--- title: "Backlink Value & Traffic Report for digipen.edu" url: https://mxverify.uk/publications/digipen.edu description: "digipen.edu: a followed link from it is worth $361 by BV 2.9 (link type A). Not yet audited. Hosted on LEVEL3 (US). Domain registered 1997." site: mxverify generated: 2026-10-29T13:28:09.645Z --- mxverify · valued # Backlink value and traffic report for digipen.edu **In short:** A new followed link from digipen.edu is worth about $361 to rankings by BV 2.9 (level A, Site Strength 60 of 100); BV is an estimate, not a price anyone charges. It gets about 305.2K visits a month, 16% from organic search, up 33% since Jul 2026. No link placed on it has been audited. First recorded 29 October 2026 · Last updated 29 October 2026 · [Visit digipen.edu](https://digipen.edu/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) [Compare](https://mxverify.uk/compare/digipen.edu#add) Show digipen.edu's BV badge on your site The badge shows what a link from digipen.edu is worth, as this report does, and updates by itself. It links to this report. Embed code (HTML) Copied Paste it where the badge should appear. ## Backlink value · what one new followed link from digipen.edu is worth to rankings [BV **$361** per link · level A · strength 60](https://bklink.uk/methodology?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report#bv) reading confidence **High, 83 out of 100** Reading confidence 83 / 100 - What we read 91 - Our model's certainty 74 - Its view of the pages 97 10 of 10 pages read had text · 21 links to other sites seen · posts Apr 2013 – May 2024 How much of digipen.edu we read, and how sure our model was about the kind of link it gives. Never higher than what we read. [The full reading](https://mxverify.uk/publications/digipen.edu#reading) **Relevance to the linked site moves it** **$180** unrelated ×0.5 **$451** same topic ×1.25 **By the kind of link it gives** - A editorial $410 - B guest, sponsored $205 - C neutralised $41 - D network $20 Priced on a blend of link types: A 80% · B 15% · C 5% → ×0.88. [How BV is worked out](https://mxverify.uk/publications/digipen.edu#bv-detail) · BV 2.9 · not a price anyone charges **[305.2K](https://mxverify.uk/publications/digipen.edu#traffic)** monthly visits +33% since Jul 2026 **[49.1K](https://mxverify.uk/publications/digipen.edu#traffic)** from organic search 16% of visits **[#119,272](https://mxverify.uk/publications/digipen.edu#traffic)** global rank **[1997](https://mxverify.uk/publications/registered/1990s)** domain registered expires Jul 2027 **[1.4 s](https://mxverify.uk/publications/digipen.edu#tech)** page load for real users (LCP) passes Core Web Vitals **[0%](https://mxverify.uk/publications/digipen.edu#reading)** of its own links nofollow in the articles we read More like it: [Editorial backlink sites](https://mxverify.uk/publications/level/a) · [Backlink sites worth $250 to $499 a link](https://mxverify.uk/publications/value/250-499) · [Technology write for us sites and tech blogs](https://mxverify.uk/publications/category/technology) · [Drupal websites](https://mxverify.uk/publications/cms/drupal) · [Old websites from the 90s](https://mxverify.uk/publications/registered/1990s) **Monthly visits** Jul 2026: 229.3K visits; Aug 2026: 174.2K visits; Sept 2026: 305.2K visits **Where visitors come from** Direct 61%, Organic search 16%, Social 14%, Email 4.3%, Referrals 2.7% - [Direct](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/direct) **61%** - [Organic search](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/organic-search) **16%** - [Social](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/social) **14%** - [Email](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/email) **4.3%** - [Referrals](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/referrals) **2.7%** - Other channels **2.4%** Organic search, in green, is the traffic BV prices on. **Top countries** - [United States](https://mxverify.uk/publications/audience/united-states) 44% - [Singapore](https://mxverify.uk/publications/audience/singapore) 38% - [Australia](https://mxverify.uk/publications/audience/australia) 2.1% - [Spain](https://mxverify.uk/publications/audience/spain) 1.9% - [Canada](https://mxverify.uk/publications/audience/canada) 1.2% - Other countries 13% ## Links to this site Link counts for digipen.edu are fetched at the next daily update, usually by 05:00 UTC, and shown here from then. ## Links placed here No link placed on digipen.edu 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 digipen.edu is nofollow. It is followed when the site's owner audits digipen.edu'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 **100%** of its links followed **21** links to other sites **10** articles read Followed 100% Fair sample Read 29 Oct 2026 · [the full reading](https://mxverify.uk/publications/digipen.edu#reading) ## Tech stack - [Built onDrupal](https://mxverify.uk/publications/cms/drupal) ### Page speed Chrome users, 28 days to 27 Oct 2026: LCP 1.4 s · INP 77 ms · CLS 0.00 — passes Core Web Vitals. Data from the Chrome UX Report (Google), CC BY 4.0. ## Domain and hosting - **Domain registered**: [17 April 1997](https://mxverify.uk/publications/registered/1990s) - **Registration expires**: 31 July 2027 - **Content category**: [technology](https://mxverify.uk/publications/category/technology) - **Server address**: 204.174.42.104 - **Hosting network**: LEVEL3 · AS3356 · US How to use this report 3 ways to use these figures - **Price check.** BV puts one new followed link from digipen.edu at $361 (level A), priced on a blend of link types (A 80% · B 15% · C 5%): $180 to an unrelated site (×0.5), $451 to a same-topic site (×1.25). A followed editorial link (level A) would be worth up to $410 before relevance. A quote far above $512 for a level A link pays for what BV does not measure. · [Backlink value](https://mxverify.uk/publications/digipen.edu#value) · [what this means](https://mxverify.uk/guide#use) - **Qualification and risk.** Its Site Strength is 60 / 100; the link it usually gives is mostly level A — counted (an editorial citation). In the 10 articles we read, 0% of the links to other sites are nofollow, sponsored or ugc. · [How BV is worked out](https://mxverify.uk/publications/digipen.edu#bv-detail) · [what this means](https://mxverify.uk/guide#levels) - **Traffic reality check.** Set any traffic claim beside the Sept 2026 estimate: 305.2K monthly visits, 16% from organic search (49.1K). Visits rose 33% from Jul 2026 to Sept 2026. Its top keyword by Visits (est.) is “krillion”, about 21.9K a month; the ad value beside it is the whole market's. · [Traffic in detail](https://mxverify.uk/publications/digipen.edu#traffic) · [what this means](https://mxverify.uk/guide#traffic) What each figure means, and what it cannot tell you: [How to read a site report](https://mxverify.uk/guide). Quick answers about digipen.edu 8 questions answered ### What is a link from digipen.edu 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 digipen.edu is worth about $361 (level A). Relevance moves it: $180 to an unrelated site, $451 to a same-topic site. In short: a link from digipen.edu is worth about $361 to rankings, up to $451 on the same topic. Source: [mxverify BV 2.9 methodology](https://mxverify.uk/methodology) ### Is a link from digipen.edu worth placing? That depends on the kind of link: by BV 2.9, a link from digipen.edu is worth $410 as an editorial citation (level A), $205 as a guest, sponsored or listed link (level B), $41 as a press-release, syndicated, profile or forum link (level C), $20 as a network link (level D), before relevance. A price far above $512 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](https://mxverify.uk/methodology) ### How does digipen.edu's BV compare with other sites? At about $361 a link, digipen.edu is in the “$250 to $499” value band, with 139 of the 3,822 sites valued on mxverify. 26 sites are in a higher band. In short: 26 of the 3,822 valued sites sit in a higher value band than digipen.edu. Source: mxverify's own directory, counted at the last daily update ### How much traffic does digipen.edu get? digipen.edu gets about 305.2K visits a month (Sept 2026), by a modelled estimate of all its visitors, not analytics measured on the site. 16% of them (49.1K) come from organic search. Visits rose 33% from Jul 2026 to Sept 2026. In short: digipen.edu draws about 305.2K visits a month, up 33% since Jul 2026. Source: [third-party traffic estimate, Sept 2026](https://mxverify.uk/publications/digipen.edu#evidence) ### Does digipen.edu pass Core Web Vitals? Yes: real Chrome users see digipen.edu's largest content load in 1.4 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: digipen.edu passes Core Web Vitals on real-user data. Source: [Chrome UX Report, 28 days to 27 Oct 2026](https://developer.chrome.com/docs/crux); [web.dev: Web Vitals](https://web.dev/articles/vitals) ### Does digipen.edu link out with nofollow? In the 10 articles we read, digipen.edu made 21 links to other sites, and 0% of them were nofollow, sponsored or ugc; the other 100% were followed. BV prices a nofollow link at level C (×0.1), whatever the site is otherwise worth. Source: [mxverify's reading of 10 articles, 29 Oct 2026](https://mxverify.uk/publications/digipen.edu#reading); [Google Search Central: qualify your outbound links](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/qualify-outbound-links) ### How old is digipen.edu? The domain digipen.edu was registered in 1997, 29 years ago. Source: the public registration record; [RFC 9083: RDAP JSON responses](https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9083/) ### Has digipen.edu been audited? No link placed on digipen.edu 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: digipen.edu's report is valued, not audited. How BV is worked out Site Strength 60 / 100 · level A · each factor and link type A followed editorial link from digipen.edu would be worth up to $410 under BV 2.9, before relevance: its Site Strength is 60 out of 100. The link it usually gives is level A, worth about $361 — and relevance to the site it points to moves that between $180 and $451. - **Site Strength**: **60** / 100 ([how Site Strength is worked out](https://mxverify.uk/methodology#reading-a-report)). Traffic: 49.1K estimated monthly organic visits, as of 29 October 2026. - **Worth up to**: $410 · before relevance — [how it is calculated](https://mxverify.uk/backlink-value#how) - **Usual link type**: Mostly level A — counted · A 80%, B 15%, C 5% → ×0.88 (each level's factor below, weighted by those shares) Read by Jev from our own reading of digipen.edu's homepage and 10 articles. No link placed here has been audited yet. - **Relevance to your site**: ×1 · neutral here ([range in an audit](https://mxverify.uk/methodology#reading-a-report)) - **BV score**: **$361** per link - **Domain registered**: 17 April 1997 · shown for context ([how age is used](https://mxverify.uk/methodology#reading-a-report)) ### A link from digipen.edu, by link type A link from digipen.edu at each level. [What each level means](https://mxverify.uk/methodology#link-levels). | Level | Factor | Value | | --- | --- | --- | | A — Counted | ×1 | $410 | | B — May be discounted | ×0.5 | $205 | | C — Usually neutralised | ×0.1 | $41 | | D — Network | ×0.05 | $20 | How digipen.edu links out: the full reading 10 articles read · each link counted Read by mxverify on 29 October 2026: the homepage and 10 articles (10 from across its sitemap). 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. Fair sample 21 links to other sites across 10 articles published Apr 2013 – May 2024. Strong takes six or more articles and thirty or more links, spread over at least two months where the articles are dated. **Links its articles make to other sites** - Followed 100% - Nofollow 0% - Sponsored 0% - User-generated (ugc) 0% 21 links to other sites across 10 articles, share buttons left out. **What its homepage offers** No guest-post, sponsored-post or advertising pages linked from the homepage. Runs on Drupal 11 (https://www.drupal.org). ### Articles read | Article | Published | Words | Links out | Followed | Says | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [Bait and Switch \| DigiPen](https://www.digipen.edu/showcase/student-animations/bait-and-switch?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | Jul 2014 | 183 | 0 | 0 | — | | [GDC Narrative Competition Gives Students a Chance to Network and Explore \| DigiPen](https://www.digipen.edu/showcase/news/gdc-narrative-competition-gives-students-chance-network-explore?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | Mar 2016 | 995 | 4 | 4 | — | | [DigiPen BFA Graduates Join Seattle Toymaker \| DigiPen](https://www.digipen.edu/showcase/news/bfa-graduates-join-seattle-toymaker?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | Jan 2014 | 978 | 1 | 1 | — | | [Congresswoman Suzan DelBene Visits Campus \| DigiPen](https://www.digipen.edu/showcase/news/congresswoman-suzan-delbene-visits-campus?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | Apr 2013 | 335 | 0 | 0 | — | | [Watch Now: DigiPen's Jazno Francoeur Animates an Avalanche \| DigiPen](https://www.digipen.edu/showcase/news/digipen-professor-jazno-francoeur-animates-an-avalanche?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | Apr 2020 | 265 | 0 | 0 | — | | [3D Artist Armando Panciotto Works the Landscape in Farming Simulator 22 \| DigiPen](https://www.digipen.edu/showcase/news/3d-artist-armando-panciotto-works-landscape-farming-simulator-22?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | Feb 2022 | 1,331 | 3 | 3 | — | | [Here Are the Winners of the 2024 Student Life Excellence Awards \| DigiPen](https://www.digipen.edu/showcase/news/here-are-the-winners-of-the-2024-student-life-excellence-awards?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | May 2024 | 616 | 0 | 0 | — | | [BS in Computer Science in Real-Time Interactive Simulation \| DigiPen](https://www.digipen.edu/academics/game-design-and-development-degrees/bs-in-computer-science-in-real-time-interactive-simulation?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | — | 505 | 2 | 2 | — | | [Incoming Student Supplies \| DigiPen](https://www.digipen.edu/student-portal/for-incoming-students/preparation/incoming-student-supplies?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | — | 187 | 10 | 10 | — | | [Internship for Credit \| DigiPen](https://www.digipen.edu/student-portal/student-services/career-and-alumni-relations/internship-for-credit?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | — | 382 | 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 94%, B 1.0%, C 5.0%, 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 80%, B 15%, C 5.0%, D 0%. Jev reads it as a reference work or institution (90%), established as a source (67%), and not selling guest, sponsored or paid posts (98%). Traffic in detail engagement, top keywords, AI assistants Modelled estimates for Sept 2026, as of 29 October 2026: site-wide, all visitors, not analytics measured on the site itself. - **#119,272** global rank - **#58,696** rank in US - **25%** bounce rate - **6.1** pages per visit - **5m 22s** time on site **Every channel** - [Organic search](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/organic-search) 16% - [Direct](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/direct) 61% - [Referrals](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/referrals) 2.7% - [Social](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/social) 14% - AI assistants 1.0% - [Email](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/email) 4.3% - [Paid](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/paid) 1.1% - Affiliate and other 0.2% 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.) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [krillion](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/krillion) | 2.2M | $0.00 | $0 | 21.9K | | [one in a krillion](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/one-in-a-krillion) | 77K | $0.00 | $0 | 3,580 | | [krillion unlimited](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/krillion-unlimited) | 72.8K | $0.00 | $0 | 2,330 | | [unitime](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/unitime) | 6,140 | $2.20 | $13.5K | 1,930 | | [krillion game](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/krillion-game) | 120.6K | $0.00 | $0 | 1,640 | 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 **3,113** visits in Sept 2026 — 1.0% of all visits. Each assistant's share of those visits, by month: [Claude](https://mxverify.uk/publications/ai/claude) [ChatGPT](https://mxverify.uk/publications/ai/chatgpt) Claude: Jul 2026 0%, Aug 2026 0%, Sept 2026 25%; ChatGPT: Jul 2026 100%, Aug 2026 6.7%, Sept 2026 7.0% | Assistant | Jul 2026 | Aug 2026 | Sept 2026 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Claude | 0% | 0% | 25% | | ChatGPT | 100% | 6.7% | 7.0% | Third-party traffic estimates. BV uses only the organic-search figure. Server and network 0 other publications on the server · 0 on the network Its domain was registered in 1997. mxverify looked up digipen.edu's address: no other publication in the directory runs on 204.174.42.104. 0 publications are on the same hosting network (LEVEL3, AS3356). Where each figure comes from 7 figures, their sources and dates | Figure | Source | What it covers | | --- | --- | --- | | [Backlink value](https://mxverify.uk/publications/digipen.edu#value) | BV 2.9 | Site Strength × link type; link type from our reading of the site | | [Links placed here](https://mxverify.uk/publications/digipen.edu#links) | bklink audits | None audited yet | | [How it links out](https://mxverify.uk/publications/digipen.edu#reading) | Read by mxverify | 21 links to other sites in 10 articles, published Apr 2013 – May 2024; read 29 Oct 2026 Fair sample | | [Traffic](https://mxverify.uk/publications/digipen.edu#traffic) | Third-party estimates | Modelled estimates for Sept 2026, site-wide and for all visitors, as of 29 Oct 2026 | | [Authority](https://mxverify.uk/publications/digipen.edu#value) | Ahrefs Domain Rating | Half of Site Strength, shown in steps of 5, as of 29 Oct 2026; the rating itself is not shown | | [Server and network](https://mxverify.uk/publications/digipen.edu#server) | mxverify's DNS and ASN lookup | 204.174.42.104 · LEVEL3 | | [Domain age](https://mxverify.uk/publications/digipen.edu#hosting) | Domain registry (RDAP) | Registered 17 Apr 1997 | Limitations: what this report does not show 2 stated plainly - No link on this publication has been audited yet, so nothing here describes how its links behave. - digipen.edu gives more than one kind of link (A 80% · B 15% · C 5%), so BV prices a blend of them: an editorial link there would be worth $410 and a guest or sponsored one $205, before relevance. 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 29 October 2026 --- Source: mxverify, "Backlink Value & Traffic Report for digipen.edu", https://mxverify.uk/publications/digipen.edu (retrieved 2026-10-29). How every figure is worked out: https://mxverify.uk/methodology