Backlinks per URL
Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2025 8:42 am
When I said I would show "warts and all," I meant it. Determining whether a domain is in the index is not as easy as you might think. For example, maybe a domain has pages in the index, but not a homepage. Well, it took me a while to figure it out, but by February of this year I had it figured out.
It’s also important to note the scale of this graph. Over the past few months, the difference between Moz, Majestic, and Ahrefs has been between 99.4 and 100%. This indicates how close the link indexes are in terms of knowing about root domains. Majestic has historically tended to win this metric with almost 100% coverage, but you would have to bahrain number data pick 100 random domains to find one that Moz or Ahrefs don’t have information about. However, Moz’s continued growth has allowed us to catch up. While the indexes are very close, as of this writing, Moz is winning.
Which index has the highest number of backlinks for a randomly selected URL?
This is a really hard metric to pin down. Unfortunately, it’s not easy to determine which backlinks should count and which shouldn’t. For example, imagine a page with a URL linking to it, but that page includes that link 100 times. Are those 100 backlinks or one? Well, it turns out that different link indexes probably measure these types of scenarios differently and getting a precise definition from each one is like pulling teeth because the definition is so complicated and there are so many edge cases. Anyway, I think this is a great example where we can demonstrate the importance of direction. In fact, whatever the metrics, Moz and Majestic are catching up to Ahrefs, which has been the leader for some time. Ahrefs is winning as of this writing.
It’s also important to note the scale of this graph. Over the past few months, the difference between Moz, Majestic, and Ahrefs has been between 99.4 and 100%. This indicates how close the link indexes are in terms of knowing about root domains. Majestic has historically tended to win this metric with almost 100% coverage, but you would have to bahrain number data pick 100 random domains to find one that Moz or Ahrefs don’t have information about. However, Moz’s continued growth has allowed us to catch up. While the indexes are very close, as of this writing, Moz is winning.
Which index has the highest number of backlinks for a randomly selected URL?
This is a really hard metric to pin down. Unfortunately, it’s not easy to determine which backlinks should count and which shouldn’t. For example, imagine a page with a URL linking to it, but that page includes that link 100 times. Are those 100 backlinks or one? Well, it turns out that different link indexes probably measure these types of scenarios differently and getting a precise definition from each one is like pulling teeth because the definition is so complicated and there are so many edge cases. Anyway, I think this is a great example where we can demonstrate the importance of direction. In fact, whatever the metrics, Moz and Majestic are catching up to Ahrefs, which has been the leader for some time. Ahrefs is winning as of this writing.