At 41 DA, judge the placement on the page and the neighbours, not on the score.
Also expect strict link limits, usually one, and frequent nofollow rules on institutional sites. A 41 DA educational page with 4.3k monthly visits is worth having in your profile for plausibility and citation, and you should not expect it to shift a competitive keyword on its own.
Two things the metrics cannot tell you, so we say them plainly: whether the host will still accept a contribution article this month, and whether the section your piece lands in is crawled weekly or monthly. Everything else on this page — 41 DA, 32 PA, 42 DR, 4,337 visits, $40, do-follow — is measured, dated September 2026, and available to you before you commit.
Educational publications keep their pages for years, which is the main reason to place here: a genuinely useful admissions or study guide is consulted on the same dates every academic year, so a link inside it keeps being crawled long after a news article would have decayed. It also means the bar is set by the site's own reference-style content, and a thin promotional contribution stands out badly.
Our observation on this host is do-follow outbound links in editorial content. That is the attribute, not the value: the 41 DA and 4.3k monthly visits are what the attribute is attached to.