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Ahrefs Changelog: Running List of New Features (2024)

Product Marketing at Ahrefs

Updated: January 6, 202512 min read

This is the Ahrefs changelog for 2024, a simple list of all the features we launched for you to browse and try out. Just want the highlights? Head over to our 2024 roundup.

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27 Dec: Rank Tracker’s Competitors Overview has new history charts for: general performance, positions ranking history, and owned SERP features. Do deeper analysis with the tables below.

13 Dec: Use the 12-month search volume growth forecast in Keywords Explorer's Overview and report tables to predict how keywords will trend in the future and zoom in on promising opportunities.

13 Dec: Use these new filters in the Organic keywords and Paid keywords reports to find valuable keywords that bring both organic and paid traffic, or focus on organic-only or paid-only keywords.

12 Dec: Use this date picker in Rank Tracker's GSC reports to see changes across custom ranges.

12 Dec: Meet the new history charts in Rank Tracker’s Competitors Overview for general performance, positions ranking history, and owned SERP features.

12 Dec: Enable the Auto-submit Changes made with patches feature in Site Audit's Crawl settings to auto-submit changes to search engines whenever you patch a page to fix an issue.

7 Dec: We've launched Web Analytics, our simple Google Analytics alternative. It’s privacy-friendly, cookie-free, and lightning-fast, and offers focused insights with a historical performance graph to track top-level metrics, top sources to see where your visitors are coming from and which pages drive the most organic traffic, and top traffic locations and devices to see which devices to optimize for. Learn more →

6 Dec: In Site Explorer, compare a list of targets and see individual metrics with the new “Targets list” overview widget and standalone report.

4 Dec: Use the new no rank filter in Rank Tracker's Overview 2.0 to easily find the keywords that your target isn’t currently ranking for.

4 Dec: The chart version of the “Organic pages by traffic” widget from a few years ago is back in Overview.

4 Dec: In Site Audit, ask AI to generate titles and meta descriptions right in the “Patch it” input box. Draft titles and descriptions with a Pro project boost add-on, and publish patches in full with a Max project boost.

20 Nov: AI Content Helper's Content Score is now multilingual. It supports 173 non-English languages and generates topics in the primary language of the SERP.

12 Nov: Export the custom reports you’ve been building in Reports Builder into PDFs. Share your SEO and marketing insights with your team, manager, and clients – just hit Print to PDF.

8 Nov: In the GSC Overview report, click on “Years” to compare your website’s performance year-on-year in the performance chart.

8 Nov: We’ve added a bunch of highly requested new features in APIv3’s Keywords Explorer Overview endpoint. You can now pull data for: target filter, empty keywords parameter, mobile and desktop distribution, and monthly volumes.

6 Nov: We’ve added a filter for paid positions in the Organic keywords report in top ads, bottom ads, and paid sitelinks.

31 Oct: Before, you had to run an empty search in Keywords Explorer to explore its entire database. Now, just click on this link on the landing page to access this data.

27 Oct: We’ve made it easier to cross-reference what could be affecting your impressions and traffic numbers by adding Google updates, content changes, and an improved x-axis with years to the GSC performance charts on your Dashboard and Rank Tracker.

14 Oct: In both Site Explorer and Keywords Explorer reports, there’s a new Search Intents column that shows you common search intents for keywords like: commercial, transactional, informational, and so on. We also show if keywords are: branded or local.

2 Oct: In the SERP overview in Site Explorer, Competitive Analysis, Keywords Explorer, and Rank Tracker, we now show SERPs with AI Overviews. Just expand it to see all the links and URLs inside.

30 Sept: In Site Explorer’s Overview, you’ll now see your target’s top ads (along with exact ad copy itself and key metrics), top paid keywords, and top paid pages.

20 Sept: We've enabled regex mode in all text filters in Site Explorer. You can now use advanced patterns that previously weren’t available with normal filter operators. Learn more

19 Sept: Before, you could only select from preset time periods in Site Explorer's Overview. Now, just click on “Custom date” to select specific dates and see changes across them.

14 Sept: Ahrefs’ AI Content Helper is now in beta! This tool lets you optimize your content by giving you competitor data to inform your own writing process, instead of focusing on keyword stuffing. Content Helper will:

Use AI to identify the core topics for your target keywords
Score your content and your competitors’ content against those topics as you write
Show basic recommendations and ideas for titles, meta descriptions, and headings

Learn more

13 Sept: You can now apply multiple filters for various use cases in Keywords Explorer in one click.

12 Sept: We’ve added a Global Traffic Potential metric in Keywords Explorer that shows you the total organic traffic that the #1 ranking page gets across all countries. This gives you a better idea of a keyword’s full traffic potential instead of basing it on page traffic from a single country.

09 Sept: Report builder (beta) is now live! It lets you create your own reports using widgets from Site Explorer and Rank Tracker. You can experiment with creating all sorts of reports, from competitor analysis to brand monitoring. Learn more

09 Sept: In Site Explorer's Overview 2.0, there's a new paid search tab where you can see charts for metrics like paid traffic, paid keywords and paid pages, all in one place.

09 Sept: In the Site Structure report in Site Explorer, we now show URL metrics for paths, as well as new icons for paths and webpages to distinguish between them more easily.

22 Aug: We added two new metrics to Batch Analysis v2: The top location that brings the most organic traffic to a target, and the traffic from the top location. Both columns are available in APIv3.

14 Aug: You can now cluster keyword ideas for the Japanese language both by Parent Topic and by terms in Keywords Explorer.

14 Aug: We now support hardware security keys like YubiKey and platform authenticators like Face ID, Touch ID, and Windows Hello. Go to Account Settings > My account to add an authentication method.

12 Aug: When viewing page text changes in Site Audit, you can now see both old and new content side-by-side, along with highlights for removed and added text.

6 Aug: We’ve just released the long-awaited Batch Analysis APIv3 endpoint, which lets you pull metrics for a bunch of URLs and domains in bulk. Read API documentation

29 July: We’ve added an “All in top 100" checkbox in the competitors’ positions filter in Content gap. This lets you create more complex rules like “at least one competitor in top 10 and all in top 100.”

23 July: Turn on this Show domain recurrences toggle to hide link recurrences, also known as link blinks, in your Calendar report. When hidden, only the first appearance of new domains or links is shown. Recurring disappearances are ignored, and considered lost only when the domain or link does not reappear.

19 July: There's a new Growth metric in Keywords Explorer that shows you a keyword’s search volume growth rate over 3, 6, or 12 months – you can select your time period with the switcher at the top.

Plus, filter for keywords that had a specific growth rate over a time period and sort results by growth.

15 July: Now when you select domains in Organic Competitors, you can open them directly in the new Content gap and Link intersect reports.

12 July: In Site Explorer's Top pages report, the new Content changes column tells you drastically content on a page changed over a period of time. Click on the magnifying glass to see actual changes in Page inspect.

07 July: In Site Explorer's Overview 2.0, enable "Content changes" in performance charts to see when content was changed and visualize if significant changes in traffic followed a change in content. The bigger the bubble, the bigger the content change.

01 July: Some Rank Tracker improvements! We’ve added customizable columns for clicks, CPC, CPS, search types & Parent Topic in Overview 2.0, plus a date picker in SERP overview.

28 June: In the revamped Referring IPs report, you can now use “Best links” and other filters, see new and lost IPs for any timeframe, and see nested domains and link tables.

26 June:We've improved Target URL filter in Backlink reports. Before, it only worked on the final destination URL in a redirect chain – but it now works on all the URLs in redirect chains.

21 June: Click on a tag in any Rank Tracker report to open up that tag group in Overview 2.0. This should make it lotsss more convenient to access the keywords related to each tag.

7 June: Find the SERP features history chart in the Overview, Ranking history, and Competitors Overview reports. Hover over the chart to see details and track any Ahrefs and Google updates.

General

Batch Analysis 2.0

Now you can analyze up to one thousand targets at once – Batch Analysis will generate a report with important SEO metrics. Use the country picker at the top to see data for a specific location, or export your data into a CSV file.

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Check out the Ahrefs changelog for more updates – it houses a running list of all our newest features.

30 May: You can now use AI to translate a saved keyword list into various languages and dialects. Just open any saved keyword list and click on the Translate button, select a language and location, and hit translate.

30 May: Find two new charts in Site Explorer's Overview > Competitors mode: Share of Voice, which shows your target’s organic search market share over time as compared to the competitors you’ve specified. Plus Share of Traffic Value, which shows the same but instead of traffic, it focuses on the total paid cost of that traffic.

29 May: Use the IndexNow setting in Site Audit to instantly notify search engines about important content changes on your website. Just go to your Crawl settings and specify your IndexNow API key, then go to Page Explorer and filter for the URLs you want to submit and click the IndexNow button. Learn about IndexNow

28 May: Analyze up to one thousand targets at once with Batch Analysis 2.0. Use the country picker at the top to see data for a specific location, or export your data into a CSV file.

16 May: Find new widgets in your GSC Overview report:

Top keywords
Top keyword changes
Low hanging fruit keywords, which shows you the most popular keywords where your target’s ranking position is between 4 and 15
Potential cannibalization, which shows you keywords with multiple ranking URLs
Top pages
Top page changes

3 May: There's a new Calendar view in Page inspect that shows you the history of page changes over time. The darker the color, the more content changes were made on a page that day.

Also, when comparing SERPs in Site Explorer, Keywords Explorer and Rank Tracker, you can now see the actual text of a featured snippet and compare how it changed over time.

27 April: Just released: our first Rank Tracker APIv3 endpoint for Overview 2.0. As always, you can use the API button in the report itself to create request URLs for filters you’ve applied. Requests to this endpoint are free and do not consume units. Read API documentation

18 April: Local keyword research in Keywords Explorer just got easier. Cluster common keyword ideas by Parent Topic for these locations:

Brunei Darussalam
Hong Kong
Japan
Korea
Taiwan
Trinidad Tobago
Vietnam

We've also added two more use cases in Site Explorer's Opportunities report.

Potential cannibalization helps you spot opportunities to avoid targeting the same keyword with multiple pages
Descriptive anchors helps you replace generic anchor text

And our last update for the day: you can now compare between any Site Audit crawls. Before, you could only compare a crawl with its previous crawl.

17 April: The Lowest DR filter is now also in Site Explorer's Organic keywords report. It makes it easier to spot opportunities where you can rank with a low-DR website by letting you filter through high-difficulty keywords where a "weak" website ranks at the top.

4 April: This one's for all of you who still haven't found what you're looking for~*~ in Rank Tracker's GSC report, at least. Now you can just use this URL filter ;)

3 April: You can now export data directly from all Site Explorer and Keywords Explorer reports to Google Sheets. Just link your Google account and allow permissions.

1 April: Fresh out the oven on Keywords Explorer's Overview: search type distribution! See the percentage of searches for a keyword that go to web, image, video, and news, and optimize content you create for the format that searchers prefer.

24 March: Site Explorer's Calendar report just had its final evolution with the Backlinks tab. Watch it in action: https://twitter.com/ahrefs/status/1775251990765080763?s=20 22 March: We've got two new metrics in Keywords Explorer, and a nifty video to show them off.

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21 March: It's an APIv3 updates kind of day. First, our keywords history endpoint now supports the select query parameter and more ranking groups (top 11-20, 21-50, and 51+.) This finer segmentation lets you do quicker updates for keywords with ranking potential.

Also, you can now fetch outgoing link counts and optimize them at scale with our new Outlinks stats endpoints. This was requested only about a million times ;) Read documentation

20 March: With Rank Tracker's new and ~upgraded~ Tags 2.0 report, you can see historical data, sort by changes, and click on the Keywords column to view them in Overview 2.0.

11 March: We’ve added our first Site Audit APIv3 endpoint for Health Scores! You can now monitor drops and improvements in their Health Scores programmatically. Read API documentation

8 March: Announcing a couple of improvements for Rank Tracker's GSC pages report: you can now filter by page clicks, impressions, CTR, and average position.

6 March: Pages 2.0 in Rank Tracker is live: it shows you all the URLs ranking for your tracked keywords + important metrics for them. New additions include traffic value numbers, SERP titles, historical data, and new filters to zoom in on data. Watch video

4 March: Now when you export a backlinks report in Site Explorer, you’ll see redirect chain URLs in your files.

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