A free alternative to Ahrefs
An SEO platform best known for its backlink index, with a site crawler, keyword research, and rank tracking alongside it.
What Ahrefs does well
- Backlink data among the best available anywhere — genuinely difficult to replicate.
- A capable site crawler for finding technical SEO issues at scale.
- Ahrefs Webmaster Tools offers a free tier for sites you verify ownership of, which is worth knowing before paying for anything.
Where it stops
- The lens is SEO. Whether your page persuades a visitor sits outside that scope.
- A large platform aimed at practitioners — more than most site owners need for a health check.
What MyWebsiteScore adds
- A scored report across seven dimensions, not just search.
- Findings ranked by business impact and written for non-specialists.
- Weekly monitoring with an email when your score drops.
Which should you use?
For backlink analysis and competitive research, Ahrefs is in a different category to us. And if you own the site, their free Webmaster Tools may already cover your crawling needs — worth checking before you pay anyone, including us.