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title: "Domain Rating checker | SEO Skill"
description: "Check the Domain Rating for any website."
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# Domain Rating checker

Get the Domain Rating for your website, a client site, or a competitor.

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### Compare the sites you actually compete with

One Domain Rating has little context on its own. The competitive opportunities report combines current search results, keyword demand, Domain Rating, and optional referring-domain counts to find the competitors and topics worth inspecting.

[Open the competitor research report](https://seoskill.dev/docs/reports/competitive-opportunities)

## Domain Rating is not Domain Authority

Domain Rating, or DR, is Ahrefs' estimate of a website's backlink profile strength on a logarithmic 0 to 100 scale. Domain Authority, or DA, is a separate Moz metric. The names sound similar, but their indexes and calculations are not interchangeable.

## Compare websites in the same market

There is no universal good Domain Rating. A DR of 30 can be strong in one narrow market and weak in another. Compare sites that compete for similar topics, audiences, and links, then inspect the referring domains behind the score.

## Domain Rating does not predict one page's rank

DR describes a domain-level backlink profile. It does not measure page relevance, content quality, technical accessibility, search intent, or the links pointing to one specific URL. A lower-DR site can outrank a higher-DR site for an individual query.

## Find backlink opportunities

Check competitors, publications, directories, and potential partners. Comparing their Domain Ratings can help you decide which backlink opportunities deserve a closer look first. The [link evidence report](https://seoskill.dev/docs/reports/link-evidence) adds representative backlinks and referring-domain totals when a score deserves closer inspection.