It’s a fair question and one we can’t answer entirely without bias. So rather than creating another tedious side-by-side comparison of features, we’d share some <span>valuable features that you’ll only find in Ahrefs.</span>
Spoiler alert. Ahrefs wins in nearly every major SEO industry poll.
AhrefsBot is the most active web crawler in the “Search Engine Optimization” category on <a>Cloudflare Radar</a>. It’s also the 3rd most active web crawler in the world.
Rank | Bot | Owner | Category |
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1 | GoogleBot | Search Engine Crawler | |
2 | BingBot | Microsoft | Search Engine Crawler |
3 | DataDog Synthetic Bot | DataDog | Monitoring & Analytics |
4 | AhrefsBot | Ahrefs | Search Engine Optimization |
5 | Qualys | Qualys | Search Engine Crawler |
6 | YandexBot | Yandex | Search Engine Crawler |
7 | PetalBot | Huawei | Search Engine Crawler |
8 | Google AdsBot | SAdvertising & Marketing | |
9 | Google Image Proxy | Page Preview | |
10 | Google Images | Search Engine Crawler |
Bots ranked by number of requests. Data supplied as of April, 2023
Ahrefs provides data you can trust. Data many steps ahead of the competition, according to third-party studies and our own research.
Ahrefs’ traffic estimations better correlate with Google Search Console (GSC) data.
Source: AuthorityHacker
There’s a lot of overlapping functionality between Ahrefs, SEMrush, and Moz, but Ahrefs has plenty of unique features too.
Check traffic to the top-ranking page for a better understanding of the topic’s organic traffic potential.
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Ahrefs boasts the largest database of US search queries: <a>4 billion.</a>
BACKLINKS
Reverse-engineer your competitors’ backlinks for link building opportunities on pages with lots of search traffic.
Ahrefs’ web crawler is <a>the second most active after Google</a>.
Search our database of over eight billion pages for content mentioning your target keywords. Filter the results by SEO metrics like organic traffic, Domain Rating (DR), and backlinks to find thousands of relevant link prospects in seconds.
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We add 30 million new pages to Content Explorer every day.
TOP PAGES
Compare how the number of published pages on a website correlates (or not) with its search traffic.
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We pull traffic estimations from 475 million keywords in 155 countries.
ORGANIC KEYWORDS
Choose a time period for comparison to see current and historic rankings for any keyword. Learn how ranking fluctuations have affected search traffic over time.
Our historical ranking data goes all the way back to 2015.
TOP SUBFOLDERS
Get a better understanding of your competitors’ website structure, and see which sections of their site attract the most search traffic in each country.
ORGANIC KEYWORDS
See how rankings are progressing for your target keyword, and compare progress with competitors.
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We store over 6 years of historical ranking data
BEST BY LINKS
LINK OPPORTUNITIES
Browse any website’s internal links without having to crawl it. See which pages have the most internal links and check what those links are. Use Site Audit to automatically generate internal link ideas.
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There are 24.5 trillion internal backlinks in our database.
Increase your website’s traffic with the industry’s favorite SEO tool today.