Paste up to 25 domains — one per line, or comma-separated. Schemes, www and paths are stripped automatically.
How to Check Domain Rating
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Paste your domains
Enter one domain per line — or comma-separated — in the input box. You can paste a full URL; the tool strips the scheme, www and path and keeps the bare domain. Up to 25 domains per check. - 2
Run the check
Click Check Domain Rating. Each domain is looked up live and returns a Domain Rating score from 0 to 100. A single domain shows a visual gauge; multiple domains return a sortable table. - 3
Sort and compare
Click the Domain Rating column to rank domains from strongest to weakest, or the Domain column to sort alphabetically. Use this to benchmark competitors or prioritise link prospects. - 4
Export the results
Download the full table as CSV or JSON to drop into a spreadsheet, a report, or your own audit workflow.
When to Use a Domain Rating Checker
Competitor benchmarking
Link prospecting
Buying or vetting a domain
Tracking your own growth
About This Tool
Domain Rating (DR) is a 0–100 score that estimates the strength of a website's backlink profile relative to every other site in a large link index. It was popularised by Ahrefs, and the score in this tool is Domain Rating by Ahrefs. A higher DR means a site has more (and more authoritative) referring domains pointing to it. The scale is logarithmic: the jump from DR 70 to DR 71 represents far more links than the jump from DR 20 to DR 21, which is why new sites can climb quickly at first and then plateau.
This free checker looks up Domain Rating for up to 25 domains at once — useful when you are benchmarking a list of competitors or vetting a batch of link prospects rather than checking a single site. Enter bare domains or full URLs; the tool normalises them, removes duplicates, and returns a sortable, exportable table. A single domain is shown as a visual gauge so you can read the score at a glance.
Domain Rating vs Domain Authority. Domain Rating (Ahrefs) and Domain Authority (Moz) measure the same idea — backlink-based authority on a 0–100 logarithmic scale — but they are computed from different link indexes and different models, so the numbers do not match. A site might be DR 55 and DA 48. Neither is an official Google metric: Google has repeatedly said it does not use a single "domain authority" score as a ranking factor. Treat DR as a third-party estimate of link strength, helpful for relative comparison, not as a guaranteed ranking predictor.
How to actually raise your Domain Rating. DR moves when authoritative, relevant sites link to you. The durable way to earn those links is to publish genuinely linkable assets — original research, data, free tools, definitive guides — and to do real outreach and digital PR, not to chase low-quality directory or comment links that can drag a profile down. On-page SEO and a clean, crawlable site help search engines find and trust your content, but they do not move DR by themselves. Use our XML Sitemap Generator, Meta Tag Generator, and SERP Preview to get the on-page foundations right, and the Keyword Density Checker to keep content focused, while you build authority off-page.
Reading the score. As a rough guide: DR 0–20 is a new or low-authority site, 21–40 is an established small site, 41–60 is a solid mid-size site, 61–80 is a strong brand in its niche, and 81–100 is reserved for the largest, most-linked sites on the web. Always sanity-check a surprising score against the site's actual referring domains — a thin site with an inflated DR is often the result of a small number of spammy or expired-domain links.