Domain authority
snopes.com domain authority
snopes.com has a domain authority score of 70 out of 100 (high), based on 22,128 referring domains and a web graph rank of 561 among 133 million domains; its traffic rank is Top 50K websites (Chrome).
All metrics for snopes.com
| Authority score | 70 / 100 |
|---|---|
| Referring domains | 22,128 |
| Web graph rank (harmonic centrality) | #561 (top 0.01%) |
| PageRank position | #2,365 |
| Subdomains seen in the crawl | 19 |
| Majestic Million rank | #1,181 |
| Majestic referring subnets / IPs | 13,650 / 28,428 |
| Traffic rank | Top 50K websites (Chrome) |
| Position by authority in our top 20,000 | #927 |
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 78.1 (web graph rank 561 of 133,241,980), link part 62.1 (22,128 referring domains), average 70.1, rounded to 70.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 923 | biorxiv.org | 70 | 22,779 | 606 | Top 100K websites (Chrome) |
| 924 | openedition.org | 70 | 22,706 | 681 | Top 100K websites (Chrome) |
| 925 | iastate.edu | 70 | 22,665 | 672 | Top 500K websites (Chrome) |
| 926 | neocities.org | 70 | 22,564 | 678 | Top 50K websites (Chrome) |
| 928 | lowes.com | 70 | 21,871 | 599 | Top 1K websites (Chrome) |
| 929 | ipsos.com | 70 | 21,854 | 622 | Top 500K websites (Chrome) |
| 930 | angi.com | 70 | 21,588 | 581 | Top 50K websites (Chrome) |
| 931 | home.blog | 70 | 21,522 | 549 | Top 500K websites (Chrome) |
Tech stack
snopes.com is built with Swiper, Comscore, Google Analytics, Google Ads, Cloudflare and Cloudflare Bot Management (detected from the public home page). Full tech stack of snopes.com →
AI crawler policy
AI crawler policy: Blocks some AI search. GPTBot is blocked, ClaudeBot is blocked and PerplexityBot is blocked in its robots.txt (checked 2026-10-02). Does snopes.com block GPTBot? →
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FAQ
- What is the domain authority of snopes.com?
- snopes.com has a domain authority score of 70 out of 100 (high), based on 22,128 referring domains and a web graph rank of 561 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 snopes.com have?
- snopes.com is linked to from 22,128 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 snopes.com rank among all websites?
- Its web graph rank (harmonic centrality) is 561 out of 133,241,980 ranked domains, which puts it in the top 0.01%. Its PageRank position is 2,365. Majestic Million ranks it #1,181.
- Is the snopes.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.