How authoritative is a domain — and how do you stack up against competitors? A 0–100 domain-rank score from live backlink data (Ahrefs-DR-style) for up to 10 domains at once, sorted strongest-first.
Every “authority” metric — DA, DR, Authority Score — is a vendor's model of how strong a backlink profile looks, on a 0–100 logarithmic scale. Google has stated repeatedly that it uses no such site-wide score.
That does not make it useless. It makes it a comparison tool: useful for ranking prospects against each other, worthless as a target to optimise.
Moving 20 → 30 is ordinary work. Moving 70 → 80 takes a different order of magnitude of links, because the scale compresses at the top.
Practical consequence: compare yourself to the sites currently ranking for your keywords, not to the leader of your industry. If the top-10 sits at 35 and you are at 30, the keyword is reachable. If it sits at 80, no amount of content alone will do it.
Only relative to your competition. If the pages ranking for your keywords sit at 30, then 35 is strong; if they sit at 75, then 60 is weak. There is no universal good number.
No. DA and DR are third-party models built by SEO vendors from backlink data. Google has said it has no equivalent site-wide authority score.
Earn links from sites that are themselves linked to — one relevant donor with real traffic moves the number more than dozens of directories. The score follows the link profile; it cannot be optimised directly.
Domain authority is a 0-100 score that estimates how strong a website's backlink profile is relative to the rest of the web — the higher the number, the more, and more trusted, sites link to it. It's a third-party proxy (not a Google ranking factor), but the same well-linked, authoritative sites that rank in search are also the ones AI engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity tend to cite, so a stronger profile tends to help on both fronts. Checking yours side by side with your rivals shows at a glance whether you're playing in the same league for the queries you want to win.
No. Domain authority is a third-party metric — Google has repeatedly said it uses no single 'domain authority' score. It's still a useful proxy for competitive backlink strength, which correlates with the ability to rank and be cited.
It's relative, not absolute — a good score is one at or above the sites you compete with for your target queries. A local rival might sit at 20-30 while a national publisher clears 80, so always judge yours against the specific domains in your niche.
Earn links from more unique, high-authority domains — a handful of quality editorial or digital-PR links moves the score far more than many low-value ones. Because the scale is logarithmic, gains get progressively harder as you climb.
Each tool computes authority from its own backlink index and formula, so Ahrefs' DR, Moz's DA, and this checker won't match exactly. Use one tool consistently and watch the trend rather than comparing absolute numbers across tools.
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