This free bulk DR checker shows the Ahrefs Domain Rating (DR) for up to 200 domains at once. Paste a list of sites, and the tool cleans each one down to its domain, removes duplicates, and returns a sortable table with DR and link counts. You can copy the results or download them as a CSV for your outreach sheet.
How to use the bulk DR checker
- Paste domains or full URLs, one per line. The tool strips https://, www. and paths for you.
- Check the live counts: valid, invalid and duplicates removed.
- Click the check button.
- Sort by DR, referring domains or backlinks by clicking the column header.
- Copy the table or export it as CSV.
What Domain Rating means
In Ahrefs' own explanation of Domain Rating, DR measures the relative strength of a website's backlink profile on a scale from 0 to 100. It looks at the unique domains that link to a site with followed links, and how strong each of those domains is. Only the first link from each domain counts, so a thousand links from one site add up to one vote.
The scale is logarithmic. That means the jump from DR 70 to DR 71 is much bigger than the jump from DR 20 to DR 21. Small sites can gain points quickly. Big sites move slowly.
What DR does not tell you
DR is a useful shortcut, but it is not a Google number. Google does not use it. Ahrefs makes the same point: Google ranks pages, not whole websites. A few other limits:
- It is links only. DR ignores traffic, content quality, brand and domain age.
- It can be inflated. Ahrefs notes that DR does not account for backlink spam, so a site can look strong on paper and have no real audience.
- It changes. Your DR can drop when other sites gain links, even if nothing on your site changed.
My rule: use DR to sort a list, then check the shortlist by hand. Does the site have real articles, real readers and search traffic? Does it fit your topic or your city?
When to use a bulk DR checker
- Cutting a long list of outreach targets down to the ones worth an email.
- Comparing your site with the businesses that outrank you.
- Checking a guest post or sponsorship offer before you reply.
- Vetting expired domains or link sources before you spend money.
Common mistakes
- Using DR as the only filter. A relevant local site with DR 20 can be worth more than an unrelated DR 70 site.
- Buying links on DR alone. Google's spam policies treat paid links that pass ranking credit as link spam. Sponsored links should carry rel=“sponsored” or rel=“nofollow”.
- Comparing DR with DA. They are different scores from different tools. Pick one and stay consistent.
- Mixing up subdomains. The tool keeps subdomains as you type them, so blog.example.com and example.com are checked as two separate sites.
Next steps
Run the same list through the bulk DA PA checker for a second view, or browse the expired domain finder if you are hunting for a domain. For links earned the right way, see my local link building service. If you want to know why competitors outrank you, my competitor analysis breaks down their links and pages.