Free Domain Rating (DR) Checker
Look up the Ahrefs Domain Rating for any website and see how its backlink authority stacks up, without creating an account.
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Things worth knowing about DR
Compare within your niche, not against giants
A DR of 30 can lead a local-services market while barely registering in SaaS or finance. Look at the handful of sites actually ranking for your target keywords — that's the benchmark that matters, not an unrelated household name.
Growth slows down as the number climbs
Ahrefs scores DR on a curve, so going from 10 to 20 takes far less link-building work than going from 60 to 70. If progress feels slow near the top, that's expected — not a sign your outreach isn't working.
A high score doesn't guarantee rankings
DR describes backlink strength, not content quality. Pages with a modest DR regularly outrank higher-DR competitors because they answer the query better. Use DR to size up link-building headroom, not as a ranking prediction.
Handy for sizing up outreach targets
Before pitching a guest post or partnership, run DR on both sites. A wide gap means a link is valuable but harder to land; a close score usually means a pitch has decent odds.
Scored per root domain, not per page
A subdomain like blog.example.com carries the same DR as example.com — Ahrefs rolls the score up to the root domain. Paste in any page URL on a site and you'll get that domain's score back.
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