DR Checker: Bulk Domain Rating Lookup
Full URLs are fine; only the domain is checked. Up to 10 per run, 40 per 10 minutes.
| Domain | DR | What it means for outreach |
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Domain Rating by Ahrefs, via their free API. Not Moz DA.
Paste domains, get Ahrefs Domain Rating (0 to 100) for each, highest first. The number comes straight from Ahrefs' API; nothing is estimated.
DR is not DA. Domain Authority is Moz's score. They measure the same idea from different link data and rarely match.
What DR does not tell you: whether a site will answer you. See the data below.
We looked at the 20,313 sites MentionAgent emailed between 1 July and 25 September 2026 and asked whether each one replied. Median DR of the sites: 45. Overall reply rate: 7.4%.
Reply rate barely moves with DR: 6.3% under DR 10, 7.1% at DR 30 to 39, 10.0% at DR 60 to 69, 7.5% at DR 70 to 84.
The exception is the top: 2 of 70 sites at DR 85 and up replied (2.9%).
What does change with size is the answer: 41% of replies from DR 60+ asked for payment, against 18% under DR 20 (from our top-tier coverage study).
Checking DR is step one. Getting the mention is the rest.
MentionAgent finds the blog posts in your niche worth appearing in, checks each site, finds and verifies the editor's email, writes a pitch about that specific post and handles the replies through to the live link. You approve every draft.
See how MentionAgent worksWhat Domain Rating measures
Domain Rating is Ahrefs' score, from 0 to 100, for how strong a site's backlink profile is. It looks at how many different sites link to the domain with followed links, and how strong each of those linking sites is in turn. A link from a site that itself has a high DR and links out to few places counts for more than a link from a weak site that links everywhere. Nofollow, sponsored and UGC links are not counted.
The scale is logarithmic. A new site can move from DR 0 to 20 on a modest number of decent links; moving from 70 to 80 takes many times more. That is why a jump of 10 points means very different things at the two ends of the scale, and why comparing two sites is more useful than reading one number on its own.
DR measures links and nothing else. It does not measure traffic, rankings, content quality or whether the site is real. A site can hold a high DR from links it earned years ago and get almost no visitors today, and a small niche blog with DR 15 can be the page your buyers actually read. Google does not use DR; it is a third-party estimate built from Ahrefs' own crawl.
Is this a DA checker? DR vs DA
No, and the difference matters when someone quotes you a number. DA (Domain Authority) is Moz's score, DR is Ahrefs'. Both try to estimate the same thing, a site's link strength on a 0 to 100 scale, but they are built from different link indexes and different formulas, so the same site usually gets two different numbers. Neither is more correct; they are two rulers.
| Domain Rating (DR) | Domain Authority (DA) | |
|---|---|---|
| Made by | Ahrefs | Moz |
| Scale | 0 to 100, logarithmic | 1 to 100, logarithmic |
| Built from | Followed links from unique domains, weighted by the linking site's own DR | A machine-learning model over Moz's link index |
| Used by Google | No | No |
| When you'll see it | Ahrefs reports and many link vendor listings | Guest post marketplaces, older SEO audits |
Practical rule: when a link seller quotes "DA 50", check it in Moz, not here. When they quote "DR 50", this tool will tell you in a second whether it's true. Our glossary has the longer version for Domain Rating and Domain Authority.
Does a higher DR mean a site is harder to get a reply from?
This is the question behind most DR lookups in outreach: is this site worth emailing, or is it out of reach? We have the data to answer it. Between 1 July and 25 September 2026, MentionAgent pitched 20,313 sites whose DR we knew, each email about a specific post on that site. We counted a site as replied if anyone there answered with a real message, excluding out-of-office replies, ticket acknowledgements and bounce notices, and counted per site rather than per address, because the person who answers is often not the address we wrote to. Only sends at least three days old are included, so late replies had time to arrive.
| DR of the site | Sites emailed | Replied | Reply rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 to 9 | 2,736 | 172 | 6.3% |
| 10 to 19 | 1,571 | 109 | 6.9% |
| 20 to 29 | 2,035 | 147 | 7.2% |
| 30 to 39 | 2,581 | 182 | 7.1% |
| 40 to 49 | 2,369 | 140 | 5.9% |
| 50 to 59 | 2,541 | 218 | 8.6% |
| 60 to 69 | 1,999 | 199 | 10.0% |
| 70 to 79 | 3,527 | 265 | 7.5% |
| 80 to 84 | 884 | 66 | 7.5% |
| 85 and up | 70 | 2 | 2.9% |
| All | 20,313 | 1,500 | 7.4% |
From DR 0 to 84 the reply rate stays between 5.9% and 10.0%, with no slope down as sites get bigger. The idea that you should only pitch sites your own size because big sites ignore small senders does not show up here. The one band that does behave differently is 85 and up, the national publications, where 2 of 70 replied; MentionAgent now leaves those out of cold outreach entirely.
What changes with size is what the reply says. When we sorted how 1,084 publishers answered for the top-tier coverage piece, sites at DR 60 and up asked for payment in 41% of their answers, against 18% for sites under DR 20. Free mentions came back at a similar rate across sizes. So a high DR is not a reason to skip a site, but it is a reason to expect a rate card, and to have an answer ready. Ours is that we exchange mentions and don't pay for placements.
Reading the number
Each result comes with one line about what that band means for outreach. The bands are how we read DR when deciding whom to pitch, not a universal grading:
- 85 and up: the biggest publications, platforms and brands. Coverage here comes from PR and news, not a cold email about a blog post.
- 60 to 84: strong sites. They answer about as often as small blogs, but many answers come with a price.
- 30 to 59: established blogs, the middle of most outreach lists.
- 10 to 29: small sites. DR barely moves the reply odds here; whether the page is about your topic matters far more.
- Under 10: new or very small sites. Judge them by the page, its traffic and whether real people comment, not by the score.
For your own site, the useful comparison is against the sites that rank for the searches you want. Paste your domain and five of theirs; if you are 30 points behind, links are likely part of the gap. If you are level and still behind, the gap is somewhere else. Our backlink ROI calculator puts a rough value on closing it.
Frequently asked questions
What is Domain Rating?
Domain Rating (DR) is Ahrefs' 0 to 100 score for the strength of a site's backlink profile. It counts how many unique sites link to the domain with followed links and how strong those sites are themselves, and it is logarithmic: going from 20 to 30 takes far fewer links than going from 70 to 80. It says nothing about traffic, content or rankings directly.
Is this a DA checker?
No. DA (Domain Authority) is Moz's score and this tool shows Ahrefs' Domain Rating. The two measure the same idea from different link indexes and formulas, so they usually land in the same neighborhood but rarely on the same number. If a buyer or a vendor quotes DA, check it in Moz; if they quote DR, this is the number they mean.
Where does the number come from?
From Ahrefs' free Domain Rating API, called through our server because the API does not allow calls from a browser. We do not estimate or adjust it. Successful lookups are kept for 24 hours, so a second check of the same domain is instant; a failed lookup shows as a dash and is never filled in with a guess.
Why is there a limit of 10 domains?
Ahrefs answers most lookups in under a second but some take 2 to 13 seconds, and the free API rate-limits bursts. Ten at a time, two in parallel, keeps a batch under a minute. Each visitor gets 40 lookups per 10 minutes.
Does a higher DR mean a site is more likely to reply to outreach?
Not in our data. Across 20,313 sites MentionAgent emailed between 1 July and 25 September 2026, the reply rate stayed between 5.9% and 10.0% in every DR band from 0 to 84. What changes with size is the answer: 41% of replies from DR 60 and up asked for payment, against 18% under DR 20. Above DR 85 almost nobody replied (2 of 70).
What is a good Domain Rating?
There is no fixed good number, because DR is relative to your niche and to the sites you compete with. The useful comparison is your DR against the sites ranking for your target searches: check a handful of them here and see where you sit. For choosing sites to pitch, relevance of the page beats DR.