What’s new in rating.so

Domain Rating (DR) is a 0–100 score that estimates how strong a website’s backlink profile is. The problem: a site can have a high DR while the traffic and links behind it don’t hold up — a handful of referring domains, links from a repetitive network, or visits far lower than a score that high would normally bring in.

RatingDR is our own re-check of that same DR number. We look at the traffic, referring domains, and link quality actually backing it up, and recalculate a second 0–100 score from that evidence. If the evidence is thin, RatingDR comes in lower than DR — we call that overrated. If a site is quietly outperforming its DR, RatingDR comes in higher — underrated. You can see that gap for real sites on the Most Overrated and Most Underrated boards.

Think of DR as the headline number and RatingDR as a second opinion on it. Use DR when you want the standard, widely-known score; check RatingDR when you want to know whether that score is actually backed by real evidence.

The Founders Leaderboard ranks people, not just websites — by the combined Domain Rating of the sites they actually own. It’s not pulled from a bio or a claim you type in; a domain only counts once you’ve proven you own it.

Once you’ve verified a domain, it becomes part of your public founder profile: your handle, a rank badge, cards for each verified project, and a one-click button to share your rank on X. It turns the work of verifying ownership into something you can actually show off.

Go to your dashboard, claim your domains, and verify them — you’re given a handle automatically when you sign up — and your projects start showing up wherever people are browsing the leaderboard.

Most of rating.so is about looking up one domain at a time. Stats is the opposite view — it shows what the whole index looks like today, across every site we track. Simple KPI cards up top show the total number of websites, how many are verified, the average DR, the average RatingDR, and how much traffic the index adds up to.

Below that, a growth chart tracks all of those numbers over time, with toggles so you can turn series on and off to compare them. Two scatter charts help you spot patterns at a glance: one plots RatingDR and DR against traffic, the other plots DR against RatingDR, so you can see at a glance which sites hold up under scrutiny and which look overrated.

Open Stats when you want to understand the market as a whole, not just check one domain’s history.

A leaderboard of every site on the internet is interesting, but hard to use — you’re competing with everyone, in every industry. Category boards fix that: they group tracked domains into niches like AI, SaaS, or SEO tools, so you can see how you stack up against sites actually similar to yours.

Any domain can be tagged with up to three categories. Once tagged, it shows up on that niche’s public leaderboard, which anyone can browse from the categories hub — and those pages are linked to from reports and founder profiles, so people find them naturally while browsing.