Ahrefs

Domain Rating

Get the Domain Rating (DR) and Ahrefs Rank for a target domain. Domain Rating shows the strength of a website's backlink profile on a scale from 0 to 100.

Metrics Overview

Get a one-call organic and paid search overview for a target domain or URL: organic traffic, organic keywords, paid traffic, paid keywords, and estimated traffic cost.

Backlinks

Get a list of backlinks pointing to a target domain or URL. Returns details about each backlink including source URL, anchor text, and domain rating.

Backlinks Stats

Get backlink and referring domain totals for a target domain or URL, both currently live and across all time.

Referring Domains

Get a list of domains that link to a target domain or URL. Returns unique referring domains with their domain rating, backlink counts, and discovery dates.

Broken Backlinks

Get a list of broken backlinks pointing to a target domain or URL. Useful for identifying link reclamation opportunities.

Organic Keywords

Get organic keywords that a target domain or URL ranks for in Google search results. Returns keyword details including search volume, ranking position, and estimated traffic.

Organic Competitors

Get domains that compete with a target domain or URL for the same organic keywords, ranked by keyword overlap.

Top Pages

Get the top pages of a target domain sorted by organic traffic. Returns page URLs with their traffic, keyword counts, and estimated traffic value.

Paid Pages

Get a target domain's pages that receive paid search traffic, sorted by estimated paid traffic. Returns page URLs with their paid traffic, keyword counts, and estimated spend.

Anchors

Get the anchor text distribution for a target domain or URL's backlinks, showing how many links and referring domains use each anchor text.

Keyword Overview

Get detailed metrics for a keyword including search volume, keyword difficulty, CPC, clicks, and traffic potential.

Related Terms

Get keyword ideas related to a seed keyword: terms the same top-ranking pages also rank for ("also rank for") or also discuss ("also talk about"), with volume, difficulty, and CPC.

Domain Rating History

Get the historical Domain Rating (DR) trend for a target domain or URL over a date range, grouped daily, weekly, or monthly.

Metrics History

Get the historical organic and paid traffic trend for a target domain or URL over a date range: organic traffic/cost and paid traffic/cost at each point in time.

Referring Domains History

Get the historical referring domains trend for a target domain or URL over a date range, grouped daily, weekly, or monthly.

Keywords History

Get the historical organic keyword ranking distribution for a target domain or URL over a date range: how many keywords rank in each position bucket at each point in time.

Batch Analysis

Get bulk SEO metrics (Domain Rating, backlinks, referring domains, organic traffic, and more) for multiple domains or URLs in a single request. Useful for comparing many competitors at once.

Site Audit Page Explorer

Get crawled pages from an Ahrefs Site Audit project with health and SEO metrics: HTTP status, title, link counts, backlinks, indexability, and traffic. Optionally filter to pages affected by a specific issue.

Rank Tracker Overview

Get ranking overview metrics for the keywords tracked in an Ahrefs Rank Tracker project: position, search volume, keyword difficulty, and estimated traffic. This endpoint is free and does not consume API units.

Rank Tracker SERP Overview

Get the full SERP (search engine results page) for a keyword tracked in an Ahrefs Rank Tracker project, including every ranking URL with its position, title, and authority metrics. This endpoint is free and does not consume API units.

Rank Tracker Competitors Overview

Get competitor rankings for the keywords tracked in an Ahrefs Rank Tracker project: each tracked keyword's volume and difficulty alongside every competitor's position, traffic, and traffic value. This endpoint is free and does not consume API units.

Rank Tracker Competitors Stats

Get aggregate competitor stats for an Ahrefs Rank Tracker project: each competitor's traffic, traffic value, average position, and share of voice across all tracked keywords. This endpoint is free and does not consume API units.