> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.surnex.io/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Backlinks overview > Your link profile at a glance — authority, volume, distribution, and quality signals. **Backlinks → Overview** summarizes everything Surnex knows about who links to your domain. The subtitle names the domain being profiled. ## Stat cards | Card | What it is | | --------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | | **Domain Rank** | Authority score for your domain. `N/A` before the first analysis | | **Total Backlinks** | Every individual link pointing at you | | **Referring Domains** | How many distinct domains those links come from | | **Referring IPs** | How many distinct IP addresses those domains sit on | 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. ## 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](/backlinks/new-lost) before treating a drop as a crisis. ## Distribution charts Charts render only when there's data for them: | Chart | Shows | | --------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------- | | **TLD Distribution (by Domains)** | Top 10 TLDs among your referring domains | | **TLD Distribution (by Backlinks)** | The same split, weighted by link count | | **Country Distribution (by Domains)** | Top 10 countries your referring domains sit in | | **Country Distribution (by Backlinks)** | The same, weighted by link count | | **Top Anchor Texts** | The 10 most common anchors | | **Link Types** | The kinds of links pointing at you | | **Platform Types** | The kinds of sites linking — CMS, forum, and so on | | **Link Attributes** | Attributes on the links, such as `nofollow` and `ugc` | | **Semantic Locations** | Where on the page the link sits — body, footer, sidebar | 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. ## Summary table Beneath the charts, a table of exact figures: | Row | Meaning | | ------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------- | | **Dofollow Backlinks** | Links that pass authority | | **Nofollow Backlinks** | Links marked not to pass authority | | **Spam Score** | How spammy the profile looks | | **Broken Backlinks** | Inbound links pointing at URLs that no longer resolve | | **Broken Pages** | Your pages that are linked to but broken | | **Referring Subnets** | Distinct network subnets among your referrers | | **Referring Pages** | Individual pages carrying a link to you | | **Crawled Pages** | Pages of yours seen during the crawl | | **Internal Links** / **External Links** | Link counts on your own site | | **First Seen** | When the profile was first observed | | **Server**, **CMS**, **Platform Type**, **IP Address**, **Country** | Technical details of your domain | **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. ## 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. ## 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](/projects/data-collection). ## Export **Export** downloads your backlink data. It appears once an analysis has completed. ## Related pages The domains behind the counts, ranked by authority. Every individual link. How others describe your pages. Who links to competitors but not to you.