About this page
This page shows every referring domain that links to theguardian.com, derived from the Common Crawl hyperlink graph (release Jan-Mar 2026). Each row in the dashboard above represents a unique linking domain. Paste theguardian.com or any competitor into the search box to see who links to them.
About theguardian.com: Latest news, sport, business, comment, analysis and reviews from the Guardian, the world's leading liberal voice
Quick stats
theguardian.com has approximately 322,201 referring domains in the Jan-Mar 2026 Common Crawl release.
Common questions
How many backlinks does theguardian.com have?
About 322,201 referring domains as of the Jan-Mar 2026 release. CrawlGraph counts unique linking domains, not raw URL-level backlinks - one referring domain may host many pages that link to theguardian.com.
What sites link to theguardian.com?
The full list is in the table above, sorted by number of hosts on the linking domain. You can also filter by TLD or export the full result set as CSV.
How fresh is this data?
This page reflects the Jan-Mar 2026 Common Crawl hyperlink-graph release. Common Crawl publishes a new graph every ~3 months; we re-index within a few days of each release.
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