SEOquake is one of the oldest and most widely installed browser extensions in search marketing, and for good reason. It overlays instant diagnostic data on any page or search results listing, which makes competitive research dramatically faster. But a question comes up constantly among new users: where is DA, the Domain Authority metric, inside SEOquake? People open the toolbar, scan the parameters panel, and cannot find it anywhere. The confusion is understandable, and the explanation reveals something useful about how third-party authority metrics actually work.

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The Short Answer: DA Is Not a SEOquake Metric

Domain Authority is a proprietary score created and calculated by Moz. It is available through Moz tools, the MozBar extension and the Moz API. SEOquake is built by Semrush, and it reports Semrush's own metrics rather than a competitor's. So if you are looking specifically for the Moz DA number inside SEOquake, you will not find it, because the two products belong to different vendors. Historically SEOquake did surface a variety of third-party parameters, including PageRank before Google retired public PageRank, and some legacy sources that no longer exist. Over time the panel consolidated around Semrush data plus a handful of still-available public signals.

What SEOquake Shows Instead

Open the SEOquake toolbar on any page and you will typically see Semrush Rank, which positions the domain against others by estimated organic visibility, along with SEMrush Links and SEMrush Linking Domains, which are the backlink counts and referring-domain counts from Semrush's index. You will also find the Alexa-era traffic slot in older builds, Google index counts, the domain age, the last-modified date, the presence of a robots.txt file and internal and external link counts for the current page. On a search engine results page, SEOquake can display these parameters beneath every listing, which is where the extension earns its reputation as a research accelerator.

Where to Look and How to Configure It

Click the SEOquake icon in your browser toolbar to open the panel. There you will see tabs for the page report, a diagnosis section covering on-page and technical checks, an internal and external links breakdown, and a keyword density view. To control which metrics appear on search results, open the extension preferences and find the parameters list. Each metric has a checkbox and can be ordered, so you can build a lean display showing only what you use. If your search results are not showing the overlay at all, confirm that SEO for SERP is enabled for the search engine you are using, and that the extension has permission to run on that domain. Signing into your Semrush account through the extension unlocks the fuller data set and higher request limits.

If You Specifically Need Domain Authority

Install the MozBar extension alongside SEOquake and you can view DA and Page Authority directly in your browser, including on search results pages. Both extensions can coexist, though running several data overlays simultaneously slows page rendering, so many practitioners enable only one at a time. Other vendors offer their own equivalents, such as Ahrefs' Domain Rating and Semrush's Authority Score, each calculated from a different crawl index with a different formula. That is precisely why the same website will score differently in every tool, and why comparing a DA figure to a DR figure is meaningless.

How to Interpret Authority Metrics Sensibly

Every one of these scores is a third-party estimate, not a signal Google uses. They are logarithmic, so moving from thirty to forty is far easier than moving from seventy to eighty, and they are relative, so a score is only meaningful compared with the direct competitors ranking for your target queries. Use authority metrics for triage: shortlisting link prospects, spotting unusually strong or weak competitors, and tracking your own trend over months rather than days. Never use them as a target in their own right. A site with a modest authority score and highly relevant, topically focused links regularly outranks a bloated domain with a bigger number and no topical alignment.

Metrics Worth More of Your Attention

Rather than obsessing over a single authority figure, examine the composition of the backlink profile: how many referring domains are genuinely relevant to your industry, how many are editorially placed, how diverse the anchor text is, and whether growth looks organic or purchased. Then look at the metrics that connect directly to business outcomes, including impressions and clicks in Search Console, rankings for commercially valuable queries, crawl and indexation health, Core Web Vitals and conversion rate from organic traffic. These tell you whether your digital marketing investment is compounding, which no toolbar number can do on its own.

Bringing It Together

DA is missing from SEOquake because it is a Moz metric inside a Semrush product, and no configuration change will surface it. Use SEOquake for its own strengths, fast on-page diagnostics, page-level link counts, keyword density and SERP-level parameter overlays, and add MozBar if Domain Authority is a number your workflow depends on. Then treat all of these scores as directional inputs rather than goals. If you want a partner who can read the full picture and convert it into rankings, traffic and leads, our SEO team is ready to help.