Domain authority
metacritic.com domain authority
metacritic.com has a domain authority score of 68 out of 100 (above average for a business website), based on 12,776 referring domains and a web graph rank of 867 among 133 million domains; its traffic rank is Top 50K websites (Chrome).
All metrics for metacritic.com
| Authority score | 68 / 100 |
|---|---|
| Referring domains | 12,776 |
| Web graph rank (harmonic centrality) | #867 (top 0.01%) |
| PageRank position | #4,131 |
| Subdomains seen in the crawl | 14 |
| Majestic Million rank | #2,760 |
| Majestic referring subnets / IPs | 7,945 / 17,262 |
| Traffic rank | Top 50K websites (Chrome) |
| Position by authority in our top 20,000 | #1,482 |
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 76.4 (web graph rank 867 of 133,241,980), link part 58.7 (12,776 referring domains), average 67.5, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,478 | newsbreak.com | 68 | 13,371 | 749 | not in Chrome's top 1M |
| 1,479 | blm.gov | 68 | 13,228 | 868 | Top 500K websites (Chrome) |
| 1,480 | onelink.to | 68 | 13,000 | 660 | Top 500K websites (Chrome) |
| 1,481 | 404media.co | 68 | 12,977 | 657 | Top 500K websites (Chrome) |
| 1,483 | cbs.com | 68 | 12,772 | 607 | Top 50K websites (Chrome) |
| 1,484 | numbeo.com | 68 | 12,682 | 517 | Top 100K websites (Chrome) |
| 1,485 | sage.com | 68 | 12,663 | 834 | Top 50K websites (Chrome) |
| 1,486 | sun.com | 68 | 12,541 | 605 | not in Chrome's top 1M |
Tech stack
metacritic.com is built with Nuxt, Vue.js, Cloudflare Web Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Amazon Publisher Services, Google Publisher Tag, Cloudflare and Cloudflare Bot Management and 2 more (detected from the public home page). Full tech stack of metacritic.com →
AI crawler policy
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FAQ
- What is the domain authority of metacritic.com?
- metacritic.com has a domain authority score of 68 out of 100 (above average for a business website), based on 12,776 referring domains and a web graph rank of 867 among 133 million domains; its traffic rank is Top 50K websites (Chrome). The score is our own open-data metric (0-100) and is not Moz Domain Authority or Ahrefs Domain Rating.
- How many backlinks does metacritic.com have?
- metacritic.com is linked to from 12,776 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 metacritic.com rank among all websites?
- Its web graph rank (harmonic centrality) is 867 out of 133,241,980 ranked domains, which puts it in the top 0.01%. Its PageRank position is 4,131. Majestic Million ranks it #2,760.
- Is the metacritic.com 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.