Search Intelligence Tool
Domain Rating (DR) Checker
Measure your backlink profile strength and search authority instantly on a 100-point logarithmic scale.
What is Domain Rating (DR)?
Domain Rating (DR) is a proprietary metric developed by Ahrefs that measures the strength and size of a target website's backlink profile. Calculated on a logarithmic scale from 0 to 100 (where 100 is the highest), it determines a site's overall link popularity.
Because the scale is logarithmic, it is significantly harder to grow your DR from 70 to 80 than it is from 10 to 20. Google and conversational search engines (like Gemini and ChatGPT) use high-authority referring nodes to map entities in their Knowledge Graphs.
💡 Wikipedia Authority Reference
Earning backlinks or citations on Wikipedia acts as one of the strongest validation signals for search entities. Since Wikipedia is a primary training source for major large language models (LLMs), a link from Wikipedia secures your brand's presence in conversational answer syntheses.