Backlinks overview

Backlinks → Overview summarizes everything Surnex knows about who links to your domain. The subtitle names the domain being profiled.

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Stat cards

Read these as a set rather than individually. Total Backlinks far exceeding Referring Domains means a few sites link to you many times — a hundred thousand links from forty domains is a sitewide footer link, not forty thousand endorsements. Referring IPs is the check on that. When referring domains greatly outnumber referring IPs, many of those “different” sites share hosting, which often means they’re the same operator. A healthy profile has all three growing together.

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Trend chart

Backlinks and referring domains plotted over time, built from each scheduled snapshot. It’s the clearest read on whether your profile is actually growing. A vertical cliff usually isn’t a mass unlinking — it’s more often a large site dropping out of the index or a sitewide link being removed. Cross-check against New and lost backlinks before treating a drop as a crisis.

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Distribution charts

Charts render only when there’s data for them: The by-domains and by-backlinks pairs are worth comparing. If .com is 60% of your referring domains but 95% of your backlinks, a small number of .com sites are generating most of your link volume. Semantic Locations is the quality signal most people skip. A link in body content is an editorial endorsement; a footer or sidebar link is usually sitewide boilerplate, and search engines weigh it accordingly.

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Summary table

Beneath the charts, a table of exact figures: Broken Backlinks is the actionable row. Each one is authority someone already granted you that’s currently going nowhere — redirect the dead URL and you recover it without earning anything new. Referring Subnets is a stronger diversity signal than referring IPs, since a single host can span many IPs on one subnet.

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Running an analysis

The header button reads Run Analysis the first time and Refresh afterwards. While a run is in progress it shows Analyzing… and is disabled. A completed run shows when it finished. A failed run puts a red banner at the top of the page with the error; click Refresh to retry.

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Schedule

Click Settings to open the Backlink Refresh Schedule panel: Frequency (Every day / Every 3 days / Once a week), a Refresh Hour, and a Timezone. Backlink snapshots default to daily at 00:00 UTC, like every other schedule on a new project. Link profiles change slowly, so this is usually worth lowering to weekly — each refresh consumes backlink-lookup quota. The Timezone is applied, and cadences are real intervals measured from the last run: “once a week” is seven days later, not a fixed weekday. See How data collection works.

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Export

Export downloads your backlink data. It appears once an analysis has completed.

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