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Ahrefs is an SEO software company known for its backlink index and keyword tools; it shows up on a website through the Ahrefs Web Analytics script, a cookie-free visitor counter, and the verification tag of Ahrefs Webmaster Tools.

Sites carrying Ahrefs tags are run by people who actively work on search visibility - publishers, affiliate sites, SaaS companies, e-commerce stores, SEO agencies and their clients. Verification alone may mean only a Webmaster Tools account; with the analytics script it signals an owner who uses SEO tooling regularly, often on a paid subscription, and treats organic traffic as a core channel.

A list of Ahrefs-connected websites is bought by SEO and content agencies, link-building and digital PR services, content writing and AI writing platforms, rank trackers and competing SEO suites, web hosting and performance vendors, and website marketplaces. New sites are owners who have just started an SEO programme and are choosing tools and partners; dropped sites may have cancelled their subscription or moved to another toolset, which interests cheaper alternatives.

Ahrefs is installed on 115,890 websites, which is 0.3% of all Analytics detections we record. Websites measured with Ahrefs are most often served from United States (41,137), Germany (11,669) and Canada (6,091), and .com, .org and .net are the most common domain endings.

115,890
websites using it
+115,890
started in the last 30 days
−9,314
stopped in the last 30 days
November 2, 2026
statistics updated

Websites using Ahrefs

Preview filters with coarse ranges. Exact ranks and registration dates are available in the dashboard when you download a list.

115,890 websites. Sign in to download the full list (free sample below, full lists from $69/mo)

25 days ago 13 websites used Ahrefs; today it is 115,890 (+891361.5%).

Top countries for Ahrefs

United States
41.1K
Germany
11.7K
Canada
6.1K
United Kingdom
3.5K
France
1.8K
Netherlands
1.7K
Russia
1.1K
Poland
724

Top TLDs

.com
61.8K
.org
4.8K
.net
4.2K
.co
3.6K
.ca
2.8K
.de
2.7K
.uk
2K
.info
2K

Sample of 15 websites using Ahrefs

best-ranked first; the full list has 115,890
DomainCountryMajestic rankNetAPI rankContactsFirst seen
tradingview.com US 965 132 phone 2026-10-09
haberler.com - 9,021 304 email phone 2026-10-12
protothema.gr DE 9,661 313 phone 2026-10-11
sondakika.com - 25,598 386 email phone 2026-10-08
doi.org - 70 867 email 2026-10-12
plesk.com - 135 937 2026-10-09
squarespace.com US 218 1,014 email 2026-10-25
narod.ru US 960 1,536 2026-10-19
outbrain.com DE 6,102 1,689 2026-10-09
redis.io - 800 1,702 2026-10-10
dreamhost.com - 878 1,722 phone 2026-10-09
elespanol.com GB 2,197 2,062 email 2026-10-09
macrumors.com - 1,234 2,165 email 2026-10-10
buffer.com - 1,226 2,233 2026-10-12
checkpoint.com US 1,436 2,337 phone 2026-10-12

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Questions about Ahrefs websites

How many websites use Ahrefs?

As of November 2, 2026, 115,890 websites load the Ahrefs script on their homepage. The number is recalculated every night from our own crawl of the web.

Who buys lists of websites using Ahrefs?

Vendors of analytics, A/B testing, consent and personalisation tools, agencies that sell conversion optimisation, and data products that plug into Ahrefs. A website that measures itself has a team that looks at numbers; one that just added Ahrefs is building that capability, one that dropped it has switched tools.

Where are Ahrefs websites hosted?

United States leads with 41,137 websites, followed by Germany (11,669) and Canada (6,091). The country is where the website is served from; sites on a hosted platform show the platform's country.

How do I find websites that just added Ahrefs?

The New tab on this page lists websites where our crawler saw Ahrefs for the first time in the last days, newest first; the Dropped tab lists the sites that removed it. Both download with a subscription and refresh every morning.

How do I get a list of websites using Ahrefs?

A free BetaScan account downloads a {sample_rows}-row sample. A subscription from $69 a month gives the full list of 115,890 domains, or a dataset with emails, phones, country, hosting and ranks, filtered by country, TLD, rank and registration date. See pricing.

How does BetaScan detect Ahrefs?

Our crawler fetches the homepage of every domain we track and matches the page and its response headers against the signatures of 7,636 technologies. A website counts as using Ahrefs when its latest crawl shows the signature; when the signature disappears, the site moves to the dropped list.

How can you tell a website is connected to Ahrefs?

Two markers appear in the page source: the Ahrefs Web Analytics script loaded from analytics.ahrefs.com with a data-key attribute holding the site's key, and a meta tag named ahrefs-site-verification used to prove ownership in Ahrefs Webmaster Tools. Either one is enough for our crawler to attribute the site to an Ahrefs user.

Which businesses use Ahrefs?

Anyone who treats organic search as a revenue channel: niche and affiliate publishers, bloggers, SaaS and e-commerce marketing teams, SEO and content agencies and their clients, and consultants. Company size ranges from one-person sites to marketing departments of mid-sized firms; what they share is an active interest in rankings, backlinks and content performance.

What can you sell to Ahrefs users?

SEO-adjacent services and software: link building and digital PR, content writing and editing, AI writing tools, rank tracking and site audit tools, technical SEO consulting, fast hosting and performance optimisation, conversion tools for organic traffic, and competing SEO suites. These owners already pay for SEO data and understand the value of organic traffic in money terms.