What a link is worthBacklink value and traffic report for datatracker.ietf.org
In short: A new followed link from datatracker.ietf.org is worth about $587 to rankings by BV 2.9 (level A, Site Strength 70 of 100). It gets about 359.4K visits a month, 22% from organic search, down 44% since Aug 2026. No link placed on it has been audited.
The badge shows what a link from datatracker.ietf.org is worth, as this report does, and updates by itself. It links to this report.
Backlink value · what one new followed link from datatracker.ietf.org is worth to rankings
BV$587per link · level A · strength 70reading confidenceLow, 29 out of 100
Reading confidence 29 / 100
3 of 3 pages read had text · 6 links to other sites seen
How much of datatracker.ietf.org we read, and how sure our model was about the kind of link it gives. Never higher than what we read. The full reading
Priced from our reading of the site. No reliable sample of checked links yet: its link type comes from the articles mxverify read on the site.
$294 unrelated ×0.5$734 same topic ×1.25
- Direct49%
- Organic search22%
- Referrals22%
- Social4.2%
- AI assistants2.6%
- Other channels0.9%
Links to this site
Links other sites have made to datatracker.ietf.org, from outside link indexes: not the links placed on it that bklink audits.
Where the links sit: 12% in the article or main content of the linking page, 3.3% in its header, menu, sidebar or footer
Pages in Google: about 439,000
What Google shows for site:datatracker.ietf.org — the first 10 pages
- RFC 6554: An IPv6 Routing Header for Source Routes with ...
- RFC 3768: Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
- Multicast Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks (MPL)
- RFC 9636: The Time Zone Information Format (TZif)
- RFC 7093: Additional Methods for Generating Key ...
- RFC 4252: The Secure Shell (SSH) Authentication Protocol
- RFC 9768: More Accurate Explicit Congestion Notification ...
- RFC 7661: Updating TCP to Support Rate-Limited Traffic
- RFC 8031: Curve25519 and Curve448 for the Internet Key ...
- Arm's Platform Security Architecture (PSA) Attestation Token
Links placed here
No link placed on datatracker.ietf.org 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
Followed 100%
Domain and hosting
- Domain registered
- 11 March 1995
- Registration expires
- 12 March 2031
- Server address
- 104.16.45.99
- Hosting network
- Cloudflare (CDN)
Tech stack
Publisher signals
- Author bylines: none marked up on the homepage
- About page: linked from the homepage
- Editorial policy: not linked from the homepage
- Contact page: not linked from the homepage
Page speed
Chrome users, 28 days to 7 Nov 2026: LCP 1.2 s · INP 111 ms · CLS 0.04 — passes Core Web Vitals.
Devices: 55% phone · 43% desktop · 1% tablet — share of Chrome page loads, same 28 days.
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How to use this report
- Price check. BV puts one new followed link from datatracker.ietf.org at $587 (level A), priced on a blend of link types (A 89% · B 8% · C 3%): $294 to an unrelated site (×0.5), $734 to a same-topic site (×1.25). A followed editorial link (level A) would be worth up to $628 before relevance. A quote far above $785 for a level A link pays for what BV does not measure.
- Qualification and risk. Its Site Strength is 70 / 100; the link it usually gives is mostly level A — counted (an editorial citation). In the 3 articles we read, 0% of the links to other sites are nofollow, sponsored or ugc. The spam score of its links is 12 (0–100, the linking pages' average), not datatracker.ietf.org's own.
- Traffic reality check. Set any traffic claim beside the Oct 2026 estimate: 359.4K monthly visits, 22% from organic search (78.9K). Visits fell 44% from Aug 2026 to Oct 2026. Its top keyword by Visits (est.) is “web proxy”, about 5,610 a month; the ad value beside it is the whole market's.
- AI assistant visits. 2.6% of its visits in Oct 2026 came from AI assistants' answers, about 9,307 (visits, not citations); Gemini sent the most in Oct 2026, 45% of them. The split moved a lot between months (ChatGPT from 55% in Sept 2026 to 14% in Oct 2026): read it as a snapshot, not a trend.
Quick answers about datatracker.ietf.org
What is a link from datatracker.ietf.org 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 datatracker.ietf.org is worth about $587 (level A). Relevance moves it: $294 to an unrelated site, $734 to a same-topic site.
In short: a link from datatracker.ietf.org is worth about $587 to rankings, up to $734 on the same topic.
Source: mxverify BV 2.9 methodology
Is a link from datatracker.ietf.org worth placing?
That depends on the kind of link: by BV 2.9, a link from datatracker.ietf.org is worth $628 as an editorial citation (level A), $314 as a guest, sponsored or listed link (level B), $63 as a press-release, syndicated, profile or forum link (level C), $31 as a network link (level D), before relevance. A price far above $785 for a level A link pays for something BV does not measure, such as the site's own readers.
Source: mxverify BV 2.9 methodology
How does datatracker.ietf.org's BV compare with other sites?
At about $587 a link, datatracker.ietf.org is in the “$500 or more” value band, with 55 of the 4,521 sites valued on mxverify. No site is in a higher band.
In short: datatracker.ietf.org is in the highest value band of the 4,521 sites valued on mxverify.
Source: mxverify's own directory, counted at the last daily update
How much traffic does datatracker.ietf.org get?
datatracker.ietf.org gets about 359.4K visits a month (Oct 2026), by a modelled estimate of all its visitors, not analytics measured on the site. 22% of them (78.9K) come from organic search. Visits fell 44% from Aug 2026 to Oct 2026.
In short: datatracker.ietf.org draws about 359.4K visits a month, down 44% since Aug 2026.
Does datatracker.ietf.org pass Core Web Vitals?
Yes: real Chrome users see datatracker.ietf.org's largest content load in 1.2 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: datatracker.ietf.org passes Core Web Vitals on real-user data.
Source: Chrome UX Report, 28 days to 7 Nov 2026; web.dev: Web Vitals
Does datatracker.ietf.org link out with nofollow?
In the 3 articles we read, datatracker.ietf.org made 6 links to other sites, and 0% of them were nofollow, sponsored or ugc; the other 100% were followed.
Source: mxverify's reading of 3 articles, 10 Nov 2026; Google Search Central: qualify your outbound links
How old is datatracker.ietf.org?
The registered domain ietf.org was registered in 1995, 31 years ago. datatracker.ietf.org is a subdomain, so it carries its registered domain's registration date.
Source: the public registration record; RFC 9083: RDAP JSON responses
How many sites link to datatracker.ietf.org?
57,273 websites link to datatracker.ietf.org, each counted once. 7,016 of them (12%) link with nofollow.
Has datatracker.ietf.org been audited?
No link placed on datatracker.ietf.org 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: datatracker.ietf.org's report is valued, not audited.
How BV is worked out
A followed editorial link from datatracker.ietf.org would be worth up to $628 under BV 2.9, before relevance: its Site Strength is 70 out of 100. The link it usually gives is level A, worth about $587 — and relevance to the site it points to moves that between $294 and $734.
- Site Strength
- 70
- Worth up to
- $628
- Usual link type
- Mostly level A — counted · A 89%, B 8%, C 3% → ×0.93
- Relevance to your site
- ×1
- BV score
- $587 per link
- Domain registered
- 11 March 1995
A link from datatracker.ietf.org, by link type
A link from datatracker.ietf.org at each level. What each level means.
| Level | Factor | Value |
|---|---|---|
| A — Counted | ×1 | $628 |
| B — May be discounted | ×0.5 | $314 |
| C — Usually neutralised | ×0.1 | $63 |
| D — Network | ×0.05 | $31 |
How datatracker.ietf.org links out: the full reading
Read by mxverify on 10 November 2026: the homepage and 3 articles (3 linked from its homepage).
Thin sample
Articles read
| Article | Words | Links out | Followed | Says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IETF | Preventing Internet Route Hijack with SIDRops Technology | 910 | 5 | 5 | — |
| IETF Anti-Harassment Policy | 264 | 0 | 0 | — |
| IETF | IETF Administration LLC 2027 Draft Budget | 879 | 1 | 1 | — |
Jev, the model that judges every link in a bklink audit, reads these pages as a site whose links are mostly level A — A 98%, B 0%, C 2.0%, D 0%. Put together with what kind of site it is, how established it is, whether it sells placements and how it links out, a new link here is priced as A 89%, B 7.6%, C 3.0%, D 0%.
Traffic in detail
Modelled estimates for Oct 2026, as of 10 November 2026: site-wide, all visitors, not analytics measured on the site itself.
| Keyword | Searches / mo | CPC | Ad value / mo | Visits (est.) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| web proxy | 450K | $3.09 | $1.4M | 5,610 |
| capwap | 2,900 | $6.69 | $19.4K | 770 |
| sip rfc | 480 | — | — | 720 |
| rfc 791 | 1,900 | — | — | 690 |
| bmwg.lat -bmw777 | 4,550† | — | — | 620 |
AI assistants
AI assistants sent about 9,307 visits in Oct 2026 — 2.6% of all visits. Each assistant's share of those visits, by month:
| Assistant | Aug 2026 | Sept 2026 | Oct 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gemini | 30% | 25% | 45% |
| ChatGPT | 64% | 55% | 14% |
| Claude | 0.7% | 3.1% | 6.1% |
datatracker.ietf.org'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 |
Potential display-ad revenue
$390–$1,900a month, estimated
- 973.3K pageviews a month: 359.4K visits × 2.7 pages per visit (Oct 2026)
- Niche: not identified · general page RPM $1–$5 per 1,000 pageviews
- 25% of visits from the US, the UK, Canada and Australia; other countries counted at 20% of the rate
Server and network
Its domain was registered in 1995.
mxverify looked up datatracker.ietf.org's address: it 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, and sharing the network is no sign of a connection.
Cloudflare (CDN) fronts millions of unrelated sites, so sharing it says nothing about who runs a site.
Where each figure comes from
| Figure | Source | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Backlink value | BV 2.9 | Site Strength × link type; link type from our reading of the site |
| Links placed here | bklink audits | None audited yet |
| How it links out | Read by mxverify | 6 links to other sites in 3 articles; read 10 Nov 2026 Thin sample |
| Traffic | Third-party estimates | Modelled estimates for Oct 2026, site-wide and for all visitors, as of 10 Nov 2026 |
| Links to this site | Third-party backlink index | 57,273 linking sites, read 11 Nov 2026; one reading a month |
| Authority | Ahrefs Domain Rating | Half of Site Strength, shown in steps of 5, as of 12 Nov 2026; the rating itself is not shown |
| Server and network | mxverify's DNS and ASN lookup | 104.16.45.99 · Cloudflare (CDN) · a CDN edge, shared by unrelated sites |
| Domain age | Domain registry (RDAP) | Registered 11 Mar 1995 |
| Potential display-ad revenue | mxverify estimate | Traffic estimate's pageviews for Oct 2026 × the general page RPM benchmark × country factor, worked out Nov 2026; not the site's earnings |
Limitations: 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.
- datatracker.ietf.org gives more than one kind of link (A 89% · B 8% · C 3%), so BV prices a blend of them: an editorial link there would be worth $628 and a guest or sponsored one $314, before relevance.
- datatracker.ietf.org's visits fell 44% from Aug 2026 to Oct 2026. Half of Site Strength is organic search traffic, so a fall that lasts lowers BV when the figure is next read.