Domain authority
whatsapp.com domain authority
whatsapp.com has a domain authority score of 90 out of 100 (exceptional (the best-connected sites on the web)), based on 2,129,474 referring domains and a web graph rank of 24 among 133 million domains; its traffic rank is Top 1K websites (Chrome).
All metrics for whatsapp.com
| Authority score | 90 / 100 |
|---|---|
| Referring domains | 2,129,474 |
| Web graph rank (harmonic centrality) | #24 (top 0.01%) |
| PageRank position | #25 |
| Subdomains seen in the crawl | 90 |
| Majestic Million rank | #27 |
| Majestic referring subnets / IPs | 158,231 / 553,575 |
| Traffic rank | Top 1K websites (Chrome) |
| Position by authority in our top 20,000 | #20 |
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 89.4 (web graph rank 24 of 133,241,980), link part 90.4 (2,129,474 referring domains), average 89.9, rounded to 90.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | jsdelivr.net | 91 | 2,614,596 | 18 | Top 1M websites (Chrome) |
| 17 | apple.com | 91 | 2,445,268 | 13 | Top 1K websites (Chrome) |
| 18 | goo.gl | 91 | 2,323,086 | 20 | Top 1M websites (Chrome) |
| 19 | wikipedia.org | 91 | 2,198,837 | 14 | Top 1K websites (Chrome) |
| 21 | youtu.be | 90 | 1,987,050 | 17 | not in Chrome's top 1M |
| 22 | x.com | 90 | 1,820,364 | 16 | Top 1K websites (Chrome) |
| 23 | wsimg.com | 89 | 2,327,255 | 44 | not in Chrome's top 1M |
| 24 | wa.me | 89 | 1,954,828 | 31 | Top 1M websites (Chrome) |
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 whatsapp.com block GPTBot? →
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FAQ
- What is the domain authority of whatsapp.com?
- whatsapp.com has a domain authority score of 90 out of 100 (exceptional (the best-connected sites on the web)), based on 2,129,474 referring domains and a web graph rank of 24 among 133 million domains; its traffic rank is Top 1K 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 whatsapp.com have?
- whatsapp.com is linked to from 2,129,474 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 whatsapp.com rank among all websites?
- Its web graph rank (harmonic centrality) is 24 out of 133,241,980 ranked domains, which puts it in the top 0.01%. Its PageRank position is 25. Majestic Million ranks it #27.
- Is the whatsapp.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.