{"id":197973,"date":"2026-06-02T11:25:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T16:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahrefs.com\/blog\/?p=197973"},"modified":"2026-06-02T11:25:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T16:25:18","slug":"what-is-a-good-domain-rating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ahrefs.com\/blog\/what-is-a-good-domain-rating\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is a Good Domain Rating? (With Real Data)"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u201cIs my Domain Rating good?\u201d is one of the most common questions in SEO. The honest answer: it depends entirely on what you compare it to.<\/div>\n

Domain Rating (DR)<\/a> is Ahrefs\u2019 measure of how strong a website\u2019s backlink profile is, on a scale from 0 to 100. It\u2019s relative by design: your score reflects how your backlink profile stacks up against every other website in our index.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why \u201cwhat\u2019s a good DR?\u201d has no single answer. A DR of 60 could be excellent in one industry and middling in another. It could be more than enough to rank for one keyword and nowhere near enough for another.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s one more thing worth knowing before you judge your own score. DR is logarithmic<\/strong>, so websites aren\u2019t spread evenly across the 0\u2013100 scale. The internet is mostly small, new, or abandoned sites, which means the overwhelming majority of domains sit right at the bottom \u2014 DR 0 to 10. Climbing from DR 20 to 30 takes a handful of links. Climbing from 70 to 80 can take thousands. So a \u201chigh\u201d number is rarer than it looks.<\/p>\n

Rather than chase a magic number, judge your DR the three ways that actually matter: against your competitors, against your industry, and against the specific keywords you want to rank for. Here\u2019s how to do each, with real data.<\/p>\n

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