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Backlink value and traffic report for design.com
In short: A new followed link from design.com is worth about $125 to rankings by BV 2.9 (level C, Site Strength 75 of 100); BV is an estimate, not a price anyone charges. It gets about 4M visits a month, 30% from organic search, down 8.0% since Jul 2026. No link placed on it has been audited.
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Backlink value · what one new followed link from design.com is worth to rankings
BV$125per link · level C · strength 75reading confidenceLow, 19 out of 100
Reading confidence 19 / 100
4 of 4 pages read had text · 0 links to other sites seen · posts from Aug 2020
How much of design.com we read, and how sure our model was about the kind of link it gives. Never higher than what we read. The full reading
$62 unrelated ×0.5$156 same topic ×1.25
In its own words
Slogan: Design & branding made easy with AI
Its file lists 8 sections: AI Design Tools, Branding & Identity Tools, Social Media Design Tools, Print & Merchandise Tools, Web & Digital Tools, Design Templates, Design Ideas & Inspiration, Free Tools & Resources.
- Direct39%
- Organic search30%
- Paid15%
- AI assistants9.1%
- Referrals4.0%
- Other channels4.0%
Links to this site
Links other sites have made to design.com, from outside link indexes: not the links placed on it that bklink audits.
Where the links sit: 21% in the article or main content of the linking page, 66% in its header, menu, sidebar or footer
Pages in Google: about 982,000
What Google shows for site:design.com — the first 10 pages
Links placed here
No link placed on design.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
No links to other sites in the 4 articles read.
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: linked from the homepage
Page speed
Chrome users, 28 days to 30 Oct 2026: LCP 2.4 s · INP 272 ms · CLS 0.00 — does not pass Core Web Vitals.
Devices: 67% phone · 32% desktop · 2% tablet — share of Chrome page loads, same 28 days.
Domain and hosting
- Domain registered
- 13 July 1993
- Content category
- business
- Server address
- 13.32.121.79
- Hosting network
- Amazon AWS
Similar sites
How to use this report
- Price check. BV puts one new followed link from design.com at $125 (level C), priced on a blend of link types (B 15% · C 80% · D 5%): $62 to an unrelated site (×0.5), $156 to a same-topic site (×1.25). A followed editorial link (level A) would be worth up to $778 before relevance. A quote far above $97 for a level C link pays for what BV does not measure.
- Qualification and risk. Its Site Strength is 75 / 100; the link it usually gives is mostly level C — usually neutralised (a press-release, syndicated, profile or forum link). The spam score of its links is 11 (0–100, the linking pages' average), not design.com's own.
- Traffic reality check. Set any traffic claim beside the Sept 2026 estimate: 4M monthly visits, 30% from organic search (1.2M). Visits fell 8.0% from Jul 2026 to Sept 2026. Its top keyword by Visits (est.) is “logo maker”, about 91K a month; the ad value beside it is the whole market's.
- AI assistant visits. 9.1% of its visits in Sept 2026 came from AI assistants' answers, about 363.4K (visits, not citations); ChatGPT sent the most in Sept 2026, 84% of them. The split moved a lot between months (ChatGPT from 37% in Jul 2026 to 98% in Aug 2026): read it as a snapshot, not a trend.
Quick answers about design.com
What is a link from design.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 design.com is worth about $125 (level C). Relevance moves it: $62 to an unrelated site, $156 to a same-topic site.
In short: a link from design.com is worth about $125 to rankings, up to $156 on the same topic.
Source: mxverify BV 2.9 methodology
Is a link from design.com worth placing?
That depends on the kind of link: by BV 2.9, a link from design.com is worth $778 as an editorial citation (level A), $389 as a guest, sponsored or listed link (level B), $78 as a press-release, syndicated, profile or forum link (level C), $39 as a network link (level D), before relevance. A price far above $97 for a level C link pays for something BV does not measure, such as the site's own readers.
Source: mxverify BV 2.9 methodology
How does design.com's BV compare with other sites?
At about $125 a link, design.com is in the “$100 to $249” value band, with 307 of the 4,018 sites valued on mxverify. 176 sites are in a higher band.
In short: 176 of the 4,018 valued sites sit in a higher value band than design.com.
Source: mxverify's own directory, counted at the last daily update
How much traffic does design.com get?
design.com gets about 4M visits a month (Sept 2026), by a modelled estimate of all its visitors, not analytics measured on the site. 30% of them (1.2M) come from organic search. Visits fell 8.0% from Jul 2026 to Sept 2026.
In short: design.com draws about 4M visits a month, down 8.0% since Jul 2026.
Does design.com pass Core Web Vitals?
No: real Chrome users see design.com's largest content load in 2.4 s (LCP), and at least one vital reported for it is not 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: design.com does not pass Core Web Vitals on real-user data.
Source: Chrome UX Report, 28 days to 30 Oct 2026; web.dev: Web Vitals
How old is design.com?
The domain design.com was registered in 1993, 33 years ago.
Source: the public registration record; RFC 9083: RDAP JSON responses
How many sites link to design.com?
12,595 websites link to design.com, each counted once. 2,801 of them (22%) link with nofollow.
Has design.com been audited?
No link placed on design.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: design.com's report is valued, not audited.
How BV is worked out
A followed editorial link from design.com would be worth up to $778 under BV 2.9, before relevance: its Site Strength is 75 out of 100. The link it usually gives is level C, worth about $125 — and relevance to the site it points to moves that between $62 and $156.
- Site Strength
- 75
- Worth up to
- $778
- Usual link type
- Mostly level C — usually neutralised · B 15%, C 80%, D 5% → ×0.16
- Relevance to your site
- ×1
- BV score
- $125 per link
- Domain registered
- 13 July 1993
A link from design.com, by link type
A link from design.com at each level. What each level means.
| Level | Factor | Value |
|---|---|---|
| A — Counted | ×1 | $778 |
| B — May be discounted | ×0.5 | $389 |
| C — Usually neutralised | ×0.1 | $78 |
| D — Network | ×0.05 | $39 |
How design.com links out: the full reading
Read by mxverify on 1 November 2026: the homepage and 4 articles (1 from across its sitemap, 4 linked from its homepage). 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 placed here are audited.
Thin sample
Articles read
| Article | Published | Words | Links out | Followed | Says |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free AI Domain Name Generator | Design.com | Aug 2020 | 234 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Free AI Business Card Generator | Design.com | Aug 2020 | 1,926 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Free AI Link in Bio Generator | Design.com | Aug 2020 | 2,201 | 0 | 0 | — |
| AI Social Media Generator | Design.com | — | 328 | 0 | 0 | — |
Jev, the model that judges every link in a bklink audit, reads these pages as a site whose links are mostly level A — A 62%, B 14%, C 23%, D 1.0%. 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 0.4%, B 15%, C 80%, D 5.2%.
Traffic in detail
Modelled estimates for Sept 2026, as of 1 November 2026: site-wide, all visitors, not analytics measured on the site itself.
| Keyword | Searches / mo | CPC | Ad value / mo | Visits (est.) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| logo maker | 167.2K | $0.56 | $93.6K | 91K |
| free logo maker | 1.9M | $1.04 | $2M | 34.1K |
| logo generator | 90.9K | $0.96 | $87.3K | 31.4K |
| logo | 505.6K | $0.78 | $394.4K | 29K |
| design | 199.8K | $1.07 | $213.8K | 22K |
AI assistants
AI assistants sent about 363.4K visits in Sept 2026 — 9.1% of all visits. Each assistant's share of those visits, by month:
| Assistant | Jul 2026 | Aug 2026 | Sept 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | 37% | 98% | 84% |
design.com's robots.txt lets every AI crawler below read its home page; 7 are asked to stay out of parts of 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 | Partly |
 Anthropic ClaudeBot | Partly |
 Google Google-Extended | Partly |
 Apple Applebot-Extended | Partly |
 Meta Meta-ExternalAgent | Partly |
 ByteDance Bytespider | Partly |
 Common Crawl CCBot | Partly |
Server and network
Its domain was registered in 1993.
mxverify looked up design.com's address: no other publication in the directory runs on 13.32.121.79. 478 publications are on the same hosting network (Amazon AWS, AS16509) — a cloud platform hosting millions of unrelated sites, so that is no sign of a connection.
Amazon AWS 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 from our reading of the site |
| Links placed here | bklink audits | None audited yet |
| How it links out | Read by mxverify | 0 links to other sites in 4 articles, published Aug 2020; read 1 Nov 2026 Thin sample |
| Traffic | Third-party estimates | Modelled estimates for Sept 2026, site-wide and for all visitors, as of 1 Nov 2026 |
| Links to this site | Third-party backlink index | 12,595 linking sites, read 1 Nov 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 | 13.32.121.79 · Amazon AWS |
| Domain age | Domain registry (RDAP) | Registered 13 Jul 1993 |
Limitations: what this report does not show
- No link on this publication has been audited yet, so nothing here describes how its links behave.
- design.com gives more than one kind of link (B 15% · C 80% · D 5%), so BV prices a blend of them: an editorial link there would be worth $778 and a guest or sponsored one $389, before relevance.
Social profiles
Combined followers 30.2K across 5 profiles
The profiles design.com names for itself, in its structured data or linked from its homepage, read 01 Nov 2026. They are the accounts the site points to, not a check of who runs them. A pill opens the sites with a profile on that platform; the arrow opens the profile. Follower counts as of 01 Nov 2026. A tick: the profile's own website field names this site.
Combined followers adds each profile's count: the same person can follow on more than one platform, and YouTube rounds its figure. The donut splits it by platform, each in its brand colour. On since is the year the account began. Posts and videos are all-time totals. A badge is the platform's own mark, not a check by us. All read from each profile page.