Ahrefs metrics and dimensions

  • Updated on Dec 11, 2025
  • Published on Aug 5, 2025
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64 metrics94 dimensions

ALL

alt
Field label Alt text
Description The alt attribute of the link
Field type dimension
Data type string.text.value
anchor
Field label Anchor
Description The clickable words in a link that point to a URL
Field type dimension
Data type string.text.value
best_position_has_video
Field label Best position has video
Description The top position has a video
Field type dimension
Data type bool
best_position_set
Field label Best position set
Description The ranking group of the top position
Field type dimension
Data type string.text.value
best_position_url
Field label URL
Description The ranking URL in organic search results
Field type dimension
Data type string.text.url
broken_redirect_new_target
Field label New destination of modified redirect
Description The new destination of a modified redirect
Field type dimension
Data type string.text.url
broken_redirect_reason
Field label Reason redirect was considered broken
Description The reason the redirect was considered broken during the last crawl
Field type dimension
Data type string.text.value
broken_redirect_source
Field label Referring domain of broken redirect
Description The redirecting URL that was modified, causing the redirect to become broken
Field type dimension
Data type string.text.url
discovered_status
Field label Discovered status
Description The reason the link was discovered during the last crawl: the page was crawled for the first time, the link was added to the page, or the link re-appeared after being removed
Field type dimension
Data type string.text.value
domain
Field label Domain
Description A referring domain that has at least one link to your target
Field type dimension
Data type string.text.url
drop_reason
Field label Drop reason
Description The reason we removed the link from our index
Field type dimension
Data type string.text.value
encoding
Field label Character encoding
Description The character set encoding of the referring page HTML
Field type dimension
Data type string.text.value
first_seen
Field label First seen page URL
Description The date the referring page URL was first discovered
Field type dimension
Data type string.time.datetime
http_code
Field label Referring page http code
Description The return code from HTTP protocol returned during the referring page crawl
Field type dimension
Data type string.text.value
http_crawl
Field label HTTP crawl status
Description The link was discovered without executing javascript and rendering the page
Field type dimension
Data type bool
ip_source
Field label Referring domain IP address
Description The referring domain IP address
Field type dimension
Data type string.text.value
is_alternate
Field label Alternate link
Description The link with the rel=“alternate” attribute
Field type dimension
Data type bool
is_best_position_set_top_11_50
Field label Is best position set top 11 50
Description The ranking group of the top position is 11-50
Field type dimension
Data type bool
is_best_position_set_top_3
Field label Is best position set top 3
Description The ranking group of the top position is Top 3
Field type dimension
Data type bool
is_canonical
Field label Canonical link
Description The link with the rel=“canonical” attribute
Field type dimension
Data type bool
is_content
Field label Content
Description The link was found in the biggest piece of content on the page
Field type dimension
Data type bool
is_dofollow
Field label Dofollow link
Description The link has no special nofollow attribute
Field type dimension
Data type bool
is_form
Field label Form link
Description The link was found in a form HTML tag
Field type dimension
Data type bool
is_frame
Field label Framed link
Description The link was found in an iframe HTML tag
Field type dimension
Data type bool
is_image
Field label Image link
Description The link is a regular link that has an image inside their href attribute
Field type dimension
Data type bool
is_lost
Field label Lost link
Description The link currently does not exist anymore
Field type dimension
Data type bool
is_new
Field label New link
Description The link was discovered on the last crawl
Field type dimension
Data type bool
is_nofollow
Field label Nofollow
Description The link or the referring page has the nofollow attribute set
Field type dimension
Data type bool
is_redirect
Field label Redirect
Description The link pointing to your target via a redirect
Field type dimension
Data type bool
is_redirect_lost
Field label Lost redirect
Description The redirected link currently does not exist anymore
Field type dimension
Data type bool
is_root_domain
Field label Root domain
Description The domain name is a root domain name
Field type dimension
Data type bool
is_root_source
Field label Root domain referring link
Description The referring domain name is a root domain name
Field type dimension
Data type bool
is_root_target
Field label Root domain target link
Description The target domain name is a root domain name
Field type dimension
Data type bool
is_rss
Field label RSS link
Description The link was found in an RSS feed
Field type dimension
Data type bool
is_sponsored
Field label Sponsored
Description The link has the Sponsored attribute set in the referring page HTML
Field type dimension
Data type bool
is_text
Field label Text link
Description The link is a standard href hyperlink
Field type dimension
Data type bool
is_ugc
Field label UGC
Description The link has the User Generated Content attribute set in the referring page HTML
Field type dimension
Data type bool
js_crawl
Field label Rendered
Description The link was discovered after executing javascript and rendering the page
Field type dimension
Data type bool
keyword
Field label Keyword
Description The keyword your target ranks for
Field type dimension
Data type string.text.value
language
Field label Language (SERP)
Description The SERP language
Field type dimension
Data type string.text.value
languages
Field label Languages
Description The languages listed in the referring page metadata or detected by the crawler to appear in the HTML
Field type dimension
Data type string.text.value
last_seen
Field label Lost
Description The date we discovered that the link was lost
Field type dimension
Data type string.time.datetime
last_update
Field label Updated
Description The date when we last checked search engine results for a keyword
Field type dimension
Data type string.time.datetime
last_visited
Field label Last seen
Description The date we last verified a live link to your target page
Field type dimension
Data type string.time.datetime
limit
Field label Limit
Description The number of results to return, as set in the report configuration for this query
Field type dimension
Data type string.text.value
link_type
Field label Type
Description The kind of the backlink
Field type dimension
Data type string.text.value
lookback
Field label Lookback window
Field type dimension
Data type string.text.value
lost_reason
Field label Lost status
Description The reason the link was lost during the last crawl
Field type dimension
Data type string.text.value
mode
Field label Mode
Description The scope of the search based on the target, as entered in the report configuration for this query
Field type dimension
Data type string.text.value
name_source
Field label Referring domain name
Description The complete referring domain name, including subdomains
Field type dimension
Data type string.text.value
name_target
Field label Target domain name
Description The complete target domain name, including subdomains
Field type dimension
Data type string.text.value
noindex
Field label Noindex status
Description The referring page has the noindex meta attribute
Field type dimension
Data type bool
parent_topic
Field label Parent topic
Description Parent Topic determines if you can rank for your target keyword while targeting a more general topic on your page instead. To identify the Parent Topic, we take the #1 ranking page for your keyword and find the keyword responsible for sending the most traffic to that page
Field type dimension
Data type string.text.value
port_source
Field label Referring domain port
Description The network port of the referring page URL
Field type dimension
Data type string.text.value
port_target
Field label Target domain port
Description The network port of the target page URL
Field type dimension
Data type string.text.value
powered_by
Field label Platform
Description Web technologies used to build and serve the referring page content
Field type dimension
Data type string.text.value
protocol
Field label Protocol
Description The protocol of your target URL, as entered in the report configuration for this query
Field type dimension
Data type string.text.value
raw_url
Field label Raw URL
Description The ranking page URL in encoded format
Field type dimension
Data type string.text.url
redirect_code
Field label Redirect code
Description The HTTP status code of a referring page pointing to your target via a redirect
Field type dimension
Data type string.text.value
redirect_kind
Field label Redirect kind
Description The HTTP status codes returned by the target redirecting URL or redirect chain
Field type dimension
Data type string.text.value
root_name_source
Field label Referring domain root
Description The root domain name of the referring domain, not including subdomains
Field type dimension
Data type string.text.value
root_name_target
Field label Target domain root
Description The root domain name of the target domain, not including subdomains
Field type dimension
Data type string.text.value
serp_features
Field label SERP feature items
Description The SERP features that appear in search results for a keyword
Field type dimension
Data type string.text.value
serp_last_update
Field label SERP last update
Description The date when we last checked search engine results for a keyword
Field type dimension
Data type string.time.datetime
snippet_left
Field label Left context
Description The snippet of text appearing just before the link
Field type dimension
Data type string.text.value
snippet_right
Field label Right context
Description The snippet of text appearing just after the link
Field type dimension
Data type string.text.value
source_page_author
Field label Referring page author
Description The author of the referring page
Field type dimension
Data type string.text.value
target_url
Field label Target URL (input)
Description Target URL
Field type dimension
Data type string.text.url
title
Field label Referring page
Description The html title of the referring page
Field type dimension
Data type string.text.value
tld_class_source
Field label TLD class of referring domain
Description The top level domain class of the referring domain
Field type dimension
Data type string.text.value
tld_class_target
Field label TLD class of target domain
Description The top level domain class of the target domain
Field type dimension
Data type string.text.value
top_keyword
Field label Top keywords
Description The keyword that brings the most organic traffic to a page
Field type dimension
Data type string.text.value
top_keyword_best_position_kind
Field label Top keyword best position kind
Description The kind of the top position: organic, paid or a SERP feature
Field type dimension
Data type string.text.value
top_keyword_best_position_title
Field label Top keyword best position title
Description The title displayed for the page in its top keyword's SERP
Field type dimension
Data type string.text.value
top_keyword_country
Field label Top keyword country
Description The country in which a page ranks for its top keyword
Field type dimension
Data type string.geo.country
url
Field label URL
Description The ranking page URL
Field type dimension
Data type string.text.url
url_from
Field label Referring page URL
Description The URL of the page containing a link to your target
Field type dimension
Data type string.text.url
url_from_plain
Field label Plain referring URL
Description The referring page URL optimized for use as a filter
Field type dimension
Data type string.text.url
url_redirect
Field label Redirect URL(s)
Description The target redirecting URL or redirect chain
Field type dimension
Data type string.text.url
url_to
Field label Target URL
Description The URL the backlink points to
Field type dimension
Data type string.text.url
url_to_plain
Field label Plain target URL
Description The target page URL optimized for use as a filter
Field type dimension
Data type string.text.url
ads_count
Field label Ads count
Description The number of unique ads with a page
Field type metric
Data type int.number.value
ahrefs_rank
Field label Ahrefs rank
Description The strength of your target's backlink profile compared to the other websites in our database, with rank #1 being the strongest
Field type metric
Data type int.number.value
ahrefs_rank_source
Field label Ahrefs rank (AR)
Description The strength of the referring domain's backlink profile compared to the other websites in our database, with rank #1 being the strongest
Field type metric
Data type int.number.value
ahrefs_rank_target
Field label Target domain rank
Description The strength of the target domain's backlink profile compared to the other websites in our database, with rank #1 being the strongest
Field type metric
Data type int.number.value
all_time
Field label Backlinks all time
Description The total number of links from other websites pointing to your target for all time
Field type metric
Data type int.number.value
all_time_refdomains
Field label Referring domains all time
Description The total number of unique domains linking to your target for all time
Field type metric
Data type int.number.value
best_position
Field label Position
Description The top position your target ranks for in the organic search results for a keyword
Field type metric
Data type int.number.value
class_c
Field label Class C
Description The number of unique class_c subnets linking to the referring page
Field type metric
Data type int.number.value
Aggregation Non-aggregatable metric
cpc
Field label CPC
Description Cost Per Click shows the average price that advertisers pay for each ad click in paid search results for a keyword, in cents
Field type metric
Data type float.number.ratio
dofollow_linked_domains
Field label Dofollow linked domains
Description The number of unique root domains with dofollow links linked from the referring domain
Field type metric
Data type int.number.value
dofollow_refdomains
Field label Dofollow ref. domains
Description The number of unique domains with dofollow links to the referring domain
Field type metric
Data type int.number.value
domain_rating
Field label Domain rating (DR)
Description The strength of a domain's backlink profile compared to the others in our database on a 100-point scale
Field type metric
Data type float.number.value
domain_rating_source
Field label Domain rating (DR)
Description The strength of the referring domain's backlink profile compared to the others in our database on a 100-point scale
Field type metric
Data type float.number.value
domain_rating_target
Field label Target domain rating
Description The strength of the referring domain's backlink profile compared to the others in our database on a 100-point scale
Field type metric
Data type float.number.value
keyword_difficulty
Field label Keyword difficulty (KD)
Description An estimation of how hard it is to rank in the top 10 organic search results for a keyword on a 100-point scale
Field type metric
Data type int.number.value
link_group_count
Field label Link group count
Description The number of backlinks that were grouped together based on the aggregation parameter. This field cannot be used with aggregation 'all'
Field type metric
Data type int.number.value
linked_domains_source_domain
Field label Linked domains in referring domain
Description The number of unique root domains linked from the referring domain
Field type metric
Data type int.number.value
linked_domains_source_page
Field label Linked domains
Description The number of unique root domains linked from the referring page
Field type metric
Data type int.number.value
linked_domains_target_domain
Field label Linked domains in target domain
Description The number of unique root domains linked from the target domain
Field type metric
Data type int.number.value
links_external
Field label External links
Description The number of external links from the referring page
Field type metric
Data type int.number.value
links_internal
Field label Internal links
Description The number of internal links from the referring page
Field type metric
Data type int.number.value
links_to_target
Field label Links to target
Description The number of backlinks from the referring domain to your target
Field type metric
Data type int.number.value
live
Field label Backlinks count
Description The total number of links from other websites pointing to your target
Field type metric
Data type int.number.value
live_refdomains
Field label Referring domains
Description The total number of unique domains linking to your target
Field type metric
Data type int.number.value
org_cost
Field label Organic cost
Description The estimated value of your target's monthly organic search traffic
Field type metric
Data type float.currency.value
org_keywords
Field label Organic keywords
Description The total number of keywords that your target ranks for in the top 100 organic search results
Field type metric
Data type int.number.value
org_keywords_1_3
Field label Organic keywords top 3
Description The total number of keywords that your target ranks for in the top 3 organic search results
Field type metric
Data type int.number.value
org_traffic
Field label Organic traffic
Description The estimated number of monthly visitors that your target gets from organic search
Field type metric
Data type int.number.value
page_size
Field label Page size
Description The size in bytes of the referring page content
Field type metric
Data type int.number.value
paid_cost
Field label Paid cost
Description The estimated cost of your target's monthly paid search traffic
Field type metric
Data type float.currency.value
paid_keywords
Field label Paid keywords
Description The total number of keywords that your target ranks for in paid search results
Field type metric
Data type int.number.value
paid_pages
Field label Paid pages
Description The total number of pages from a target ranking in paid search results
Field type metric
Data type int.number.value
paid_traffic
Field label Paid traffic
Description The estimated number of monthly visitors that your target gets from paid search
Field type metric
Data type int.number.value
positions
Field label Keywords
Description The number of keywords that the referring page ranks for in the top 100 positions
Field type metric
Data type int.number.value
refdomains_source
Field label Referring domains
Description The number of unique referring domains linking to the referring page
Field type metric
Data type int.number.value
refdomains_source_domain
Field label Number of referring domains
Description The number of unique referring domains linking to the referring domain
Field type metric
Data type int.number.value
refdomains_target_domain
Field label Number of referencing domains
Description The number of unique referring domains linking to the target domain
Field type metric
Data type int.number.value
serp_features_count
Field label SERP features (SF)
Description The number of SERP features that appear in search results for a keyword
Field type metric
Data type int.number.value
serp_target_main_positions_count
Field label SERP target main positions count
Description The number of target URLs ranking for a keyword excluding positions in Sitelinks, Top stories, Image packs, and Tweets
Field type metric
Data type int.number.value
serp_target_positions_count
Field label SERP target positions count
Description The number of target URLs ranking for a keyword
Field type metric
Data type int.number.value
sum_paid_traffic
Field label Paid traffic
Description An estimation of the number of monthly visits that your target gets from paid search for a keyword
Field type metric
Data type int.number.value
sum_traffic
Field label Organic traffic
Description An estimation of the number of monthly visitors that your target gets from organic search for a keyword
Field type metric
Data type int.number.value
traffic
Field label Page traffic
Description The referring page's estimated monthly organic traffic from search
Field type metric
Data type int.number.value
traffic_domain
Field label Domain traffic
Description The referring domain's estimated monthly organic traffic from search
Field type metric
Data type int.number.value
url_rating
Field label URL rating (UR)
Description The strength of your target page's backlink profile compared to the other websites in our database on a 100-point logarithmic scale
Field type metric
Data type float.number.value
url_rating_source
Field label URL rating (UR)
Description The strength of the referring page's backlink profile compared to the others in our database on a 100-point scale
Field type metric
Data type float.number.value
volume
Field label Volume
Description An estimation of the number of searches for a keyword over the latest month
Field type metric
Data type int.number.value
words
Field label Words
Description The number of words in a keyword
Field type metric
Data type int.number.value
keywords
Field label Keywords
Description The total number of keywords that your target ranks for in the top 100 organic search results
Field type metric
Data type int.number.value
top_keyword_best_position
Field label Top keyword best position
Description The ranking position that a page holds for its top keyword
Field type metric
Data type int.number.value
top_keyword_volume
Field label Top keyword volume
Description An estimation of the average monthly number of searches for the top keyword over the latest month or over the latest known 12 months of data depending on the "volume_mode" parameter
Field type metric
Data type int.number.value
value
Field label Value
Description The estimated value of a page's monthly organic search traffic, in cents
Field type metric
Data type int.currency.value
difficulty
Field label Difficulty
Description An estimation of how hard it is to rank in the top 10 organic search results for a keyword on a 100-point scale
Field type metric
Data type int.number.value
global_volume
Field label Global volume
Description How many times per month, on average, people search for the target keyword across all countries in our database
Field type metric
Data type int.number.value
cps
Field label CPS
Description Clicks Per Search (or CPS) is the ratio of Clicks to Keyword Search volume. It shows how many different search results get clicked, on average, when people search for the target keyword in a given country
Field type metric
Data type float.number.ratio
searches_pct_clicks_paid_only
Field label Searches pct clicks paid only
Description The average monthly percentage of people who clicked only on paid results while searching for the target keyword
Field type metric
Data type float.number.value
clicks
Field label Clicks
Description The average monthly number of clicks on the search results that people make while searching for the target keyword
Field type metric
Data type int.number.value
searches_pct_clicks_organic_only
Field label Searches pct clicks organic only
Description The average monthly percentage of people who clicked only on organic results while searching for the target keyword
Field type metric
Data type float.number.value
traffic_potential
Field label Traffic potential
Description The sum of organic traffic that the #1 ranking page for your target keyword receives from all the keywords that it ranks for
Field type metric
Data type int.number.value
searches_pct_clicks_organic_and_paid
Field label Searches pct clicks organic and paid
Description The average monthly percentage of people who clicked on both organic and paid results while searching for the target keyword
Field type metric
Data type float.number.value
parent_volume
Field label Parent volume
Description The search volume of the parent topic
Field type metric
Data type int.number.value

DATASOURCE

dataSourceName
Field label Data source
Description The name of the source for this data, as listed on supermetrics.com/docs
Field type dimension
Data type string.text.value
Destinations API, Data warehouse
system_metadata.data_source_logins
Field label Data source logins
Description The data source login accounts that were used to authenticate against the data source
Field type dimension
Data type string.text.json
system_metadata.data_source_login_owners
Field label Data source login owners
Description The Supermetrics users that created the data source login connections
Field type dimension
Data type string.text.json

QUERY

system_metadata.query_date_range_start
Field label Start date
Description The start date of the requested query
Field type dimension
Data type string.time.date
system_metadata.query_date_range_end
Field label End date
Description The end date of the requested query
Field type dimension
Data type string.time.date
system_metadata.query_timezone
Field label Timezone
Description The timezone that is supplied to the query
Field type dimension
Data type string.time.timezone
system_metadata.query_filters
Field label Filters
Description All filters used in the query
Field type dimension
Data type string.text.json
system_metadata.query_date_start
Field label Start
Description When the query was started
Field type dimension
Data type string.time.datetime
system_metadata.query_date_end
Field label End
Description When the query completed
Field type dimension
Data type string.time.datetime
system_metadata.query_duration
Field label Duration
Description The duration in seconds of the query
Field type dimension
Data type int.duration.seconds
system_metadata.query_accounts
Field label Accounts
Description A list of accounts of which the data was pulled from
Field type dimension
Data type string.text.json

TIME

today
Field label Today
Description Today's date, e.g. 2017-01-31
Field type dimension
Data type string.time.date
Destinations API, Data warehouse