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Ahrefs

ahrefs.com

A comprehensive SEO toolset for website analysis, keyword research, and competitor tracking. Ahrefs offers features like backlink analysis, keyword rankings, content gap analysis, and site audits. It helps digital marketers and SEO professionals improve their website's search engine visibility, analyze competitors, and develop effective content strategies.

Ahrefs belongs toAnalyticsSEOcategories.

22websites

use it — 0.9% of the 2,560 websites we scanned in the last 12 months

#38of 144

tools in its category seen in our scans (we recognize 464)

20public pages

on UptimeCard — open any of them to see how that site is doing

0.28% of all websites we track run Ahrefs▲ 0.03 points since 20 Sep

At a glance

UptimeCard's own scans and tests of 2,560 websites · refreshed weekly

How Ahrefs sites scoreout of 100 · hover or tap a score for details

54PerformanceLowaverage site: 5089AccessibilityGoodaverage site: 8996Best practicesGoodaverage site: 9392SEOGoodaverage site: 92

Page load time

Loads about as fast as the average site

Ahrefs sites
4.6 s
All sites
4.3 s

Most Ahrefs sites load in 3.0–5.5 s. Home page weight: 2.8 MB vs 3.3 MB for all sites. 20 public sites measured.

Where are they hosted?

Mostly Amazon Web Services and Cloudflare

  • Amazon Web Services35%
  • Cloudflare35%
  • Google Cloud10%
  • 23M GmbH5%
  • Other15%
United States 55%Canada 25%Germany 10%

Who uses it?

Technology and Software is the biggest group

Technology and Software1.4× avg80%
Community Forums5%
Domain Registration and Hosting5%
Social Networking5%

Share of 20 classified public sites. “× average” compares with all 961 public sites.

How Ahrefs sites are built

Closest partners. The number says how many times more often the tool runs on Ahrefs sites than on an average website. Hover a partner for its share of sites.

Webflow6×Piwik PRO Core5×Amazon S34×Google Hosted Libraries4×Tailwind CSS4×DoubleClick Floodlight4×Linkedin Insight Tag3×HubSpot3×Microsoft Advertising2×

Usually installed alongside

The bigger the bubble, the more of the 22 Ahrefs sites also run the tool. Colour shows what the tool does. Hover or tap a bubble for details.

Google Tag Manager96%Google Analytics77%Linkedin Insight Tag50%Piwik PRO Core36%DoubleClick Floodlight36%Microsoft Advertising32%Reddit Ads18%HubSpot27%6sense14%Webflow23%Cookiebot18%OneTrust18%
Tag managerAnalyticsAdvertisingMarketingPage builderCookie consent

Similar tools in its category

Analytics: 464 tools known, 144 seen in our scans

Google Analytics1,371 sitesAlternativeFacebook Pixel469 sitesAlternativeMicrosoft Clarity236 sitesAlternativeYoast SEO230 sitesAlternativeCloudflare Browser Insights218 sitesAlternativeHubSpot Analytics166 sitesAlternativeGoogle Ads Conversion Tracking141 sitesAlternativeHotjar113 sitesAlternativeLinkedin Insight Tag435 sitesUsed togetherPiwik PRO Core181 sitesUsed together

How websites combine Ahrefs with other tools

Relationships found on the websites that use it, from the same map status pages show.

Complements another tool 15Integrates with another 1Overlaps with another 1

Websites using Ahrefs

22 websites use Ahrefs: 0.9% of the 2,560 websites we scanned in the last 12 months. A selection is shown below.

Scores are out of 100: P Performance · A Accessibility · B Best practices · S SEO. Green 80+, yellow 65–79, orange 50–64, red below 50. The dot shows whether our last scan found the site failing (red) or not (green); Red, amber or blue: an active incident on the site's status page (outage, degraded, maintenance) or a failing scan; amber also means a certificate ending within 30 days. Hover the dot for details.

Questions about Ahrefs

How many websites use Ahrefs?
We found Ahrefs on 22 of the 2,560 websites we scanned in the last 12 months (0.9%). 20 of them have a public status page.
What is Ahrefs often used with?
Among the websites we scan, Ahrefs is often found alongside Google Analytics (77.3% of its sites), Amazon Web Services (50% of its sites), Linkedin Insight Tag (50% of its sites).
What are the alternatives to Ahrefs?
Other analytics tools we recognize include Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel, Linkedin Insight Tag, Microsoft Clarity.

Is your website built with Ahrefs?

UptimeCard checks it around the clock, tells you the minute it stops answering, and gives your visitors a status page.

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