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Backlink value and traffic report for alistapart.com
In short: A new followed link from alistapart.com is worth about $254 to rankings by BV 2.9 (level B, Site Strength 65 of 100); BV is an estimate, not a price anyone charges. It gets about 60.6K visits a month, 18% from organic search, down 3.5% since Jul 2026. No link placed on it has been audited.
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Backlink value · what one new followed link from alistapart.com is worth to rankings
BV$254per link · level B · strength 65reading confidenceCouldn't read
Our reader could not open alistapart.com: it refused us or did not answer in time. Its BV takes the usual link type until a later reading gets in.
Thin evidence. No links checked, pages not yet read: estimated from authority and traffic, with the link type assumed.
$127 unrelated ×0.5$317 same topic ×1.25
- Direct58%
- Organic search18%
- Referrals13%
- Social6.1%
- AI assistants3.4%
- Other channels2.1%
Links to this site
Links other sites have made to alistapart.com, from outside link indexes: not the links placed on it that bklink audits.
Pages in Google: about 3,430
What Google shows for site:alistapart.com — the first 10 pages
Links placed here
No link placed on alistapart.com has been audited yet. An audit on bklink.uk checks each one — still there, followed or not, where it sits — and marks this report audited.
How it links out
alistapart.com did not let our reader in on 25 Oct 2026, so its link type is set by fixed rules until a later reading succeeds.
Tech stack
Page speed
Chrome users, 28 days to 23 Oct 2026: LCP 1.1 s · INP 32 ms · CLS 0.00 — passes Core Web Vitals.
Devices: 14% phone · 86% desktop — share of Chrome page loads, same 28 days.
Domain and hosting
- Domain registered
- 07 May 1998
- Registration expires
- 06 May 2027
- Record last changed
- 08 March 2024
- Server address
- 199.16.172.59
- Hosting network
- AUTOMATTIC
Similar sites
How to use this report
- Price check. BV puts one new followed link from alistapart.com at $254 (level B): $127 to an unrelated site (×0.5), $317 to a same-topic site (×1.25). A followed editorial link (level A) would be worth up to $507 before relevance. A quote far above $317 for a level B link pays for what BV does not measure.
- Qualification and risk. Its Site Strength is 65 / 100; the link it usually gives is level B — may be discounted (a guest, sponsored or listed link). The spam score of its links is 24 (0–100, the linking pages' average), not alistapart.com's own.
- Traffic reality check. Set any traffic claim beside the Sept 2026 estimate: 60.6K monthly visits, 18% from organic search (10.8K). Visits fell 3.5% from Jul 2026 to Sept 2026. Its top keyword by Visits (est.) is “write for us”, about 880 a month; the ad value beside it is the whole market's.
- AI assistant visits. 3.4% of its visits in Sept 2026 came from AI assistants' answers, about 2,059 (visits, not citations); ChatGPT sent the most in Sept 2026, 15% of them. The split moved a lot between months (ChatGPT from 11% in Jul 2026 to 100% in Aug 2026): read it as a snapshot, not a trend.
Quick answers about alistapart.com
What is a link from alistapart.com worth?
BV, mxverify's backlink value, is an estimate of what one new followed link from a site is worth to rankings: by BV 2.9, a new followed link from alistapart.com is worth about $254 (level B). Relevance moves it: $127 to an unrelated site, $317 to a same-topic site.
In short: a link from alistapart.com is worth about $254 to rankings, up to $317 on the same topic.
Source: mxverify BV 2.9 methodology
Is a link from alistapart.com worth placing?
That depends on the kind of link: by BV 2.9, a link from alistapart.com is worth $507 as an editorial citation (level A), $254 as a guest, sponsored or listed link (level B), $51 as a press-release, syndicated, profile or forum link (level C), $25 as a network link (level D), before relevance. A price far above $317 for a level B link pays for something BV does not measure, such as the site's own readers.
Source: mxverify BV 2.9 methodology
How does alistapart.com's BV compare with other sites?
At about $254 a link, alistapart.com is in the “$250 to $499” value band, with 146 of the 4,018 sites valued on mxverify. 30 sites are in a higher band.
In short: 30 of the 4,018 valued sites sit in a higher value band than alistapart.com.
Source: mxverify's own directory, counted at the last daily update
How much traffic does alistapart.com get?
alistapart.com gets about 60.6K visits a month (Sept 2026), by a modelled estimate of all its visitors, not analytics measured on the site. 18% of them (10.8K) come from organic search. Visits fell 3.5% from Jul 2026 to Sept 2026.
In short: alistapart.com draws about 60.6K visits a month, down 3.5% since Jul 2026.
Does alistapart.com pass Core Web Vitals?
Yes: real Chrome users see alistapart.com's largest content load in 1.1 s (LCP), and every vital reported for it is at Google's good level. The figures are from the Chrome UX Report (CC BY 4.0), the 75th percentile of real visits. Core Web Vitals describe how a page feels to its visitors; BV does not use them.
In short: alistapart.com passes Core Web Vitals on real-user data.
Source: Chrome UX Report, 28 days to 23 Oct 2026; web.dev: Web Vitals
How old is alistapart.com?
The domain alistapart.com was registered in 1998, 28 years ago.
Source: the public registration record; RFC 9083: RDAP JSON responses
How many sites link to alistapart.com?
23,676 websites link to alistapart.com, each counted once. 2,613 of them (11%) link with nofollow.
Has alistapart.com been audited?
No link placed on alistapart.com has been audited yet, so this report shows no rates for how its links behave. Its backlink value comes from site-level figures (its authority rating, traffic and our reading of its articles), not from audited placements.
In short: alistapart.com's report is valued, not audited.
How BV is worked out
A followed editorial link from alistapart.com would be worth up to $507 under BV 2.9, before relevance: its Site Strength is 65 out of 100. The link it usually gives is level B, worth about $254 — and relevance to the site it points to moves that between $127 and $317.
- Site Strength
- 65
- Worth up to
- $507
- Usual link type
- Level B — may be discounted → ×0.5
- Relevance to your site
- ×1
- BV score
- $254 per link
- Domain registered
- 7 May 1998
A link from alistapart.com, by link type
A link from alistapart.com at each level. What each level means.
| Level | Factor | Value |
|---|---|---|
| A — Counted | ×1 | $507 |
| B — May be discounted | ×0.5 | $254 |
| C — Usually neutralised | ×0.1 | $51 |
| D — Network | ×0.05 | $25 |
How alistapart.com links out: the full reading
We could not read alistapart.com's pages when it was valued on 25 October 2026 — the site blocked our reader or did not answer — so its link type is set by fixed rules until a later reading succeeds.
Traffic in detail
Modelled estimates for Sept 2026, as of 25 October 2026: site-wide, all visitors, not analytics measured on the site itself.
| Keyword | Searches / mo | CPC | Ad value / mo | Visits (est.) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| write for us | 9,900 | $2.70 | $26.7K | 880 |
| alisttapart | 250† | — | — | 240 |
| alistapart | 720 | — | — | 160 |
| “write for us” sites | 280† | — | — | 150 |
| how should time be allocated for side projects in company | 150† | — | — | 140 |
AI assistants
AI assistants sent about 2,059 visits in Sept 2026 — 3.4% of all visits. Each assistant's share of those visits, by month:
| Assistant | Jul 2026 | Aug 2026 | Sept 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | 11% | 100% | 15% |
alistapart.com's robots.txt lets every AI crawler below read the site.
| Crawler | robots.txt |
|---|---|
| AI searchCrawls when an assistant searches the web for an answer | |
 ChatGPT OAI-SearchBot | Allowed |
 Claude Claude-SearchBot | Allowed |
 Perplexity PerplexityBot | Allowed |
| AI trainingCollects text to train AI models | |
 OpenAI GPTBot | Allowed |
 Anthropic ClaudeBot | Allowed |
 Google Google-Extended | Allowed |
 Apple Applebot-Extended | Allowed |
 Meta Meta-ExternalAgent | Allowed |
 ByteDance Bytespider | Allowed |
 Common Crawl CCBot | Allowed |
Server and network
Its domain was registered in 1998.
mxverify looked up alistapart.com's address: no other publication in the directory runs on 199.16.172.59. 265 publications are on the same hosting network (AUTOMATTIC, AS2635) — a cloud platform hosting millions of unrelated sites, so that is no sign of a connection.
AUTOMATTIC is a cloud platform hosting millions of unrelated sites, so sharing it says nothing about who runs a site. The count is shown; the sites are not listed.
Where each figure comes from
| Figure | Source | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Backlink value | BV 2.9 | Site Strength × link type; link type at the default until the site is read or audited |
| Links placed here | bklink audits | None audited yet |
| How it links out | Read by mxverify | The site did not let our reader in (25 Oct 2026) |
| Traffic | Third-party estimates | Modelled estimates for Sept 2026, site-wide and for all visitors, as of 25 Oct 2026 |
| Links to this site | Third-party backlink index | 23,676 linking sites, read 25 Oct 2026; one reading a month |
| Authority | Ahrefs Domain Rating | Half of Site Strength, shown in steps of 5, as of 1 Nov 2026; the rating itself is not shown |
| Server and network | mxverify's DNS and ASN lookup | 199.16.172.59 · AUTOMATTIC |
| Domain age | Domain registry (RDAP) | Registered 7 May 1998 |
Limitations: what this report does not show
- No link on this publication has been audited yet, so nothing here describes how its links behave.