--- title: "Backlink Value & Traffic Report for hackaday.io" url: https://mxverify.uk/publications/hackaday.io description: "A followed link from hackaday.io is worth $69 by BV 2.8 (link type C). Not yet audited. Hosted on SUPPLYFRAME (US). Domain registered 2014." site: mxverify generated: 2026-10-22T08:43:44.849Z --- mxverify · valued # Backlink value and traffic report for hackaday.io Its domain was registered in 2014. **In short:** A new followed link from hackaday.io is worth about $69 to rankings by BV 2.8 (level C, Site Strength 70 of 100); BV is an estimate, not a price anyone charges. It gets about 613.8K visits a month, 40% from organic search, down 1.1% since Jul 2026. No link placed on it has been audited. Last updated 22 October 2026 · [Visit hackaday.io](https://hackaday.io/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) [Compare](https://mxverify.uk/compare/hackaday.io#add) Show hackaday.io's BV badge on your site The badge shows what a link from hackaday.io 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. It is a plain link and image: no script runs on your site. ## Backlink value · what one new followed link from hackaday.io is worth to rankings [BV **$69** per link · level C · strength 70](https://bklink.uk/methodology?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report#bv) **Relevance to the linked site moves it** **$35** unrelated ×0.5 **$86** same topic ×1.25 **By the kind of link it gives** - A editorial $628 - B guest, sponsored $314 - C neutralised $63 - D network $31 Priced on a blend of link types: A 1% · B 1% · C 98% → ×0.11. [How BV is worked out](https://mxverify.uk/publications/hackaday.io#bv-detail) · BV 2.8 · not a price anyone charges **613.8K** monthly visits −1.1% since Jul 2026 **247.2K** from organic search 40% of visits **#71,093** global rank **[2014](https://mxverify.uk/publications/registered/2010s)** domain registered expires Feb 2029 **[2.1 s](https://mxverify.uk/publications/hackaday.io#tech)** page load for real users (LCP) passes Core Web Vitals **[63%](https://mxverify.uk/publications/hackaday.io#reading)** of its own links nofollow in the articles we read More like it: [Forum, profile and PR backlink sites](https://mxverify.uk/publications/level/c) · [Backlink sites worth $50 to $99 a link](https://mxverify.uk/publications/value/50-99) · [2010s websites](https://mxverify.uk/publications/registered/2010s) **Monthly visits** Jul 2026: 621K visits; Aug 2026: 635.4K visits; Sept 2026: 613.8K visits **Where visitors come from** Organic search 40%, Direct 32%, Referrals 11%, Social 9.7%, AI assistants 3.5% - Organic search **40%** - Direct **32%** - Referrals **11%** - Social **9.7%** - AI assistants **3.5%** - Other channels **3.1%** Organic search, in green, is the traffic BV prices on. **Top countries** - United States 23% - Canada 5.3% - Italy 4.5% - India 4.5% - United Kingdom 4.3% - Other countries 58% ## Links to this site Link counts for hackaday.io are fetched at the next daily update, usually by 05:00 UTC, and shown here from then. ## Links placed here No link placed on hackaday.io 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 hackaday.io is nofollow. It is followed only when the site's owner audits hackaday.io's own backlinks on bklink.uk, chooses to publish it and proves the site is theirs — for 90 days from each audit. [When a link here is followed](https://mxverify.uk/methodology#followed-links) ## How it links out **38%** of its links followed **8** links to other sites **1** article read Followed 38% Nofollow 63% Thin sample Read 22 Oct 2026 · [the full reading](https://mxverify.uk/publications/hackaday.io#reading) ## Tech stack hackaday.io's homepage has not been read yet; every site with a report is read within a few days. ### Page speed Chrome users, 28 days to 19 Oct 2026: LCP 2.1 s · INP 58 ms · CLS 0.01 — passes Core Web Vitals. Source: Chrome UX Report (Google), CC BY 4.0. ## Domain and hosting - **Domain registered**: [18 February 2014](https://mxverify.uk/publications/registered/2010s) - **Registration expires**: 18 February 2029 - **Server address**: 198.54.96.155 - **Hosting network**: SUPPLYFRAME · AS62698 · US How to use this report 4 ways to use these figures - **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](https://mxverify.uk/publications/hackaday.io#value) · [what this means](https://mxverify.uk/guide#use) - **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](https://mxverify.uk/publications/hackaday.io#bv-detail) · [what this means](https://mxverify.uk/guide#levels) - **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](https://mxverify.uk/publications/hackaday.io#traffic) · [what this means](https://mxverify.uk/guide#traffic) - **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](https://mxverify.uk/publications/hackaday.io#ai-assistants) · [what this means](https://mxverify.uk/guide#ai) What each figure means, and what it cannot tell you: [How to read a site report](https://mxverify.uk/guide). Quick answers about hackaday.io 8 questions answered ### What is a link from hackaday.io worth? BV, mxverify's backlink value, is an estimate of what one new followed link from a site is worth to rankings: by BV 2.8, a new followed link from hackaday.io is worth about $69 (level C). Relevance moves it: $35 to an unrelated site, $86 to a same-topic site. BV is an estimate of ranking value, not a price anyone charges. In short: a link from hackaday.io is worth about $69 to rankings, up to $86 on the same topic. Source: [mxverify BV 2.8 methodology](https://mxverify.uk/methodology) ### Is a link from hackaday.io worth placing? That depends on the kind of link: by BV 2.8, a link from hackaday.io 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 $79 for a level C link pays for something BV does not measure, such as the site's own readers. BV is an estimate of ranking value, not a verdict on the site or a price anyone charges. Source: [mxverify BV 2.8 methodology](https://mxverify.uk/methodology) ### How does hackaday.io's BV compare with other sites? At about $69 a link, hackaday.io is in the “$50 to $99” value band, with 204 of the 3,466 sites valued on mxverify. 346 sites are in a higher band. The counts are mxverify's own, taken from its directory at the last daily update. In short: 346 of the 3,466 valued sites sit in a higher value band than hackaday.io. Source: mxverify's own directory, counted at the last daily update ### How much traffic does hackaday.io get? hackaday.io gets about 613.8K visits a month (Sept 2026), by a modelled estimate of all its visitors, not analytics measured on the site. 40% of them (247.2K) come from organic search. Visits fell 1.1% from Jul 2026 to Sept 2026. In short: hackaday.io draws about 613.8K visits a month, down 1.1% since Jul 2026. Source: [third-party traffic estimate, Sept 2026](https://mxverify.uk/publications/hackaday.io#evidence) ### Does hackaday.io pass Core Web Vitals? Yes: real Chrome users see hackaday.io's largest content load in 2.1 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: hackaday.io passes Core Web Vitals on real-user data. Source: [Chrome UX Report, 28 days to 19 Oct 2026](https://developer.chrome.com/docs/crux); [web.dev: Web Vitals](https://web.dev/articles/vitals) ### Does hackaday.io link out with nofollow? In the 1 article we read, hackaday.io made 8 links to other sites, and 63% of them were nofollow, sponsored or ugc; the other 37% were followed. BV prices a nofollow link at level C (×0.1), whatever the site is otherwise worth. In short: about 63% of hackaday.io's outbound links are nofollow, so a new link placed there may be too. Source: [mxverify's reading of 1 article, 22 Oct 2026](https://mxverify.uk/publications/hackaday.io#reading); [Google Search Central: qualify your outbound links](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/qualify-outbound-links) ### How old is hackaday.io? The domain hackaday.io was registered in 2014, 12 years ago. Domain age is a fact from the registry record, not a measure of a site's quality. Source: the public registration record; [RFC 9083: RDAP JSON responses](https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9083/) ### Has hackaday.io been audited? No link placed on hackaday.io 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: hackaday.io's report is valued, not audited. How BV is worked out Site Strength 70 / 100 · level C · each factor and link type 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](https://mxverify.uk/backlink-value#how) - **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. | Level | What it is | Factor | Value | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | A — Counted | An editorial citation: the site linked because it is useful to its readers. | ×1 | $628 | | B — May be discounted | A guest, sponsored or placed article, or a product or tool directory listing. | ×0.5 | $314 | | C — Usually neutralised | A press release or syndicated copy, a forum post, profile, footer or sidebar link — and any nofollow link. | ×0.1 | $63 | | D — Network | A site on a server whose sites show footprints of one owner, a link farm, or machine-generated pages. | ×0.05 | $31 | How hackaday.io links out: the full reading 1 article read · each link counted Read by mxverify on 22 October 2026: the homepage and 1 article (1 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 8 links to other sites across 1 article. 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 38% - Nofollow 63% - Sponsored 0% - User-generated (ugc) 0% 8 links to other sites across 1 article, share buttons left out. BV counts 63% 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. ### Articles read | Article | Words | Links out | Followed | Says | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [PowerPD — ESP32 USB-C PD/PPS Bench Power Supply \| Hackaday.io](https://hackaday.io/project/205791-powerpd-esp32-usb-c-pdpps-bench-power-supply?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | 1,590 | 8 | 3 | — | Jev, the model that judges every link in a bklink audit, reads these pages as a site whose links are mostly level **A** — A 67%, B 11%, C 22%, 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 0.6%, B 1.2%, C 98%, D 0%. Jev reads it as a platform where users post (94%), established as a source (49%), and not selling guest, sponsored or paid posts (97%). Traffic in detail engagement, top keywords, AI assistants Modelled estimates for Sept 2026, as of 22 October 2026: site-wide, all visitors, not analytics measured on the site itself. - **#71,093** global rank - **#56,529** rank in US - **50%** bounce rate - **3.7** pages per visit - **1m 15s** time on site **Every channel** - Organic search 40% - Direct 32% - Referrals 11% - Social 9.7% - AI assistants 3.5% - Email 1.8% - Paid 1.3% - 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.) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [hackaday](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/hackaday) | 6,750 | $0.00 | $0 | 1,120 | | [hackaday.io](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/hackaday-io) | 820 | $0.00 | $0 | 1,040 | | [songspot](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/songspot) | 1.2M | $0.00 | $0 | 620 | | [dmg gameboy clock diy](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/dmg-gameboy-clock-diy) | 450 | $0.00 | $0 | 390 | | [mcgift.giftcardmall](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/mcgift-giftcardmall) | 4,280 | $2.85 | $12.2K | 310 | 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 **21.8K** visits in Sept 2026 — 3.5% of all visits. Each assistant's share of those visits, by month: ChatGPT Gemini Claude ChatGPT: Jul 2026 42%, Aug 2026 74%, Sept 2026 94%; Gemini: Jul 2026 20%, Aug 2026 15%, Sept 2026 6.1%; Claude: Jul 2026 15%, Aug 2026 3.8%, Sept 2026 0.3% | Assistant | Jul 2026 | Aug 2026 | Sept 2026 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | ChatGPT | 42% | 74% | 94% | | Gemini | 20% | 15% | 6.1% | | Claude | 15% | 3.8% | 0.3% | Third-party traffic estimates. BV uses only the organic-search figure. Server and network 0 other publications on the server · 0 on the network No other publication in the directory runs on 198.54.96.155. 0 publications are on the same hosting network (SUPPLYFRAME, AS62698). Where each figure comes from 7 figures, their sources and dates | Figure | Source | What it covers | | --- | --- | --- | | [Backlink value](https://mxverify.uk/publications/hackaday.io#value) | BV 2.8 | Site Strength × link type; link type from our reading of the site | | [Links placed here](https://mxverify.uk/publications/hackaday.io#links) | bklink audits | None audited yet | | [How it links out](https://mxverify.uk/publications/hackaday.io#reading) | Read by mxverify | 8 links to other sites in 1 article; read 22 Oct 2026 Thin sample | | [Traffic](https://mxverify.uk/publications/hackaday.io#traffic) | Third-party estimates | Modelled estimates for Sept 2026, site-wide and for all visitors, as of 22 Oct 2026 | | [Authority](https://mxverify.uk/publications/hackaday.io#value) | Ahrefs Domain Rating | Half of Site Strength, shown in steps of 5, as of 22 Oct 2026; the rating itself is not shown | | [Server and network](https://mxverify.uk/publications/hackaday.io#server) | DNS and ASN registry | 198.54.96.155 · SUPPLYFRAME | | [Domain age](https://mxverify.uk/publications/hackaday.io#hosting) | Domain registry (RDAP) | Registered 18 Feb 2014 | Limitations: what this report does not show 6 stated plainly - 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. 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 22 October 2026 --- Source: mxverify, "Backlink Value & Traffic Report for hackaday.io", https://mxverify.uk/publications/hackaday.io (retrieved 2026-10-22). How every figure is worked out: https://mxverify.uk/methodology