How long until this page ranks?
Most forecasting tools ask you to upload a spreadsheet of keyword difficulty. This one looks at who's actually on page one, how strong their pages are, and how far your domain is from the weakest of them.
Why the authority floor beats keyword difficulty
Most forecasting tools start from a difficulty score. The trouble is that difficulty is a single number standing in for a whole results page, and it hides the thing that decides whether you can compete: how strong the weakest site already ranking actually is.
Two keywords can carry the same difficulty score and behave completely differently. One has a small site holding position nine on almost no links. The other has nothing below a major publisher. Same score, opposite answer. We ran into this repeatedly while building this tool, which is why it reads the results page instead.
The second thing the results pages kept showing us: the individual pages ranking are often weak even when the domains are strong. URL Ratings in the low single digits, a handful of backlinks, sometimes none at all. The page isn't the wall. The domain is. That's why the advice this tool gives leans on internal links, which raise a page's own rating and cost nothing, before it suggests outreach.
How it works
Enter a domain and the keyword you want it to rank for. The tool looks up who is on page one, takes the domain rating of the weakest one, and compares it to yours. The gap between those two numbers drives both the estimate and the advice. Where live results aren't available it falls back to an estimate and says so on the page, so you always know which one you're reading.