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britannica.com domain authority and backlinks

britannica.com has a MrKeyword Link Authority of 65 out of 100, which places it far ahead of almost every other website. MrKeyword counts 149,075 domains linking to it, and ranks it #734 of 134,979,706 domains (the top 0.001%). Source: MrKeyword's web graph (August–October 2026).

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  • Link Authority: 65/100 (very strong, high confidence).
  • Web graph rank: #734 of 134,979,706 domains, the top 0.001% of all domains.
  • 149,075 linking domains counted in MrKeyword data.
  • 97 hostnames under britannica.com in the web graph.
  • 18th of 31 reference, research and education on MrKeyword's list.

What is britannica.com's domain authority?

britannica.com has a MrKeyword Link Authority of 65/100, a very strong score. The score comes from where britannica.com sits in MrKeyword's web graph (August–October 2026): it is #734 of 134,979,706 domains by PageRank, and Link Authority places that position on a 0–100 log curve, so the strongest domain scores 100.

This is MrKeyword's own metric, not Moz DA or Ahrefs DR (how the domain authority scores differ); how Link Authority is calculated gives both formulas.

How many websites link to britannica.com?

149,075 different domains link to britannica.com in MrKeyword's data, counting each linking website once however many links it has. That is the number SEO tools call referring domains. The web graph also lists 97 hostnames under britannica.com (subdomains such as www or blog count separately).

To see individual linking websites and anchor text, open the free backlink checker for britannica.com.

Which strong websites link to britannica.com?

The strongest linking domain MrKeyword's web graph shows for britannica.com is googleapis.com, with a Link Authority of 100. The table lists the 10 strongest by their own score.

Strongest domains linking to britannica.com

Linking domainLink AuthorityWeb graph rank
googleapis.com100#1
godaddy.com87#11
github.com86#15
wordpress.org85#16
shopify.com83#24
microsoft.com82#28
wikipedia.org81#36
adobe.com80#41
yandex.ru80#43
amazon.com79#48
Domains from MrKeyword's web graph (August–October 2026) with at least one link to britannica.com, ordered by their own Link Authority.

9 of the 10 strongest linking domains have a profile on MrKeyword's list too (godaddy.com, github.com, wordpress.org, shopify.com, microsoft.com, wikipedia.org, adobe.com, yandex.ru, amazon.com). 1 of them is in britannica.com's own group, reference, research and education.

How does britannica.com compare with similar websites?

britannica.com is 18th of 31 reference, research and education on MrKeyword's list by Link Authority, with 2 neighbours above it in the table below. The median Link Authority of those 31 reference, research and education is 66, so britannica.com is 1 point below it.

britannica.com and its nearest peers

WebsiteLink AuthorityWeb graph rankLinking domains
ted.com66#629133,244
goodreads.com65#642159,873
britannica.com65#734149,075
mayoclinic.org64#807162,888
healthline.com64#821158,576

See every profiled site on the domain authority list of popular websites, or compare your own site with any of these in the free domain authority checker.

What does a Link Authority of 65 mean?

A Link Authority of 65 is very strong: far ahead of almost every other website. Domains at this level are linked from a very wide spread of other sites; gaining more points usually takes links from other very strong domains. In plain numbers, britannica.com is in the top 0.001% of the 134,979,706 domains in the web graph.

To raise your own site's score, read how to increase domain authority; for the domains at the very top, see the most-linked websites of 2026. The authority list explains why the 0–100 scale is logarithmic.

Where does britannica.com's data come from?

Every number on britannica.com's profile is read from MrKeyword's web graph (August–October 2026). This version uses data imported on 31 October 2026. How MrKeyword collects and labels this data.

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