Domain authority
guardian.co.uk domain authority
guardian.co.uk has a domain authority score of 68 out of 100 (above average for a business website), based on 45,767 referring domains and a web graph rank of 5,026 among 133 million domains.
All metrics for guardian.co.uk
| Authority score | 68 / 100 |
|---|---|
| Referring domains | 45,767 |
| Web graph rank (harmonic centrality) | #5,026 (top 0.01%) |
| PageRank position | #1,227 |
| Subdomains seen in the crawl | 110 |
| Majestic Million rank | #546 |
| Majestic referring subnets / IPs | 22,824 / 45,469 |
| Traffic rank | not in Chrome's top 1M |
| Position by authority in our top 20,000 | #1,198 |
How the authority score is calculated
The score is the average of two parts, each from 0 to 100:
- Rank part:
100 × (1 − log10(rank) / log10(N))^0.6, where rank is the domain's harmonic centrality position in the Common Crawl web graph (how close it is to every other domain through links) and N is the number of ranked domains (133,241,980). - Link part:
100 × log10(1 + referring domains) / 7, so 10 million referring domains = 100.
For this domain: rank part 69.4 (web graph rank 5,026 of 133,241,980), link part 66.6 (45,767 referring domains), average 68.0, rounded to 68.
It is consistent across all 120 million domains in the data, so it is good for ranking and filtering lists. It is not Moz Domain Authority or Ahrefs Domain Rating. Referring domains count other domains that link to this one, not individual backlinks; no list of linking pages is included.
Domains with a similar authority score
| # | Domain | Authority | Referring domains | Web graph rank | Traffic rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,194 | qodeinteractive.com | 68 | 48,237 | 4,328 | not in Chrome's top 1M |
| 1,195 | de.com | 68 | 47,955 | 5,409 | Top 100K websites (Chrome) |
| 1,196 | fema.gov | 68 | 47,565 | 4,359 | Top 100K websites (Chrome) |
| 1,197 | liveinternet.ru | 68 | 46,360 | 5,429 | Top 50K websites (Chrome) |
| 1,199 | qpic.cn | 68 | 45,355 | 6,076 | not in Chrome's top 1M |
| 1,200 | tabelog.com | 68 | 45,252 | 5,680 | Top 1K websites (Chrome) |
| 1,201 | yimg.com | 68 | 43,685 | 4,732 | not in Chrome's top 1M |
| 1,202 | myftpupload.com | 68 | 43,541 | 3,952 | not in Chrome's top 1M |
Tech stack
guardian.co.uk is built with Polyfill.io, Google Publisher Tag and Comscore (detected from the public home page). Full tech stack of guardian.co.uk →
AI crawler policy
AI crawler policy: Blocks some AI search. GPTBot is allowed, ClaudeBot is blocked and PerplexityBot is blocked in its robots.txt (checked 2026-10-02). Does guardian.co.uk block GPTBot? →
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FAQ
- What is the domain authority of guardian.co.uk?
- guardian.co.uk has a domain authority score of 68 out of 100 (above average for a business website), based on 45,767 referring domains and a web graph rank of 5,026 among 133 million domains. The score is our own open-data metric (0-100) and is not Moz Domain Authority or Ahrefs Domain Rating.
- How many backlinks does guardian.co.uk have?
- guardian.co.uk is linked to from 45,767 other domains in the Common Crawl web graph (release cc-main-2026-jul-aug-sep). This counts referring domains, not individual backlinks, and Common Crawl does not see the whole web, so commercial tools that crawl more will show larger numbers.
- How does guardian.co.uk rank among all websites?
- Its web graph rank (harmonic centrality) is 5,026 out of 133,241,980 ranked domains, which puts it in the top 0.01%. Its PageRank position is 1,227. Majestic Million ranks it #546.
- Is the guardian.co.uk authority score the same as Moz DA or Ahrefs DR?
- No. It is an independent score computed from open data (Common Crawl, Majestic Million, Chrome UX Report). It is consistent across all domains, so it works for comparing and filtering sites, but the numbers will not match the commercial tools.