- Link Authority: 85/100 (exceptional, high confidence).
- Web graph rank: #16 of 134,979,706 domains, the top 0.001% of all domains.
- 2,780,782 linking domains counted in MrKeyword data.
- 1,352 hostnames under wordpress.org in the web graph.
- 2nd of 38 open source and developer sites on MrKeyword's list.
What is wordpress.org's domain authority?
wordpress.org has a MrKeyword Link Authority of 85/100, an exceptional score. The score comes from where wordpress.org sits in MrKeyword's web graph (August–October 2026): it is #16 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 wordpress.org?
2,780,782 different domains link to wordpress.org 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 1,352 hostnames under wordpress.org (subdomains such as www or blog count separately).
To see individual linking websites and anchor text, open the free backlink checker for wordpress.org.
Which strong websites link to wordpress.org?
The strongest linking domain MrKeyword's web graph shows for wordpress.org is gmpg.org, with a Link Authority of 88. The table lists the 10 strongest by their own score.
Strongest domains linking to wordpress.org
| Linking domain | Link Authority | Web graph rank |
|---|---|---|
| gmpg.org | 88 | #9 |
| godaddy.com | 87 | #11 |
| github.com | 86 | #15 |
| x.com | 83 | #22 |
| shopify.com | 83 | #24 |
| vimeo.com | 82 | #27 |
| microsoft.com | 82 | #28 |
| goo.gl | 82 | #29 |
| wikipedia.org | 81 | #36 |
| tiktok.com | 81 | #37 |
8 of the 10 strongest linking domains have a profile on MrKeyword's list too (godaddy.com, github.com, x.com, shopify.com, vimeo.com, microsoft.com, wikipedia.org, tiktok.com). 1 of them is in wordpress.org's own group, open source and developer sites.
How does wordpress.org compare with similar websites?
wordpress.org is 2nd of 38 open source and developer sites on MrKeyword's list by Link Authority, with one neighbour above it in the table below. The median Link Authority of those 38 open source and developer sites is 67, so wordpress.org is 18 points above it.
wordpress.org and its nearest peers
| Website | Link Authority | Web graph rank | Linking domains |
|---|---|---|---|
| github.com | 86 | #15 | 792,509 |
| wordpress.org | 85 | #16 | 2,780,782 |
| mozilla.org | 78 | #62 | 847,719 |
| w3.org | 77 | #71 | 227,599 |
| github.io | 77 | #78 | 464,772 |
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 85 mean?
A Link Authority of 85 is exceptional: among the most-linked domains on the web. At this level the score moves only when a very large number of sites change how they link, so a point or two between releases is normal noise. In plain numbers, wordpress.org 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 wordpress.org's data come from?
Every number on wordpress.org'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.