<b>Moz DA vs Ahrefs DR: stop conflating them</b>

<b>Moz DA vs Ahrefs DR: stop conflating them</b>
I pulled both scores for 20 real domains. People treat these as the same metric. They aren't.

<b>Moz Domain Authority</b>
➕ The lingua franca of link sellers and outreach — everyone quotes it
➖ It's a predictive score that wobbles on index updates; a domain can drop 8 points overnight with no real change

<b>Ahrefs Domain Rating</b>
➕ Purely link-based and far more stable month to month
➕ Better correlates with actual ranking ability in my tests
➖ Says nothing about traffic or relevance — high DR spam exists

<b>Best for:</b> Quote DA when negotiating with people who only know DA. Trust DR for your own internal judgment.

<b>Price-vs-value:</b> Moz's free DA checker covers the negotiation use-case at $0.

Pick this for honest link-quality reads: Ahrefs DR.
Skip paying for Moz just to see DA — the free bar/checker is enough; never report either as "authority" to a client without context.