Link metrics: what Ahrefs, Majestic and Moz show
We pull Domain Rating, Trust Flow, Citation Flow, Domain Authority, Page Authority and Spam Score from three sources. Here's what each one measures and when we refresh it.
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We check three sources, not one
Every listing here gets its link metrics from Ahrefs, Majestic and Moz—we read all three ourselves. Each metric shows the provider's name, the current score, how it shifted since last time (up arrow, down arrow, or a dot), and when we last checked.
What the numbers mean
Domain Rating (Ahrefs): how solid a site's backlink profile is, scored 0–100.
Trust Flow and Citation Flow (Majestic): Trust Flow ranks the credibility of sites that link to you; Citation Flow counts how many links point your way. Both scale 0–100.
Domain Authority (Moz): your whole domain's odds of ranking in search, 1–100.
Page Authority (Moz): same idea, but just for that one page (we look at your home page), 1–100.
Spam Score (Moz): what share of penalised or banned sites share traits with yours. Lower scores are better.
These are each provider's estimates, not Google's. No score guarantees rankings or traffic.
When we read your metrics
- Domain Rating refreshes roughly every 24 hours.
- Trust Flow and Citation Flow: every 30 days if you're on a paid plan, every 90 days on free.
- Moz scores: at launch, then every 30 days (paid) or 90 days (free). We also re-check the Moz figures of Maker Launches itself every 30 days. Unclaimed listings and unlive listings don't get Moz readings.
If Moz hasn't indexed your site yet, we skip those figures and try again after a week, then two weeks, then monthly. Sites on a subdomain only show Page Authority and Spam Score.
Questions people ask
- Do these scores affect how my launch ranks on this site?
- No. These link metrics come from Ahrefs, Majestic and Moz—they're third-party tools we show you for reference. Votes from the community rank launches here.
- Why do I see no Moz numbers?
- Moz may not have crawled your site yet. We check again after a week, then two weeks, then once a month until your data appears.
- Why does my subdomain only show two Moz scores?
- Domain Authority applies to the whole domain, not subdomains. On a subdomain we can show Page Authority and Spam Score only.