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Documentation - refdomains_new_lost_counters
Contains new and lost domains totals.
Each request to refdomains_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 when the Ahrefs crawler was able to visit new or lost backlinks from the referring domain. |
type | string | + | − | Indicates whether the backlinks from the referring domain are new or lost. |
refdomain | string | + | − | Referring domain that contains at least one link to the target. |
new | int | − | + | Total number of new referring domain. |
lost | int | − | + | Total number of lost referring domain. |
new_total | int | − | + | Total number of new referring domain when ignoring where filter. |
lost_total | int | − | + | Total number of lost referring domain when ignoring where filter. |
Examples
Request
https://apiv2.ahrefs.com?from=refdomains_new_lost_counters&target=ahrefs.com&mode=domain&limit=3&where=type%3A%22lost%22&having=date%3C%3D%222013-11-24%22&order_by=date%3Adesc&output=json
Response
{ "counts":[ { "date":"2013-11-24", "new":0, "lost":19, "new_total":28, "lost_total":19 }, { "date":"2013-11-23", "new":0, "lost":28, "new_total":28, "lost_total":28 }, { "date":"2013-11-22", "new":0, "lost":30, "new_total":36, "lost_total":30 } ] }