Documentation - backlinks_new_lost_counters
Contains new and lost backlink totals.
Each request to backlinks_new_lost_counters costs 1 row.
Each result in the response costs 1 row.
Using 'where' costs 5 rows.
Using 'having' costs 5 rows.
• counts
Column | Type | Where | Having | Description |
---|---|---|---|---|
date | date | + | + | Date the backlink was tagged as New or Lost |
type | string | + | − | Indicates whether the backlink is New or Lost. |
ahrefs_rank | int | + | − | URL Rating of the referring page. |
domain_rating | int | + | − | Domain Rating of the referring domain. |
url_from | string | + | − | URL of the page where the backlink is found |
url_to | string | + | + | URL of the page the backlink is pointing to. |
links_internal | int | + | − | Number of internal links found in the referring page. |
links_external | int | + | − | Number of external links found in the referring page. |
encoding | string | + | − | Character encoding of the referring page, for example "utf8" or "iso-8859-1" (Latin-1). |
http_code | int | + | − | HTTP code that was last returned for the referring page. |
title | string | + | − | Title of the referring page. |
origin | string | + | − | Either "fresh", "drop", or "recrawl". |
first_seen | date | + | − | Least recent date when the Ahrefs crawler was able to visit the backlink. |
last_visited | date | + | − | Most recent date when the Ahrefs crawler was able to visit the backlink. |
prev_visited | date | + | − | Second to most recent date when the Ahrefs crawler was able to visit the backlink. |
original | boolean | + | − | Indicates whether the backlink was present on the referring page when the Ahrefs crawler first visited it. |
link_type | string | + | − | Either "href", "redirect", "frame", "form", "canonical", "rss", or "alternate". |
redirect | int | + | − | For redirected links, the Redirect Code (3XX), zero otherwise. |
nofollow | boolean | + | − | Indicates whether the backlink is NoFollow. |
alt | string | + | − | Alternative text of the image backlink, if exists. |
anchor | string | + | − | Anchor text of the backlink. |
text_pre | string | + | − | Snippet before the anchor text. |
text_post | string | + | − | Snippet after the anchor text. |
new | int | − | + | Total number of new backlinks found to this url. |
lost | int | − | + | Total number of backlinks removed to this url. |
new_total | int | − | + | Total number of new backlinks found to this url when ignoring where filter. |
lost_total | int | − | + | Total number of backlinks removed to this url when ignoring where filter. |
Examples
Request
Response
{ "counts":[ { "date":"2013-11-01", "url_to":"https://ahrefs.com/site-explorer/overview/subdomains/bitcoin.org", "new":37, "lost":0, "new_total":37, "lost_total":0 }, { "date":"2013-10-27", "url_to":"https://ahrefs.com/news/ahrefs-close-keywords-analysis", "new":21, "lost":0, "new_total":21, "lost_total":0 }, { "date":"2013-10-27", "url_to":"https://ahrefs.com/", "new":66, "lost":0, "new_total":66, "lost_total":0 } ] }