website
Check the Ahrefs Domain Rating of up to 20 websites at once.
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What Is Domain Rating?
Domain Rating (DR) is Ahrefs' score for the strength of a website's backlink profile, on a scale from 0 to 100.
It weighs how many websites link to a domain and how strong those websites are. A higher DR means a stronger link profile.
The scale is logarithmic, so moving from DR 70 to 80 is much harder than from 20 to 30.
Ahrefs DR, checked with this tool in September 2026.
How to Check Domain Rating for Free
To check domain rating for free, paste up to 20 domains into the checker above. You'll see each website's Ahrefs DR in seconds, with no signup.
Paste your domains
Enter up to 20 websites, one per line or separated by commas. Full URLs are trimmed to the domain.
Compare DR side by side
Each website shows its Ahrefs DR, DR band, Open PageRank score, referring domains and global rank.
Open a row for history
Click any domain to see how its Open PageRank score changed month by month since 2018.
How Is Domain Rating Calculated?
According to Ahrefs, Domain Rating is calculated from the websites that link to you with at least one dofollow link. Three things matter.
Unique linking websites
How many different websites link to you with at least one dofollow link.
Their strength
Links from high-DR websites add more than links from low-DR ones.
How many sites they link to
A website that links out to thousands of others passes less to each one.
What Is a Good Domain Rating?
A good Domain Rating is one that's higher than or close to the websites you compete with. Ahrefs calls DR a relative metric, so there's no universal good score.
These five bands give you a quick way to read any score.
New or small websites with few links.
Growing websites with a small link profile.
Solid niche websites and known brands.
Leading brands and niche publishers.
The biggest websites on the web.
How to Use Domain Rating
Use Domain Rating to compare websites, not to judge one in isolation. These are the three most common uses.
Benchmark against competitors
Compare your DR with websites that rank above you. A big gap suggests links are part of why they rank higher.
Vet link prospects
Higher-DR websites tend to pass more link value. Also check relevance, traffic and how many sites they link out to.
Track your progress
Check your DR every few months. A rising DR means your link building is working.
Domain Rating vs Domain Authority vs Authority Score
Domain Rating, Domain Authority and Authority Score all estimate website strength, but different companies make them. None of them is a Google metric.
This checker shows Ahrefs DR next to the Open PageRank score, so you get two independent opinions.
Why Did My Domain Rating Drop?
Your Domain Rating can drop even if you did nothing wrong. DR is relative, so it moves when other websites gain or lose links.
Ahrefs keeps DR history behind a paid plan. Open any row in the checker to see its Open PageRank score month by month since 2018, for free.
How to Increase Domain Rating
To increase your Domain Rating, earn links from more unique websites. Ahrefs says that's the only way DR goes up.
Earn links from new websites
Ten links from ten websites raise DR more than ten links from one website.
Aim for strong, relevant websites
Links from well-known websites in your industry carry the most weight.
Create link-worthy assets
Original data, free tools and in-depth guides give other websites a reason to cite you.
Try digital PR
Pitch stories and expert quotes to journalists and bloggers who cover your topic.
Brand Mentions from Websites in the Top 10% of the Web
Most websites we publish brand mentions on rank in the top 10% of the web by harmonic centrality, a measure of how well connected a website is.
They don't need a high DR to reach AI answers. In our study of 865 ChatGPT citations for buying questions, almost half went to websites with DR under 20.
Rankavi publishes your listicle, review or comparison on an indexed website in your niche.
Domain Rating Checker: Frequently Asked Questions
Answers to common questions about the free domain rating checker.
Yes, with no signup and no email. You can check up to 20 domains per search.
The DR number comes from Ahrefs, so it matches their free checker. This tool also checks 20 domains at once and adds a DR band, the Open PageRank score and its history.
Yes. Paste up to 20 domains, one per line or separated by commas. Results come back in one table you can copy as CSV.
Ahrefs DR history needs a paid Ahrefs plan. This tool shows the Open PageRank score month by month since 2018 as a free way to see how a website's link strength changed.
Domain Rating comes from Ahrefs' free DR data. The Open PageRank score comes from OpenPageRank, which builds it from Common Crawl's public web graph.
Website authority is a general SEO idea for how strong a domain is. It's not the same as Moz's Domain Authority metric. Ahrefs measures it with Domain Rating.
According to Ahrefs, DR counts the unique domains linking to a site and how strong they are. It also weighs how many sites each of them links to. Traffic, domain age and link spam aren't part of it.
There's no fixed good score. Ahrefs calls DR a relative metric: yours is good if it's higher than or close to similar websites in your niche.
Ahrefs hasn't found dofollow links to your website from other domains yet, or the website is very new. Your DR rises once other websites link to you.
Usually because you lost links, the websites linking to you got weaker, or other websites grew faster. DR is relative, so small drops are normal.
Domain Rating measures a whole website's backlink profile. URL Rating measures the backlinks to a single page. Both are Ahrefs metrics on a 0 to 100 scale.
They use different crawls and formulas. Ahrefs crawls the web itself, while OpenPageRank uses Common Crawl. Each can see links the other misses.
Ahrefs updates DR continuously. The Open PageRank score updates monthly, and the results show the date of the latest data.
No. The Open PageRank score is OpenPageRank's own 0 to 10 score. Moz Domain Authority, Semrush Authority Score and Ahrefs DR are separate metrics.
No. Google says it doesn't use domain authority scores. Still, an Ahrefs study of 218,713 domains found that DR correlates with keyword rankings. It's a correlation, not proof of cause.
Use it to compare your site with competitors and to vet link prospects. Also check each prospect's traffic, relevance, content quality and how many sites it links out to.
Earn links from more unique websites, since Ahrefs says that's the only way DR goes up. Focus on strong, relevant pages in your industry. Brand mentions without links don't change DR, but they do help AI visibility.
Less than you might think. In our study, 48% of ChatGPT's citations for buying questions went to websites with DR under 20.