--- title: "gamespot.com Backlink Value & Traffic Report" url: https://mxverify.uk/publications/gamespot.com description: "gamespot.com: a followed link from it is worth $201 by BV 2.9 (link type A, capped by nofollow). About 28.5M visits a month, 58% organic." site: mxverify generated: 2026-11-13T05:10:53.459Z --- # Backlink value and traffic report for gamespot.com **In short:** A new link from gamespot.com is worth about $201 to rankings by BV 2.9 (level A · nofollow, Site Strength 80 of 100). It gets about 28.5M visits a month, 58% from organic search, down 11% since Aug 2026. No link placed on it has been audited. First recorded 12 November 2026 · Last updated 12 November 2026 · [Visit gamespot.com](https://gamespot.com/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) [Compare](https://mxverify.uk/compare/gamespot.com#add) Show gamespot.com's BV badge on your site The badge shows what a link from gamespot.com 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 gamespot.com is worth to rankings [BV **$201** per link · level A · nofollow · strength 80](https://bklink.uk/methodology?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report#bv) reading confidence **Fair, 62 out of 100** Reading confidence 62 / 100 - What we read 69 - Our model's certainty 88 - Its view of the pages 78 5 of 5 pages read had text · 31 links to other sites seen · posts Sept 2026 – Nov 2026 How much of gamespot.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](https://mxverify.uk/publications/gamespot.com#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. Priced 13 Nov 2026 · pages read 12 Nov 2026. **Relevance to the linked site moves it** **$100** unrelated ×0.5 **$251** same topic ×1.25 **By the kind of link it gives** - A editorial $963 - B guest, sponsored $482 - C neutralised $96 - D network $48 Capped by nofollow: priced at ×0.21, not ×1. [How BV is worked out](https://mxverify.uk/publications/gamespot.com#bv-detail) · BV 2.9 **[28.5M](https://mxverify.uk/publications/gamespot.com#traffic)** monthly visits −11% since Aug 2026 **[16.6M](https://mxverify.uk/publications/gamespot.com#traffic)** from organic search 58% of visits **[136,746](https://mxverify.uk/publications/gamespot.com#links-in)** sites link to it 28,410 of them nofollow **[1996](https://mxverify.uk/publications/registered/1990s)** domain registered expires Jan 2028 **[1.2 s](https://mxverify.uk/publications/gamespot.com#tech)** page load for real users (LCP) does not pass Core Web Vitals **[$59K–$240K](https://mxverify.uk/publications/gamespot.com#ad-revenue)** potential display-ad revenue a month · estimate ## How it compares · among 127 gaming sites on mxverify - More monthly visits than 92% of the 127 gaming sites on mxverify. - 58% of its visits come from organic search; the median gaming site gets 42%. - AI assistants send 0.3% of its visits, about twice the 0.2% the median gaming site gets. - A new followed link from it is worth more than a link from 84% of gaming sites. - Priced at level C, like 41% of gaming sites; 3% are level A. Peers are the most specific group of at least 20 sites on mxverify it belongs to: its topic, its category or its kind of site. Figures are third-party traffic estimates and mxverify's BV, as elsewhere on this report. **Monthly visits** Aug 2026: 31.9M visits; Sept 2026: 30.6M visits; Oct 2026: 28.5M visits **Where visitors come from** Organic search 58%, Direct 28%, Social 7.2%, Referrals 5.5%, Email 0.5% - [Organic search](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/organic-search) **58%** - [Direct](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/direct) **28%** - [Social](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/social) **7.2%** - [Referrals](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/referrals) **5.5%** - [Email](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/email) **0.5%** Organic search, in green, is the traffic BV prices on. **Top countries** - [United States](https://mxverify.uk/publications/audience/united-states) 42% - [United Kingdom](https://mxverify.uk/publications/audience/united-kingdom) 6.2% - [Canada](https://mxverify.uk/publications/audience/canada) 5.1% - [Germany](https://mxverify.uk/publications/audience/germany) 4.2% - [Russia](https://mxverify.uk/publications/audience/russia) 3.7% - Other countries 38% ## Where it ranks on Google ### Cited in AI Overview 1 keyword - [call of duty](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/call-of-duty) Google, United States, English; refreshed monthly by mxverify. Only the keywords mxverify tracks are read, so gamespot.com may rank for many others. ## Links to this site Links other sites have made to gamespot.com, from outside link indexes: not the links placed on it that bklink audits. **136,746** websites link to it 28,410 of them with nofollow links **12.2M** links in all, from those websites about 89 per website · first seen 2019 **21** spam score of its links 0–100, the linking pages' average **48,839** IP addresses they link from 21,718 subnets **Where the links sit:** 31% in the article or main content of the linking page, 8.4% in its header, menu, sidebar or footer · 52% in no page section the index could name, the rest in other sections; of the 11.4M links it sorted by where they sit **Pages in Google:** about 11,600,000 · the count Google gives for a site: search, its own estimate, which can be far off either way What Google shows for site:gamespot.com — the first 10 pages 1. [Characters](https://comicvine.gamespot.com/characters/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) comicvine.gamespot.com/characters/ 2. [Grab an API key](https://comicvine.gamespot.com/api/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) comicvine.gamespot.com/api/ 3. [The History Of Newt Scamander | Fantastic Beasts](http://l.gamespot.com/6015E8OLv?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) l.gamespot.com/6015E8OLv · Nov 13, 2018 4. [Gaming & Entertainment News](https://www.gamespot.com/category/news/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) www.gamespot.com/category/news/ 5. [Game Guides & Walkthroughs](https://www.gamespot.com/category/guides/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) www.gamespot.com/category/guides/ 6. [SionistheBoss' profile](https://comicvine.gamespot.com/profile/sionistheboss/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) comicvine.gamespot.com/profile/sionistheboss/ 7. [Fortnite](https://www.gamespot.com/games/fortnite/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) www.gamespot.com/games/fortnite/ 8. [Spock (Character)](https://comicvine.gamespot.com/spock/4005-20079/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) comicvine.gamespot.com/spock/4005-20079/ · Feb 27, 2026 9. [Cyclops (Character)](https://comicvine.gamespot.com/cyclops/4005-1459/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) comicvine.gamespot.com/cyclops/4005-1459/ · Sep 26, 2024 10. [L (Character) - Comic Vine](https://comicvine.gamespot.com/l/4005-49256/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) comicvine.gamespot.com/l/4005-49256/ Sources: link counts and spam score from a third-party backlink index, read 12 November 2026; the chart grows by one reading a month; page count and pages from a Google site: search, 12 November 2026. ## Links placed here No link placed on gamespot.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 gamespot.com is nofollow. It is followed when the site's owner audits gamespot.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 **13%** of its links followed **31** links to other sites **5** articles read Followed 13% Nofollow 87% Fair sample Read 12 Nov 2026 · [the full reading](https://mxverify.uk/publications/gamespot.com#reading) ## Domain and hosting - **Domain registered**: [13 January 1996](https://mxverify.uk/publications/registered/1990s) - **Registration expires**: 12 January 2028 - **Record last changed**: 15 March 2024 - **Content category**: [gaming](https://mxverify.uk/publications/category/gaming) - **Server address**: 162.159.142.170 · CDN edge, shared by unrelated sites - **Hosting network**: Cloudflare (CDN) · AS13335 · US ## Tech stack - [Built onWordPress](https://mxverify.uk/publications/cms/wordpress) - [Ad loadSome ads · 2 ad networks](https://mxverify.uk/publications/ads/some) ### Page speed Chrome users, 28 days to 9 Nov 2026: LCP 1.2 s · INP 79 ms · CLS 0.14 — does not pass Core Web Vitals. Data from the Chrome UX Report (Google), CC BY 4.0. Devices: 72% phone · 27% desktop · 1% tablet — share of Chrome page loads, same 28 days. Sources: ad load from a web technology index, 12 Nov 2026. ## Similar sites Matched on the subject the two sites share. Never a site on the same server or network. - [gameinformer.com BV $433 · level A A Gaming](https://mxverify.uk/publications/gameinformer.com) - [polygon.com BV $625 · level B B Gaming](https://mxverify.uk/publications/polygon.com) - [videogameschronicle.com BV $418 · level B B Gaming](https://mxverify.uk/publications/videogameschronicle.com) - [nme.com BV $597 · level A A Entertainment and celebrity](https://mxverify.uk/publications/nme.com) - [indiedb.com BV $185 · level B B Gaming](https://mxverify.uk/publications/indiedb.com) - [kotaku.com BV $522 · level B B Gaming](https://mxverify.uk/publications/kotaku.com) More like it: [Forum, profile and PR backlink sites](https://mxverify.uk/publications/level/c) · [Backlink sites worth $100 to $249 a link](https://mxverify.uk/publications/value/100-249) · [Gaming blogs and game sites](https://mxverify.uk/publications/category/gaming) · [WordPress websites](https://mxverify.uk/publications/cms/wordpress) · [Old websites from the 90s](https://mxverify.uk/publications/registered/1990s) How to use this report 3 ways to use these figures - **Price check.** BV puts a new link from gamespot.com at $201 (level A · nofollow): $100 to an unrelated site (×0.5), $251 to a same-topic site (×1.25). A followed one would be worth $963 before relevance. A quote far above $1,204 for a followed level A link pays for what BV does not measure. · [Backlink value](https://mxverify.uk/publications/gamespot.com#value) · [what this means](https://mxverify.uk/guide#use) - **Qualification and risk.** Its Site Strength is 80 / 100; the link it usually gives is level A — counted (an editorial citation), with nofollow on 87% of its links (in the 5 articles we read). The spam score of its links is 21 (0–100, the linking pages' average), not gamespot.com's own. · [How BV is worked out](https://mxverify.uk/publications/gamespot.com#bv-detail) · [what this means](https://mxverify.uk/guide#levels) - **Traffic reality check.** Set any traffic claim beside the Oct 2026 estimate: 28.5M monthly visits, 58% from organic search (16.6M). Visits fell 11% from Aug 2026 to Oct 2026. Its top keyword by Visits (est.) is “resident evil movie”, about 193.1K a month; the ad value beside it is the whole market's. · [Traffic in detail](https://mxverify.uk/publications/gamespot.com#traffic) · [what this means](https://mxverify.uk/guide#traffic) Quick answers about gamespot.com 9 questions answered ### What is a link from gamespot.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 link from gamespot.com is worth about $201 (level A · nofollow). Relevance moves it: $100 to an unrelated site, $251 to a same-topic site. In short: a link from gamespot.com is worth about $201 to rankings, up to $251 on the same topic. Source: [mxverify BV 2.9 methodology](https://mxverify.uk/methodology) ### Is a link from gamespot.com worth placing? That depends on the kind of link: by BV 2.9, a link from gamespot.com is worth $963 as an editorial citation (level A), $482 as a guest, sponsored or listed link (level B), $96 as a press-release, syndicated, profile or forum link (level C), $48 as a network link (level D), before relevance. A price far above $1,204 for a followed 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 gamespot.com's BV compare with other sites? At about $201 a link, gamespot.com is in the “$100 to $249” value band, with 380 of the 4,532 sites valued on mxverify. 230 sites are in a higher band. In short: 230 of the 4,532 valued sites sit in a higher value band than gamespot.com. Source: mxverify's own directory, counted at the last daily update ### How much traffic does gamespot.com get? gamespot.com gets about 28.5M visits a month (Oct 2026), by a modelled estimate of all its visitors, not analytics measured on the site. 58% of them (16.6M) come from organic search. Visits fell 11% from Aug 2026 to Oct 2026. In short: gamespot.com draws about 28.5M visits a month, down 11% since Aug 2026. Source: [third-party traffic estimate, Oct 2026](https://mxverify.uk/publications/gamespot.com#evidence) ### Does gamespot.com pass Core Web Vitals? No: real Chrome users see gamespot.com's largest content load in 1.2 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: gamespot.com does not pass Core Web Vitals on real-user data. Source: [Chrome UX Report, 28 days to 9 Nov 2026](https://developer.chrome.com/docs/crux); [web.dev: Web Vitals](https://web.dev/articles/vitals) ### Does gamespot.com link out with nofollow? In the 5 articles we read, gamespot.com made 31 links to other sites, and 87% of them were nofollow, sponsored or ugc; the other 13% were followed. In short: about 87% of gamespot.com's outbound links are nofollow, so a new link placed there may be too. Source: [mxverify's reading of 5 articles, 12 Nov 2026](https://mxverify.uk/publications/gamespot.com#reading); [Google Search Central: qualify your outbound links](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/qualify-outbound-links) ### How old is gamespot.com? The domain gamespot.com was registered in 1996, 30 years ago. Source: the public registration record; [RFC 9083: RDAP JSON responses](https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9083/) ### How many sites link to gamespot.com? 136,746 websites link to gamespot.com, each counted once. 28,410 of them (21%) link with nofollow. Source: [third-party backlink index, Nov 2026](https://mxverify.uk/publications/gamespot.com#evidence) ### Has gamespot.com been audited? No link placed on gamespot.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: gamespot.com's report is valued, not audited. How BV is worked out Site Strength 80 / 100 · level A · nofollow · each factor and link type A followed editorial link from gamespot.com would be worth up to $963 under BV 2.9, before relevance: its Site Strength is 80 out of 100. The link it usually gives is level A (an editorial citation), but 87% of its links are nofollow, so it is worth about $201 — and relevance to the site it points to moves that between $100 and $251. - **Site Strength**: **80** / 100 ([how Site Strength is worked out](https://mxverify.uk/methodology#reading-a-report)). Traffic: 16.6M estimated monthly organic visits, as of 12 November 2026. - **Worth up to**: $963 · before relevance — [how it is calculated](https://mxverify.uk/backlink-value#how) - **Usual link type**: Level A — counted · **nofollow** on 87% of its links → ×0.21 Read by Jev from our own reading of gamespot.com's homepage and 5 articles; 87% of the links those articles make to other sites are nofollow, sponsored or ugc, and BV caps that share of a new link at C. 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**: **$201** per link - **Domain registered**: 13 January 1996 · shown for context ([how age is used](https://mxverify.uk/methodology#reading-a-report)) ### A link from gamespot.com, by link type A link from gamespot.com at each level. [What each level means](https://mxverify.uk/methodology#link-levels). | Level | Factor | Value | | --- | --- | --- | | A — Counted · nofollow here | ×1 | $963 | | B — May be discounted | ×0.5 | $482 | | C — Usually neutralised | ×0.1 | $96 | | D — Network | ×0.05 | $48 | 87% of gamespot.com's links are nofollow, so a new link from it — an editorial citation — is priced at ×0.21: $201, where a followed one would be worth $963. BV prices the ranking value a link passes, and a nofollow link passes little. How gamespot.com links out: the full reading 5 articles read · each link counted Read by mxverify on 12 November 2026: the homepage and 5 articles (10 linked from its homepage). Fair sample 31 links to other sites across 5 articles published Sept 2026 – Nov 2026. **Links its articles make to other sites** - Followed 13% - Nofollow 87% - Sponsored 0% - User-generated (ugc) 0% 31 links to other sites across 5 articles, share buttons left out. BV counts 87% of a new link's weight at most C, because that share of the site's own links is nofollow, sponsored or ugc. **What its homepage offers** No guest-post, sponsored-post or advertising pages linked from the homepage. Runs on WordPress. ### Articles read | Article | Published | Words | Links out | Followed | Says | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [Phantom Blade Zero - Guides Hub - GameSpot](https://www.gamespot.com/articles/phantom-blade-zero-guides-hub/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | Oct 2026 | 665 | 1 | 1 | — | | [The Blood Of Dawnwalker - Guides Hub - GameSpot](https://www.gamespot.com/articles/the-blood-of-dawnwalker-guides-hub/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | Sept 2026 | 971 | 1 | 1 | — | | [Best WoW: Forever Addons To Download In 2026 - GameSpot](https://www.gamespot.com/articles/best-wow-forever-addons-to-download-in-2026/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | Nov 2026 | 2,159 | 27 | 0 | — | | [The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time Review - A Masterpiece Is Ageless - GameSpot](https://www.gamespot.com/reviews/the-zelda-ocarina-of-time-remake-shows-that-a-masterpiece-is-ageless/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | Nov 2026 | 2,115 | 0 | 0 | — | | [Before GTA Online, GTA 4 Free Mode Was The Best Playground - GameSpot](https://www.gamespot.com/articles/before-gta-online-gta-4-free-mode-was-the-best-playground/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | Nov 2026 | 853 | 2 | 2 | — | Jev, the model that judges every link in a bklink audit, reads these pages as a site whose links are mostly level **A** — A 97%, B 1.0%, 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 12%, B 0.7%, C 86%, D 1.0%. Jev reads it as a publication (99%), major as a source (64%), and not selling guest, sponsored or paid posts (98%). Traffic in detail engagement, top keywords, AI assistants · AI crawler access Modelled estimates for Oct 2026, as of 12 November 2026: site-wide, all visitors, not analytics measured on the site itself. - **#1,951** global rank - **#849** rank in US - **60%** bounce rate - **3.3** pages per visit - **2m 52s** time on site **Every channel** - [Organic search](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/organic-search) 58% - [Direct](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/direct) 28% - [Referrals](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/referrals) 5.5% - [Social](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/social) 7.2% - AI assistants 0.3% - [Email](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/email) 0.5% - [Paid](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/paid) 0.1% - Affiliate and other 0% 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.) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [resident evil movie](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/resident-evil-movie) | 3.4M | $0.51 | $1.7M | 193.1K | | [gta 6](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/gta-6) | 11.1M | $0.21 | $2.3M | 79.8K | | [gamespot](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/gamespot) | 135K | $1.20 | $162K | 78.3K | | [gamefaqs](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/gamefaqs) | 90.5K | $1.18 | $106.8K | 37.1K | | [weather](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/weather) | 506M | $1.46 | $738.8M | 18.5K | 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 **91.3K** visits in Oct 2026 — 0.3% of all visits. Each assistant's share of those visits, by month: [ChatGPT](https://mxverify.uk/publications/ai/chatgpt) [Gemini](https://mxverify.uk/publications/ai/gemini) [Perplexity](https://mxverify.uk/publications/ai/perplexity) ChatGPT: Aug 2026 86%, Sept 2026 56%, Oct 2026 19%; Gemini: Aug 2026 11%, Sept 2026 4.8%, Oct 2026 11%; Perplexity: Aug 2026 0.5%, Sept 2026 0.5%, Oct 2026 0.4% | Assistant | Aug 2026 | Sept 2026 | Oct 2026 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | ChatGPT | 86% | 56% | 19% | | Gemini | 11% | 4.8% | 11% | | Perplexity | 0.5% | 0.5% | 0.4% | **AI crawler access** gamespot.com's robots.txt asks 7 of the 10 AI crawlers below not to read the site, all of them ones that collect training data. | 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 | ✕Disallowed | | Anthropic ClaudeBot | ✕Disallowed | | Google Google-Extended | ✕Disallowed | | Apple Applebot-Extended | ✕Disallowed | | Meta Meta-ExternalAgent | ✕Disallowed | | ByteDance Bytespider | ✕Disallowed | | Common Crawl CCBot | ✕Disallowed | Content signals in the file: search yes · AI training no. Read from gamespot.com/robots.txt on 12 November 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. Potential display-ad revenue $59,000–$240,000 a month (estimate) · what it rests on **$59,000–$240,000** a month, estimated - 94.4M pageviews a month: 28.5M visits × 3.3 pages per visit (Oct 2026) - Niche: Gaming, from its content category · entertainment and news page RPM $1–$4 per 1,000 pageviews - 54% of visits from the US, the UK, Canada and Australia; other countries counted at 20% of the rate An estimate from modelled traffic and niche benchmarks, not what the site earns. It does not know which ad networks the site uses, how viewable its ads are or how many a page carries. Not the keyword table's ad value, which is the whole market's search-ad spend. Worked out Nov 2026; worked out again on the 10th of each month. [How it is worked out](https://mxverify.uk/guide#ad-revenue) Server and network a CDN edge, shared by unrelated sites Its domain was registered in 1996. mxverify looked up gamespot.com'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 9 figures, their sources and dates | Figure | Source | What it covers | | --- | --- | --- | | [Backlink value](https://mxverify.uk/publications/gamespot.com#value) | BV 2.9 | Site Strength × link type; link type from our reading of the site | | [Links placed here](https://mxverify.uk/publications/gamespot.com#links) | bklink audits | None audited yet | | [How it links out](https://mxverify.uk/publications/gamespot.com#reading) | Read by mxverify | 31 links to other sites in 5 articles, published Sept 2026 – Nov 2026; read 12 Nov 2026 Fair sample | | [Traffic](https://mxverify.uk/publications/gamespot.com#traffic) | Third-party estimates | Modelled estimates for Oct 2026, site-wide and for all visitors, as of 12 Nov 2026 | | [Links to this site](https://mxverify.uk/publications/gamespot.com#links-in) | Third-party backlink index | 136,746 linking sites, read 12 Nov 2026; one reading a month | | [Authority](https://mxverify.uk/publications/gamespot.com#value) | Ahrefs Domain Rating | Half of Site Strength, shown in steps of 5, as of 13 Nov 2026; the rating itself is not shown | | [Server and network](https://mxverify.uk/publications/gamespot.com#server) | mxverify's DNS and ASN lookup | 162.159.142.170 · Cloudflare (CDN) · a CDN edge, shared by unrelated sites | | [Domain age](https://mxverify.uk/publications/gamespot.com#hosting) | Domain registry (RDAP) | Registered 13 Jan 1996 | | [Potential display-ad revenue](https://mxverify.uk/publications/gamespot.com#ad-revenue) | mxverify estimate | Traffic estimate's pageviews for Oct 2026 × the entertainment and news page RPM benchmark × country factor, worked out Nov 2026; not the site's earnings | Limitations: what this report does not show 3 stated plainly - 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. - gamespot.com's visits fell 11% 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. What each figure means: [How to read a site report](https://mxverify.uk/guide). What every report shares, said once: [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 12 November 2026 --- Source: mxverify, "gamespot.com Backlink Value & Traffic Report", https://mxverify.uk/publications/gamespot.com (retrieved 2026-11-13). How every figure is worked out: https://mxverify.uk/methodology