Because the report is thousands of domains with an authority score. Nobody can assess that many, and the top entries are usually unreachable, so outreach happens from a different list.
Backlink gap compares who links to competitor pages on a cluster against who links to yours.
Comparison is per cluster and per page rather than per domain, and sources are grouped by kind — editorial, directory, community, partner — so achievable and aspirational are separated.
You rank fifth on a cluster where your content is better but the page above has eleven editorial links you lack. That reframes the work from rewriting to outreach.
It will not build, buy or broker links, and does not offer to. Growth analyses; anything selling links alongside analysis is selling the thing that gets sites penalised.
The clusters you track, the pages that rank for them, and the link profiles of both.
Third-party indexes, with the source and its date shown.
Not an invented one. It shows what those linking pages rank for.
Yes, with outreach state, though the outreach is yours.
Fourteen days, every module, no card. Or half an hour with someone who will run it on your own records and tell you where it does not help.