Backlink value and traffic report for hackaday.io

• Price check. BV puts one new followed link from hackaday.io at $69 (level C), priced on a blend of link types (A 1% · B 1% · C 98%): $35 to an unrelated site (×0.5), $86 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 $79 for a level C link pays for what BV does not measure. · Backlink value · what this means
• Qualification and risk. Its Site Strength is 70 / 100; the link it usually gives is mostly level C — usually neutralised (a press-release, syndicated, profile or forum link). In the 1 article we read, 63% of the links to other sites are nofollow, sponsored or ugc. · How BV is worked out · what this means
• Traffic reality check. Set any traffic claim beside the Sept 2026 estimate: 613.8K monthly visits, 40% from organic search (247.2K). Visits fell 1.1% from Jul 2026 to Sept 2026. Its top keyword by Visits (est.) is “hackaday”, about 1,120 a month; the ad value beside it is the whole market's. · Traffic in detail · what this means
• AI assistant visits. 3.5% of its visits in Sept 2026 came from AI assistants' answers, about 21.8K (visits, not citations); ChatGPT sent the most in Sept 2026, 94% of them. The split moved a lot between months (ChatGPT from 42% in Jul 2026 to 74% in Aug 2026): read it as a snapshot, not a trend. · AI assistants · what this means

What each figure means, and what it cannot tell you: How to read a site report.

A followed editorial link from hackaday.io would be worth up to $628 under BV 2.8, before relevance: its Site Strength is 70 out of 100. The link it usually gives is level C, worth about $69 — and relevance to the site it points to moves that between $35 and $86.

Site Strength

70 / 100, in steps of 5 · half the site's authority rating, half its organic traffic on a log scale; 100 is the strongest site on the web. Traffic: 247.2K estimated monthly organic visits, as of 22 October 2026.

Worth up to

$628 · a followed editorial link at this strength, before relevance (×0.5 unrelated to ×1.25 same topic) — see how it is calculated

Usual link type

Mostly level C — usually neutralised · A 1%, B 1%, C 98% → ×0.11 (each level's factor below, weighted by those shares)
Read by Jev from our own reading of hackaday.io's homepage and 1 article; 63% 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; in an audit it runs from ×0.5 (unrelated) to ×1.25 (same topic)

BV score

$69 per link

Domain registered

18 February 2014 · shown for context; BV does not price on age, but a domain registered in the last 30 days is never priced as not in Google

A link from hackaday.io, 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.

No other publication in the directory runs on 198.54.96.155. 0 publications are on the same hosting network (SUPPLYFRAME, AS62698).

• No link on this publication has been audited yet, so nothing here describes how its links behave.
• A link that is followed is not necessarily a link search engines value; this record does not measure rankings or traffic.
• The BV score is what one new followed link from hackaday.io is worth to rankings, from its Site Strength and the kind of link on offer. It is not a price, and it does not predict what a link will do for a particular site: relevance to that site moves it between half and one and a quarter times.
• Traffic figures come from a third-party traffic source, named with its date in the evidence box above; no one outside a site sees its analytics.
• hackaday.io gives more than one kind of link (A 1% · B 1% · C 98%), so BV prices a blend of them: an editorial link there would be worth $628 and a guest or sponsored one $314, before relevance.
• The figures for how hackaday.io links out rest on 1 article, too few to describe the whole site.