- Link Authority: 67/100 (very strong, high confidence).
- Web graph rank: #446 of 134,979,706 domains, the top 0.001% of all domains.
- 128,964 linking domains counted in MrKeyword data.
- 98 hostnames under wired.com in the web graph.
- 17th of 44 news and magazines on MrKeyword's list.
What is wired.com's domain authority?
wired.com has a MrKeyword Link Authority of 67/100, a very strong score. The score comes from where wired.com sits in MrKeyword's web graph (August–October 2026): it is #446 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 wired.com?
128,964 different domains link to wired.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 98 hostnames under wired.com (subdomains such as www or blog count separately).
To see individual linking websites and anchor text, open the free backlink checker for wired.com.
Which strong websites link to wired.com?
The strongest linking domain MrKeyword's web graph shows for wired.com is googleapis.com, with a Link Authority of 100. The table lists the 10 strongest by their own score.
Strongest domains linking to wired.com
| Linking domain | Link Authority | Web graph rank |
|---|---|---|
| googleapis.com | 100 | #1 |
| godaddy.com | 87 | #11 |
| linkedin.com | 87 | #12 |
| github.com | 86 | #15 |
| wordpress.org | 85 | #16 |
| apple.com | 84 | #20 |
| shopify.com | 83 | #24 |
| microsoft.com | 82 | #28 |
| wikipedia.org | 81 | #36 |
| adobe.com | 80 | #41 |
9 of the 10 strongest linking domains have a profile on MrKeyword's list too (godaddy.com, linkedin.com, github.com, wordpress.org, apple.com, shopify.com, microsoft.com, wikipedia.org, adobe.com). None of them is in wired.com's own group, news and magazines.
How does wired.com compare with similar websites?
wired.com is 17th of 44 news and magazines on MrKeyword's list by Link Authority, with 2 neighbours above it in the table below. The median Link Authority of those 44 news and magazines is 66, so wired.com is 1 point above it.
wired.com and its nearest peers
| Website | Link Authority | Web graph rank | Linking domains |
|---|---|---|---|
| cnbc.com | 68 | #410 | 188,305 |
| npr.org | 68 | #415 | 197,444 |
| wired.com | 67 | #446 | 128,964 |
| theverge.com | 67 | #466 | 103,226 |
| usatoday.com | 67 | #471 | 155,016 |
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 67 mean?
A Link Authority of 67 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, wired.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 wired.com's data come from?
Every number on wired.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.