Check any domain’s Ahrefs Domain Rating (DR), a 0-100 backlink authority score. Free, and it works with just a domain.
Domain Rating (DR) is Ahrefs’ measure of how strong a website’s backlink profile is, on a 0 to 100 logarithmic scale. A higher DR means more, and more authoritative, sites link to it. It is one of the most widely cited authority metrics in SEO.
Because the scale is logarithmic, moving from DR 20 to 30 is far easier than moving from 70 to 80. Treat it as a rough band (Low, Developing, Established, Strong, Authoritative) rather than an exact number.
Check your own domain to see where you stand, then check competitors to gauge how hard a niche is to rank in. A big DR gap usually means you need more links, better content, or both before you compete on the same terms.
DR reflects links, not on-page quality. A site can have high DR and still have technical SEO and AI-readiness problems, which is exactly what a full audit surfaces.
Domain Rating is informational. It does not affect your SEO Pine audit score, so a newer site is never penalised for having fewer backlinks yet. We show DR as supplemental context alongside the technical and AI-readiness checks you can actually fix.
Use the free audit to turn that context into a prioritized action plan.