URL metrics

Analyze a URL with Ahrefs page-level and domain-level SEO metrics: backlinks, referring domains, traffic estimates, and keyword counts.

← All SEO endpoints · Capability overview

GET/v1/seo/url-metrics

https://api.vee3.io/v1/seo/url-metrics

10 tokens

Analyze a URL with Ahrefs page-level and domain-level SEO metrics: backlinks, referring domains, traffic estimates, and keyword counts.

Authorization

Send your API key in the Authorization header:

Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY

MCP

The same capability is available as an MCP tool on Vee3 hosted MCP.

Tool name

get_seo_url_metrics

Parameters1 field

urlstringRequired

Public page URL to analyze.

max length 2048

Response10 fields

pageobject

4 fields

Metrics for the requested page URL.

backlinksinteger

Backlinks pointing to the page.

refDomainsinteger

Referring domains for the page.

trafficnumber

Estimated organic traffic for the page.

urlRatinginteger

URL rating score for the page.

domainobject

4 fields

Metrics for the parent domain.

domainRatinginteger

Domain authority score from 0 to 100.

backlinksinteger

Total backlinks for the domain.

refDomainsinteger

Referring domains for the domain.

trafficnumber

Estimated organic traffic for the domain.

HTTP errors: unauthorized, validation_error, insufficient_tokens, payment_required, seo_not_configured, seo_upstream_error

Example request

Python

import requests

url = "https://api.vee3.io/v1/seo/url-metrics"
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
}
params = {
    "url": "https://example.com"
}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers, params=params)
response.raise_for_status()
data = response.json()
print(data)

Example responses1 example

200Sample page and domain metrics.

example_homepage_metrics.json

{
  "page": {
    "backlinks": 2090614,
    "refDomains": 55636,
    "traffic": 561615.9,
    "trafficValue": 199094.48,
    "organicKeywords": 479,
    "urlRating": 68,
    "numberOfWordsOnPage": 50
  },
  "domain": {
    "domainRating": 94,
    "ahrefsRank": 59,
    "domainRank": 59,
    "backlinks": 685193312,
    "refDomains": 917869,
    "traffic": 31762840,
    "trafficValue": 9057845,
    "organicKeywords": 4243076
  }
}