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css-tricks.com

Name: css-tricks.com — audited link behaviour
Creator: mxverify

It is served through Cloudflare (CDN), a content delivery network, so its address is shared edge infrastructure and says nothing about who runs it. Its domain was registered in 2007.

Last updated 25 September 2026 · Visit css-tricks.com

Backlink value

BV$68per link · level C

A new followed link from css-tricks.com is worth about $68 under BV 2.0 — before relevance to the site it points to, which moves it between $34 and $86.

Link-equity scale: $342 · set by the site's authority band — see how it is calculated
Traffic factor: ×2 · From the site's estimated monthly organic visits (TabAPI, 25 September 2026).
Usual link type: Level C — usually neutralised → ×0.1
Read by Jev from our own reading of css-tricks.com's homepage and 3 recent articles; 100% of the links those articles make to other sites pass no credit, which caps that share of a new link at C. No link bought here has been audited yet.
Relevance to your site: ×1 · neutral here; in an audit it runs from ×0.5 (unrelated) to ×1.25 (same topic)
BV score: $68 per link
Domain registered: 4 July 2007 · shown for context; BV does not price on age

A link from css-tricks.com, by link type

The same site is worth very different amounts depending on the link it gives you. This is what each level is worth here.

Level	What it is	Factor	Value
A — Counted	An editorial citation: the site linked because it is useful to its readers.	×1	$684
B — May be discounted	A guest, sponsored or placed article, or a product or tool directory listing.	×0.5	$342
C — Usually neutralised	A press release or syndicated copy, a forum post, profile, footer or sidebar link — and any nofollow link.	×0.1	$68
D — Network or spam	A site sharing its server with more than 20 other audited sites, a link farm, or machine-generated pages.	×0.05	$34

How css-tricks.com links out

Read by mxverify on 25 September 2026: the homepage and 3 recent articles. This is our own reading of the site, not a vendor's figure, and it is what places a new link on the A–D scale until links bought here are audited.

Links its articles make to other sites

Followed0%
Nofollow100%
Sponsored0%
User-generated (ugc)0%

95 links to other sites across 3 articles, share buttons left out. BV counts 100% of a new link's weight at most C, because that share of the site's own links passes no credit.

What its homepage offers

Advertising · “Advertising”

Runs on WordPress.

Articles read

Article	Words	Links out	Says
Let’s Use the Emergent CSS random() Function in all the Browsers \| CSS-Tricks	3,628	65	—
What’s !important #18: <geolocation>, Syntax ::highlight()ing, named-feature(), and More \| CSS-Tricks	685	22	—
Creating Web Widgets Using the Document Picture-in-Picture API \| CSS-Tricks	1,356	8	—

Jev, the model that judges every link in a bklink audit, reads these pages as a site whose links are mostly level A — A 90%, B 5.0%, C 5.0%, D 0%. A new link is priced at B at most: reading the site cannot tell whether a new link will be earned or placed. Only an audit of links on the site can show level A.

Traffic

Modelled estimates for Aug 2026 from TabAPI, bought 25 September 2026. They are a model of the site's audience, not figures measured on the site — use them to compare and size, not to audit.

617.8Kmonthly visits−13% since Jun 2026

360.9Kfrom organic search58% of visits

#104,644global rank

#85,968rank in US

61%bounce rate

1.5pages per visit

1m 02stime on site

Monthly visits

Where visitors come from

Organic search58%
Direct26%
Referrals9.5%
Social4.3%
AI assistants1.3%
Email0.2%
Paid0.1%
Affiliate and other0%

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

Top countries

United States24%
United Kingdom7.2%
India6.3%
Germany4.0%
Spain3.2%
Other countries55%

Top search keywords

Keyword	Searches / mo	CPC	Traffic value
css grid	19.9K	$0.89	$4,700
css tricks	4,220	$2.95	$3,620
flexbox	15.3K	$1.45	$2,480
flex css	7,870	$2.76	$2,060
css flexbox	6,710	$1.78	$2,050

Traffic value: what the keyword's visits would cost as search ads, per month.

AI assistants

AI assistants sent about 7,847 visits in Aug 2026 — 1.3% of all visits. Each assistant's share of those visits, by month:

ChatGPTPerplexityClaude

Assistant	Jun 2026	Jul 2026	Aug 2026
ChatGPT	82%	47%	49%
Perplexity	4.3%	0%	8.4%
Claude	0.9%	11%	7.7%

Traffic estimates by TabAPI — modelled, not measured. BV uses only the organic-search figure.

Links bought here

No link bought on css-tricks.com has been audited yet. An audit on bklink.uk checks each one — still there, followed or not, where it sits — and moves this record from valued to audited.

Hosting

Server address: 104.18.39.21 · CDN edge, shared by unrelated sites
Hosting network: Cloudflare (CDN) · AS13335
Server country: US
Domain registered: 04 July 2007

Server and network

css-tricks.com is served through Cloudflare (CDN), a content delivery network. Its address is shared edge infrastructure used by unrelated sites, so it cannot show who else runs on the same server.

CDNedge address, not a server

547on the same hosting network

Publications on the same hosting network

The same provider, not the same machine — large providers host thousands of unrelated sites.

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What this report does not show

No link on this publication has been audited yet, so nothing here describes how its links behave.
A CDN address is shared by unrelated sites, so it says nothing about ownership; no neighbours are listed for it.
A link that is followed is not necessarily a link search engines value; this record does not measure rankings or traffic.

Compiled from bklink.uk audits · maintained by Palash Bagchi · updated 25 September 2026