वेबसाइट का DR स्कोर कैसे जांचें (और यह संख्या असल में क्या मापती है)

Checking a DR score takes a few seconds. The harder part is knowing which DR you are looking at, because several tools print a 0-100 number labelled "DR" and only one company actually owns the metric.

This guide covers both: the practical ways to check any domain's DR in 2026, and an honest account of what the score measures, what it ignores, and how to read it.

What a DR score actually is

Domain Rating (DR) is Ahrefs' 0-100 score for the strength of a website's backlink profile. Ahrefs describes it as the "current strength of your target's backlink profile compared to the other websites in our database on a 100-point logarithmic scale" (Ahrefs API docs).

Three parts of that sentence matter:

• Ahrefs'. DR is one company's metric, computed over one company's crawl. Moz has Domain Authority, Semrush has Authority Score, Majestic has Trust Flow. They measure overlapping things and disagree with each other regularly.
• Compared to the other websites. DR is relative. If the rest of the web gains links faster than you do, your DR can drop even when you lost nothing.
• Logarithmic. Going from DR 10 to DR 20 is ordinary. Going from DR 70 to DR 80 takes a link profile very few sites have.

Ahrefs publishes the method in plain terms on its Website Authority Checker page: look at how many unique domains link to the target, look at the authority of those linking domains, take into account how many unique domains each of those sites links to, then plot the result on a 100-point scale. The same page states that DR does not account for link spam, traffic or domain age.

Step 1 — Decide which DR you actually need

Before you paste a domain anywhere, decide what you are going to do with the number. That choice decides the tool.

• You need Ahrefs' own figure (to quote in a pitch, match a marketplace filter, or compare against a sponsor's requirement): use an Ahrefs tool. Nothing else returns Ahrefs' DR.
• You need a trend for your own site and you want to show it publicly: an open-data equivalent with an embeddable badge may suit you better.
• You are vetting a link prospect: either works, as long as you compare like with like across every prospect.

The five practical options in 2026:

The Ahrefs options above come from Ahrefs' own free tools page and Ahrefs Free. Ahrefs also offers a free Domain Rating API, covered in the FAQ below.

Step 2 — Check the root domain, not a page

DR is a domain-level metric. Enter example.com, not example.com/blog/some-post. If you want the strength of one specific page, that is a different Ahrefs metric, URL Rating (UR).

Subdomains are worth a second thought. A site hosted on a big platform's subdomain can inherit very different numbers depending on how the tool treats it. When a result looks surprisingly high or low, check whether the tool scored the subdomain or the parent domain.

Step 3 — Read the number against its neighbourhood

A DR score on its own tells you almost nothing. Ahrefs says so directly: it is "not possible to say that a Domain Rating of 30 is good, or 50, or 60, or 70", and the rule of thumb is that your DR is good "if it's higher than or comparable to similar sites" (Ahrefs).

So the useful reading is comparative:

1. List five sites that compete with you for the same readers or the same keywords.
2. Check all five with the same tool on the same day.
3. Note where you sit in that group, not where you sit on the 0-100 scale.

A DR 25 blog in a niche where competitors sit at 15-20 is in a strong position. A DR 45 SaaS site where every rival is at 60+ has a link gap to close, even though 45 sounds respectable.

Step 4 — Cross-check with a second metric

Every authority score is a model built on one crawl. When a decision matters, check a second one:

• Moz Domain Authority — a different crawl and a different model. Our DA checker reads it from Moz's free tier, and the guide on how to check Domain Authority explains how to read it.
• Referring domains — the raw count behind most authority scores. Our backlinks counter shows it.
• Organic traffic — a site with a high DR and no search traffic is a warning sign, not a prize.

If two independent metrics agree, you can trust the general picture. If they disagree sharply, one of the crawls is missing part of the link profile, and the disagreement itself is worth investigating.

Step 5 — Write down the date you checked

DR changes as the crawl changes, both for your site and for everyone else's. A number with no date is hard to use six months later. Keep a simple log of domain, tool, score and date. It turns a one-off lookup into a trend, and a trend is the only part of DR that tells you whether your link building is working.

How FeedPulse's DR checker gets its number

Our free DR checker does not return Ahrefs' DR. It reads the open Open PageRank dataset and rescales its 0-10 score linearly to 0-100, so an Open PageRank 5.2 shows as 52.

Open PageRank publishes its method: it starts from the public Common Crawl web graph (over 118 million registered domains), runs PageRank over the whole graph, adds an authority-weighted count of referring domains, and filters out domains that show link-network patterns. It refreshes roughly monthly, when Common Crawl publishes a new graph.

What that means in practice:

• Same question, different data. Both scores ask how strong a domain's backlink profile is. They are computed over different crawls, so they will not match digit for digit.
• Coverage follows Common Crawl. Sites that block crawlers, or are very new, can read low.
• It updates about monthly. Results are kept for 30 days, and if a fresh reading isn't available the page shows the last known score with its date.

Use our number for trends and badges. When someone specifically asks for "your Ahrefs DR", give them Ahrefs' figure.

A worked example: vetting three link prospects

Here is how the steps fit together, using three made-up guest-post prospects for a small project-management blog.

• Prospect A shows DR 62, but its recent posts cover casinos, crypto and home insurance, and every post carries several outbound links. A high number on a site that links out to everyone is diluted, and Ahrefs' method accounts for exactly that.
• Prospect B shows DR 28. It only covers remote work and team tools, it publishes twice a month, and its articles get comments from real readers.
• Prospect C shows DR 41 in one tool and much lower in another. The disagreement is the finding: check its referring domains before you decide anything.

On DR alone, A wins. On relevance, readership and link quality, B is the better bet for a small blog, and C needs one more check. The score narrowed the list; it did not make the decision.

How to raise a DR score (the honest version)

Ahrefs is direct about this: getting backlinks from more unique websites is the only way to improve DR, and improving DR should not be your main goal (Ahrefs). Earn links from relevant, reputable sites to the pages you want to rank: useful free tools, original data people cite, and genuine guest contributions. DR follows that work. Buying links to push the number up skips the part that actually helps.

What a DR score cannot tell you

• Relevance. A DR 60 directory nobody reads and a DR 60 industry publication print the same number.
• Traffic. DR ignores whether the linking pages, or the site itself, get any visitors.
• Rankings. DR does not tell you whether you rank for a single keyword you care about.
• Spam. Ahrefs states that DR does not account for link spam. A profile built from low-quality links can still show a healthy number.

What is a good DR score?

There is no universal good score, because DR is relative. Ahrefs' own guidance is that a DR is good when it is higher than or comparable to similar sites. Compare yourself against direct competitors checked with the same tool on the same day, and ignore generic thresholds like "DR 50 is good".

How often does DR change?

Ahrefs recalculates as its crawl updates, and because the score is relative, your DR can move even in a month when your own links did not. Open-data equivalents move with their source; Open PageRank refreshes about monthly. Check monthly at most. Weekly checks mostly show noise.

Why did my DR drop when I didn't lose any links?

Because DR compares you with every other site in the index. If other sites gained links faster than you, or if a site that links to you lost authority itself, your score can fall without any change on your side. A drop of a point or two is normal. A sharp drop is worth checking: look for lost referring domains in a backlink tool.

Does Google use Domain Rating?

No. DR is an Ahrefs metric, and Ahrefs itself notes that Google representatives consistently deny using "domain authority" as a ranking factor (Ahrefs). DR is useful because it correlates with how much link strength a site has, not because Google reads it.

Is the FeedPulse DR the same as Ahrefs DR?

No. Our checker reads the open Open PageRank dataset and rescales it to 0-100. Ahrefs' DR is computed over Ahrefs' own crawl. The two ask the same question about backlink strength and usually move in the same direction, but they will not match exactly on any given domain. When you need Ahrefs' figure, use Ahrefs' free checker.

Can I check DR for many domains for free?

Ahrefs offers a free Domain Rating API: requests are free with a free API key, and any display of the data must carry the attribution "Domain Rating by Ahrefs" with a link to ahrefs.com, under its Domain Rating license. Read the license before building on it; it prohibits bulk harvesting and products that substitute for Ahrefs. Our own checker allows two checks per day, because it shares one free upstream quota between all visitors.

Related free tools

• Free DR checker — open-data Domain Rating equivalent with an embeddable badge
• Ahrefs DR checker free: what you get without paying — the full tour of Ahrefs' free options
• Free DA checker — Moz Domain Authority for cross-checking
• Backlinks counter — referring-domain totals