stanford.edu domain authority

All metrics for stanford.edu

Top referring domains of stanford.edu

These are the 10 best-connected websites that link to stanford.edu in the Common Crawl domain-level web graph (release cc-main-2026-jul-aug-sep, updated quarterly). stanford.edu has 166,110 referring domains in total; 71,560 of them are among the 5,000,000 best-connected domains of the graph, which are the ones we can list and rank here.

Domain-level data: each row is a whole domain that links to stanford.edu at least once somewhere on its site, not a single backlink or page, and no anchor text or link type is included. Common Crawl samples the public web, so a link can be missing and commercial backlink tools will show more.

Traffic rank of stanford.edu

stanford.edu is in Chrome's global Top 100K websites (August 2026), and is listed in 10 countries. Six-month trend: down: in a lower bucket than 6 months ago (Top 50K then). In the global top 1M in 12 of the last 12 months.

Top countries

Last 12 months (global)

Source: Chrome UX Report (Google, CC BY 4.0), the monthly popularity lists of origins by real Chrome page loads. A rank is a bucket, not an exact position: "Top 10K" means among the 10,000 most visited origins. It measures reach in Chrome, not visits, so it is not Similarweb traffic. Rank lists by country: Traffic rank by country.

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 84.6 (web graph rank 94 of 133,241,980), link part 74.6 (166,110 referring domains), average 79.6, rounded to 80.

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.

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Tech stack

stanford.edu is built with Next.js, React, Contentsquare, Google Analytics, Netlify, YouTube and Tailwind CSS (detected from the public home page). Full tech stack of stanford.edu →

AI crawler policy

AI crawler policy: Open. GPTBot is allowed, ClaudeBot is allowed and PerplexityBot is allowed in its robots.txt (checked 2026-10-02). Does stanford.edu block GPTBot? →

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FAQ

What is the domain authority of stanford.edu?

stanford.edu has a domain authority score of 80 out of 100 (very high), based on 166,110 referring domains and a web graph rank of 94 among 133 million domains; its traffic rank is Top 100K 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 stanford.edu have?

stanford.edu is linked to from 166,110 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 stanford.edu rank among all websites?

Its web graph rank (harmonic centrality) is 94 out of 133,241,980 ranked domains, which puts it in the top 0.01%. Its PageRank position is 371. Majestic Million ranks it #130.

Is the stanford.edu 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.

Which websites link to stanford.edu?

The best-connected referring domains of stanford.edu in the Common Crawl web graph (release cc-main-2026-jul-aug-sep) are googleapis.com, google.com, linkedin.com, cloudflare.com and apple.com. This is a domain-level list from a quarterly crawl, so it names whole domains that link to stanford.edu, not individual backlinks, and it is not complete.

What is the traffic rank of stanford.edu?

stanford.edu is in Chrome's global Top 100K websites in August 2026 (Chrome UX Report, a rank bucket rather than an exact position).