- Link Authority: 75/100 (very strong, high confidence).
- Web graph rank: #114 of 134,979,706 domains, the top 0.001% of all domains.
- 439,932 linking domains counted in MrKeyword data.
- 99,454 hostnames under medium.com in the web graph.
- 8th of 16 website builders, hosting and blogs on MrKeyword's list.
What is medium.com's domain authority?
medium.com has a MrKeyword Link Authority of 75/100, a very strong score. The score comes from where medium.com sits in MrKeyword's web graph (August–October 2026): it is #114 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 medium.com?
439,932 different domains link to medium.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 99,454 hostnames under medium.com (subdomains such as www or blog count separately).
To see individual linking websites and anchor text, open the free backlink checker for medium.com.
Which strong websites link to medium.com?
The strongest linking domain MrKeyword's web graph shows for medium.com is googleapis.com, with a Link Authority of 100. The table lists the 10 strongest by their own score.
Strongest domains linking to medium.com
| Linking domain | Link Authority | Web graph rank |
|---|---|---|
| googleapis.com | 100 | #1 |
| youtube.com | 89 | #8 |
| godaddy.com | 87 | #11 |
| linkedin.com | 87 | #12 |
| github.com | 86 | #15 |
| wordpress.org | 85 | #16 |
| apple.com | 84 | #20 |
| x.com | 83 | #22 |
| pinterest.com | 83 | #23 |
| shopify.com | 83 | #24 |
9 of the 10 strongest linking domains have a profile on MrKeyword's list too (youtube.com, godaddy.com, linkedin.com, github.com, wordpress.org, apple.com, x.com, pinterest.com, shopify.com). 2 of them are in medium.com's own group, website builders, hosting and blogs.
How does medium.com compare with similar websites?
medium.com is 8th of 16 website builders, hosting and blogs on MrKeyword's list by Link Authority, with 2 neighbours above it in the table below. The median Link Authority of those 16 website builders, hosting and blogs is 75, so medium.com is exactly at the median.
medium.com and its nearest peers
| Website | Link Authority | Web graph rank | Linking domains |
|---|---|---|---|
| namecheap.com | 75 | #110 | 211,130 |
| wix.com | 75 | #112 | 570,161 |
| medium.com | 75 | #114 | 439,932 |
| weebly.com | 75 | #118 | 456,220 |
| tumblr.com | 74 | #137 | 685,618 |
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 75 mean?
A Link Authority of 75 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, medium.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 medium.com's data come from?
Every number on medium.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.