Free DR Checker, with the link spam it hides

A DR counts every linking domain. This shows how many are spam.

  • Free, no signup or email
  • Ahrefs DR and DataForSEO spam scores
Clean domains·· /··
CleanLink spam, score 30 or more
Domain Rating··Domain Rating by Ahrefs

Enter a domain above. Its Domain Rating and the share of its links that are spam appear here.

Every referring domain

  • Link spam, highest score first
  • Clean domains, strongest first
See all domains, spam first, each with its score.

What it reads, and what it does not

Your next moves

Three moves, ranked by impact. They are the same for every result.

1

Earn links from sites your buyers read

Impact: highEffort: high

Industry roundups, comparison reviews and communities your category trusts. The slow part, and the one that moves the .

2

Report the clean count, not the total

Impact: mediumEffort: low

Put the clean count next to the DR, so a month of spam links cannot read as growth.

3

Leave the spam alone

Impact: lowEffort: none

Google ignores most link spam on its own. Disavow only a clear pattern, after reading the list.

How it works

How to Check a Domain Rating and Its Link Spam

1 EnterEnter the domain

A bare domain, a www address or a full URL, one domain per check.

2 ReadWe read two sources

The Domain Rating from Ahrefs, and up to the 1,000 strongest referring domains from DataForSEO, each with a spam score.

3 ResultRead the split, not just the DR

A spam score of 30 or more counts as link spam, and you see that split beside the DR, never the DR on its own.

What it reads

What This DR Checker Reads, and What It Does Not

Read on every check
  • The Domain Rating, from Ahrefs' free DR API. DR is Ahrefs' metric, not ours, and it is always shown with their attribution.
  • The live referring domains in DataForSEO's index, with subdomains of one site counted once, up to the 1,000 strongest by DataForSEO's domain rank.
  • DataForSEO's spam score for each referring domain. The split into clean and link spam at a score of 30 is our reading of that score, not DataForSEO's verdict.
  • When each source was read. Readings are reused for up to a week.
Not covered
  • Google's view. Google does not use DR, and it does not publish which links it counts or ignores.
  • A verdict on any single link. A spam score is an estimate, and 30 is a threshold we chose, so read the list before acting on one domain.
  • Individual backlinks, anchor text or lost links. The checker counts linking domains.
  • More than 1,000 referring domains. A larger profile is split on its 1,000 strongest, and the result says so.

Why the split

A DR Tells You How Strong. Not What It Is Made Of.

A DR checker answers one question: how strong is this site's backlink profile, by Ahrefs' measure. It does not tell you whether the sites linking to it chose to.

We built this one after reading our own profile. In September 2026, 63 of the 80 domains DataForSEO listed as linking to rankzero.io scored as link spam, most of them from two Telegram link-selling networks. Across ten client sites we checked the same way, seven were more than half spam.

So a count of referring domains can mostly be counting spam. The number worth managing is how many clean domains link to you, and that is the number this checker puts next to the DR.

Questions

DR checker questions

What the check reads, where it stops, and what to do with the result.

A DR checker looks up a site's Domain Rating, the 0 to 100 score Ahrefs gives the strength of a backlink profile compared with the other sites in its index. Ahrefs describes it as driven by how many sites link to you, how strong they are, and how many other sites they link to, since a linking site splits its rating between everything it links to. This checker adds what a DR does not tell you: how many of the domains linking to the site are link spam.

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