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title: "Backlink Value & Traffic Report for alistapart.com"
url: https://mxverify.uk/publications/alistapart.com
description: "alistapart.com: a followed link from it is worth $254 by BV 2.9 (link type B). 23,676 websites link to it. Not yet audited. Hosted on AUTOMATTIC (US)."
site: mxverify
generated: 2026-11-01T15:52:21.542Z
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mxverify · valued

# 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.

Organisation: A List Apart; since 1998. [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4657774?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) · First recorded 25 October 2026 · Last updated 25 October 2026 · [Visit alistapart.com](https://alistapart.com/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report)

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## Backlink value · what one new followed link from alistapart.com is worth to rankings

[BV **$254** per link · level B · strength 65](https://bklink.uk/methodology?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report#bv)

reading confidence **Couldn'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.

Priced 1 Nov 2026.

**Relevance to the linked site moves it**

**$127** unrelated ×0.5 **$317** same topic ×1.25

**By the kind of link it gives**

- A editorial $507
- B guest, sponsored $254
- C neutralised $51
- D network $25

[How BV is worked out](https://mxverify.uk/publications/alistapart.com#bv-detail) · BV 2.9 · not a price anyone charges

**[60.6K](https://mxverify.uk/publications/alistapart.com#traffic)** monthly visits −3.5% since Jul 2026

**[10.8K](https://mxverify.uk/publications/alistapart.com#traffic)** from organic search 18% of visits

**[#635,716](https://mxverify.uk/publications/alistapart.com#traffic)** global rank

**[23,676](https://mxverify.uk/publications/alistapart.com#links-in)** sites link to it 2,613 of them nofollow

**[1998](https://mxverify.uk/publications/registered/1990s)** domain registered expires May 2027

**[1.1 s](https://mxverify.uk/publications/alistapart.com#tech)** page load for real users (LCP) passes Core Web Vitals

**Monthly visits**

Jul 2026: 62.8K visits; Aug 2026: 60.3K visits; Sept 2026: 60.6K visits

**Where visitors come from**

Direct 58%, Organic search 18%, Referrals 13%, Social 6.1%, AI assistants 3.4%

- [Direct](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/direct) **58%**
- [Organic search](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/organic-search) **18%**
- [Referrals](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/referrals) **13%**
- [Social](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/social) **6.1%**
- AI assistants **3.4%**
- Other channels **2.1%**

Organic search, in green, is the traffic BV prices on.

**Top countries**

- [United States](https://mxverify.uk/publications/audience/united-states) 33%
- [Canada](https://mxverify.uk/publications/audience/canada) 10.0%
- [India](https://mxverify.uk/publications/audience/india) 5.9%
- [United Kingdom](https://mxverify.uk/publications/audience/united-kingdom) 5.6%
- [Pakistan](https://mxverify.uk/publications/audience/pakistan) 3.7%
- Other countries 42%

## 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.

**23,676** websites link to it 2,613 of them with nofollow links

**2.1M** links in all, from those websites about 88 per website · first seen 2019

**24** spam score of its links 0–100, the linking pages' average

**15,957** IP addresses they link from 8,065 subnets

**Pages in Google:** about 3,430 · the count Google gives for a site: search, its own estimate, which can be far off either way

What Google shows for site:alistapart.com — the first 10 pages

1. [About](https://alistapart.com/about/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) alistapart.com/about/
2. [Jeffery Callender](https://alistapart.com/author/jcallender/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) alistapart.com/author/jcallender/ · Apr 20, 2010
3. [Tim Smith](https://alistapart.com/author/timothybsmith/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) alistapart.com/author/timothybsmith/ · Nov 27, 2013
4. [Staying Motivated](https://alistapart.com/article/stayingmotivated/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) alistapart.com/article/stayingmotivated/ · Aug 14, 2007
5. [Ten Years](https://alistapart.com/article/tenyears/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) alistapart.com/article/tenyears/ · Oct 8, 2008
6. [Sarah B. Nelson](https://alistapart.com/author/snelson/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) alistapart.com/author/snelson/ · Sep 11, 2007
7. [Ross Howard](https://alistapart.com/author/rosshoward/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) alistapart.com/author/rosshoward/ · Sep 5, 2005
8. [Joscelin Cooper](https://alistapart.com/author/joscelincooper/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) alistapart.com/author/joscelincooper/ · May 5, 2015
9. [The Way It's Supposed to Work](https://alistapart.com/article/wayitssupposedtowork/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) alistapart.com/article/wayitssupposedtowork/ · Jan 18, 2005
10. [Behavioral Separation](https://alistapart.com/article/behavioralseparation/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) alistapart.com/article/behavioralseparation/ · Jun 20, 2006

Sources: link counts and spam score from a third-party backlink index, read 25 October 2026; the chart grows by one reading a month; page count and pages from a Google site: search, 25 October 2026. BV prices on one of these only, the page count: when two site: searches at least 7 days apart both find no pages, and nothing on record shows Google indexing the site, a link from it is priced at most level C.

## Links placed here

No link placed on alistapart.com has been audited yet. [An audit on bklink.uk](https://bklink.uk/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) checks each one — still there, followed or not, where it sits — and marks this report audited.

This report's link to alistapart.com is nofollow. It is followed when the site's owner audits alistapart.com's own backlinks on bklink.uk, chooses to publish it and proves the site is theirs (for 90 days from each audit), or once a one-time payment of $9 is made for it. [When a link here is followed](https://mxverify.uk/methodology#followed-links)

## 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.

Read 25 Oct 2026 · [the full reading](https://mxverify.uk/publications/alistapart.com#reading)

## Tech stack

- [Ad loadNo ad networks found](https://mxverify.uk/publications/ads/none)

### Page speed

Chrome users, 28 days to 23 Oct 2026: LCP 1.1 s · INP 32 ms · CLS 0.00 — passes Core Web Vitals. Data from the Chrome UX Report (Google), CC BY 4.0.

Devices: 14% phone · 86% desktop — share of Chrome page loads, same 28 days.

Sources: ad load from a web technology index, 25 Oct 2026.

## Domain and hosting

- **Domain registered**: [07 May 1998](https://mxverify.uk/publications/registered/1990s)
- **Registration expires**: 06 May 2027
- **Record last changed**: 08 March 2024
- **Server address**: 199.16.172.59
- **Hosting network**: AUTOMATTIC · AS2635 · US

## Similar sites

Matched on the subject the two sites share. Never a site on the same server or network.

- [smashingmagazine.com BV $331 · level B B Developer resources](https://mxverify.uk/publications/smashingmagazine.com)
- [css-tricks.com BV $78 · level B · nofollow C Developer resources](https://mxverify.uk/publications/css-tricks.com)
- [codepen.io BV $210 · level C C Developer resources](https://mxverify.uk/publications/codepen.io)
- [scaleengineer.com BV $9.18 · level B · nofollow C Developer resources](https://mxverify.uk/publications/scaleengineer.com)
- [kinetics.colorion.co BV $106 · level B B Developer resources](https://mxverify.uk/publications/kinetics.colorion.co)

More like it: [Guest post sites](https://mxverify.uk/publications/level/b) · [Backlink sites worth $250 to $499 a link](https://mxverify.uk/publications/value/250-499) · [Old websites from the 90s](https://mxverify.uk/publications/registered/1990s)

How to use this report 4 ways to use these figures

- **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. · [Backlink value](https://mxverify.uk/publications/alistapart.com#value) · [what this means](https://mxverify.uk/guide#use)
- **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. · [How BV is worked out](https://mxverify.uk/publications/alistapart.com#bv-detail) · [what this means](https://mxverify.uk/guide#levels)
- **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. · [Traffic in detail](https://mxverify.uk/publications/alistapart.com#traffic) · [what this means](https://mxverify.uk/guide#traffic)
- **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. · [AI assistants](https://mxverify.uk/publications/alistapart.com#ai-assistants) · [what this means](https://mxverify.uk/guide#ai)

What each figure means, and what it cannot tell you: [How to read a site report](https://mxverify.uk/guide).

Quick answers about alistapart.com 8 questions answered

### 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](https://mxverify.uk/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](https://mxverify.uk/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.

Source: [third-party traffic estimate, Sept 2026](https://mxverify.uk/publications/alistapart.com#evidence)

### 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](https://developer.chrome.com/docs/crux); [web.dev: Web Vitals](https://web.dev/articles/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](https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9083/)

### 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.

Source: [third-party backlink index, Oct 2026](https://mxverify.uk/publications/alistapart.com#evidence)

### 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 Site Strength 65 / 100 · level B · each factor and link type

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** / 100 ([how Site Strength is worked out](https://mxverify.uk/methodology#reading-a-report)). Traffic: 10.8K estimated monthly organic visits, as of 25 October 2026.
- **Worth up to**: $507 · before relevance — [how it is calculated](https://mxverify.uk/backlink-value#how)
- **Usual link type**: Level B — may be discounted → ×0.5 We could not read this site's pages — it blocked our reader or did not answer — and no link placed here has been audited, so the default for a link inside an article applies. The table below shows the other levels.
- **Relevance to your site**: ×1 · neutral here ([range in an audit](https://mxverify.uk/methodology#reading-a-report))
- **BV score**: **$254** per link
- **Domain registered**: 7 May 1998 · shown for context ([how age is used](https://mxverify.uk/methodology#reading-a-report))

### A link from alistapart.com, by link type

A link from alistapart.com at each level. [What each level means](https://mxverify.uk/methodology#link-levels).

| 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 the site did not let our reader in

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 engagement, top keywords, AI assistants · AI crawler access

Modelled estimates for Sept 2026, as of 25 October 2026: site-wide, all visitors, not analytics measured on the site itself.

- **#635,716** global rank
- **#455,620** rank in US
- **46%** bounce rate
- **1.5** pages per visit
- **21s** time on site

**Every channel**

- [Organic search](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/organic-search) 18%
- [Direct](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/direct) 58%
- [Referrals](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/referrals) 13%
- [Social](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/social) 6.1%
- AI assistants 3.4%
- [Email](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/email) 1.5%
- [Paid](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/paid) 0%
- Affiliate and other 0.7%

Share of all visits. Organic search is highlighted: it is the traffic BV prices on.

**Top search keywords**

| Keyword | Searches / mo | CPC | Ad value / mo | Visits (est.) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [write for us](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/write-for-us) | 9,900 | $2.70 | $26.7K | 880 |
| [alisttapart](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/alisttapart) | 250† | — | — | 240 |
| [alistapart](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/alistapart) | 720 | — | — | 160 |
| [“write for us” sites](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/write-for-us-sites) | 280† | — | — | 150 |
| [how should time be allocated for side projects in company](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/how-should-time-be-allocated-for-side-projects-in-company) | 150† | — | — | 140 |

Searches, CPC and ad value: Google Ads, worldwide, its latest month, where it has the keyword; † third-party traffic estimates where it does not (the two often differ several times over). Ad value: what a month of the keyword's searches would cost as search ads (searches × cost per click) — what advertisers pay for it, not how hard it is to rank for. Visits (est.): the traffic estimate's own figure for the keyword on this site, which behaves like visits a month, not an amount of money. Each keyword opens the list of sites where it is a top search keyword.

### 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:

[ChatGPT](https://mxverify.uk/publications/ai/chatgpt)

ChatGPT: Jul 2026 11%, Aug 2026 100%, Sept 2026 15%

| Assistant | Jul 2026 | Aug 2026 | Sept 2026 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ChatGPT | 11% | 100% | 15% |

**AI crawler access**

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 |

Read from alistapart.com/robots.txt on 26 October 2026. robots.txt is a request that crawlers choose to follow; a site can also refuse crawlers at its server, which this card does not see. Google's AI Overviews use Googlebot, so Google-Extended does not affect them.

Third-party traffic estimates. BV uses only the organic-search figure.

Server and network 0 other publications on the server · 265 on the 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 8 figures, their sources and dates

| Figure | Source | What it covers |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [Backlink value](https://mxverify.uk/publications/alistapart.com#value) | BV 2.9 | Site Strength × link type; link type at the default until the site is read or audited |
| [Links placed here](https://mxverify.uk/publications/alistapart.com#links) | bklink audits | None audited yet |
| [How it links out](https://mxverify.uk/publications/alistapart.com#reading) | Read by mxverify | The site did not let our reader in (25 Oct 2026) |
| [Traffic](https://mxverify.uk/publications/alistapart.com#traffic) | Third-party estimates | Modelled estimates for Sept 2026, site-wide and for all visitors, as of 25 Oct 2026 |
| [Links to this site](https://mxverify.uk/publications/alistapart.com#links-in) | Third-party backlink index | 23,676 linking sites, read 25 Oct 2026; one reading a month |
| [Authority](https://mxverify.uk/publications/alistapart.com#value) | 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](https://mxverify.uk/publications/alistapart.com#server) | mxverify's DNS and ASN lookup | 199.16.172.59 · AUTOMATTIC |
| [Domain age](https://mxverify.uk/publications/alistapart.com#hosting) | Domain registry (RDAP) | Registered 7 May 1998 |

Limitations: what this report does not show 1 stated plainly

- No link on this publication has been audited yet, so nothing here describes how its links behave.

What every report's figures can and cannot tell you: [how to read a report](https://mxverify.uk/methodology#reading-a-report).

Compiled from [bklink.uk](https://bklink.uk/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) audits · maintained by [Palash Bagchi](https://mxverify.uk/about) · updated 25 October 2026

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Source: mxverify, "Backlink Value & Traffic Report for alistapart.com", https://mxverify.uk/publications/alistapart.com (retrieved 2026-11-01). How every figure is worked out: https://mxverify.uk/methodology