Documentation - metrics_extended
Contains additional metrics about the target, such as total number of referring domains, referring class C networks and referring IP addresses.
Each request to metrics_extended costs 1 row.
Each result in the response costs 1 row.
• metrics
Column | Type | Where | Having | Description |
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backlinks | int | − | − | Number of external backlinks found on the referring pages that link to the target. |
refpages | int | − | − | Number of external web pages containing at least one backlink that links to the target. |
pages | int | − | − | Number of unique pages visited by the Ahrefs crawler on the target. |
valid_pages | int | − | − | Number of unique pages with non 5xx HTTP code, visited by the Ahrefs crawler on the target. |
text | int | − | − | Number of backlinks that use anchor texts. |
image | int | − | − | Number of backlinks that use image as an anchor. |
nofollow | int | − | − | Number of NoFollow backlinks that link to the target. |
dofollow | int | − | − | Number of DoFollow backlinks that link to the target. |
redirect | int | − | − | Number of redirects found that forward to the target. |
canonical | int | − | − | Number of canonical backlinks that link to the target. |
alternate | int | − | − | Number of alternate backlinks that link to the target. |
gov | int | − | − | Number of backlinks of all types (including images and NoFollow) found on web pages on governmental domains that link to the target. |
edu | int | − | − | Number of backlinks of all types (including images and NoFollow) found on web pages on educational domains that link to the target. |
rss | int | − | − | Number of RSS external links from the target. |
html_pages | int | − | − | Number of HTML pages the target link has. |
links_internal | int | − | − | Number of internal links found in the target. |
links_external | int | − | − | Number of external links found in the target. |
refdomains | int | − | − | Number of domains containing at least one backlink that links to the target. |
refclass_c | int | − | − | Number of referring class C networks that link to the target. |
refips | int | − | − | Number of distinct IP addresses under a single network that link to the target. |
linked_root_domains | int | − | − | Number of internal or external domains that are linked from the target. |
Examples
Request
Response
{ "metrics":{ "backlinks":636, "refpages":518, "pages":1, "valid_pages":1, "text":501, "image":13, "nofollow":131, "dofollow":370, "redirect":135, "canonical":3, "alternate":2, "gov":0, "edu":0, "rss":1, "html_pages":0, "links_internal":0, "links_external":0, "refdomains":86, "refclass_c":68, "refips":69, "linked_root_domains":99 } }