A free alternative to the Ahrefs backlink checker
Ahrefs shows a limited free backlink report for verified sites and a trimmed version for other domains. This tool needs no verification and no account: enter any domain and see its backlinks, referring domains and Domain Rating.
What you get compared with the free Ahrefs checker
The free Ahrefs backlink checker is a good way to peek at a profile, but it shows only a slice of the data. This page returns Domain Rating, backlink and referring-domain counts, dofollow share, strongest referring sites, top anchors and most-linked pages for any domain, in one view.
Where Ahrefs is better
Ahrefs runs its own crawler and reports fresher, larger data, plus keyword research, rank tracking and site audits. Our index is built from Common Crawl and refreshed roughly monthly, so new links take longer to show up and the numbers will not match. Our Domain Rating is our own metric, not Ahrefs DR.
Where this fits
Use it for quick checks, for comparing many sites on one yardstick, and whenever you want the same data in your own code: the backlink API returns it as JSON, with free Domain Rating lookups.
FAQ
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