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Backlink value and traffic report for hotfrog.com

It is served through Cloudflare (CDN), a content delivery network, so its address is shared edge infrastructure and says nothing about who runs it. Its domain was registered in 2003.

Organisation: Hotfrog; since 2005. Wikidata · Last updated 16 October 2026 · Visit hotfrog.com

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Backlink value · what one new followed link from hotfrog.com is worth to rankings

bklinkBV$70per link · level B · nofollow · strength 60
Relevance to the linked site moves it

$35 unrelated ×0.5$87 same topic ×1.25

By the kind of link it gives
  • A editorial$410
  • B guest, sponsored$205
  • C neutralised$41
  • D network$20

Capped by nofollow: priced at ×0.17, not ×0.5.

How BV is worked out · BV 2.8 · not a price anyone charges

397.6Kmonthly visits−34% since Jul 2026
11.5Kfrom organic search2.9% of visits
19,365sites link to it4,933 of them nofollow
2003domain registered23 years ago
1.7 spage load for real users (LCP)passes Core Web Vitals
79%of its own links nofollowin the articles we read
Monthly visits
Jul 2026: 604,685 visits604.7KJul 2026Aug 2026: 362,201 visits362.2KAug 2026Sept 2026: 397,620 visits397.6KSept 2026
Where visitors come from
Organic search: 2.9%Direct: 73%Referrals: 0.4%Social: 23%AI assistants: 0.0%Email: 1.5%Paid: 0.0%2.9%organic
  • Direct73%
  • Social23%
  • Organic search2.9%
  • Email1.5%
  • Referrals0.4%

Organic search, in green, is the traffic BV prices on.

Top countries
  • United States93%
  • India2.9%
  • Pakistan1.9%
  • Philippines0.9%
  • Germany0.2%
  • Other countries1.4%

How it links out

21%of its links followed
52links to other sites
10articles read

Followed 21%Nofollow 79%

Strong sample Read 16 Oct 2026 · its homepage offers advertising · the full reading

Tech stack

Publisher signals

  • Author bylines: none marked up on the homepage
  • About page: not linked from the homepage
  • Editorial policy: not linked from the homepage
  • Contact page: not linked from the homepage

Structured data: WebSite, SearchAction, EntryPoint, Organization. The homepage only; BV does not price on these.

Page speed

Chrome users, 28 days to 13 Oct 2026: LCP 1.7 s · INP 74 ms · CLS 0.02 — passes Core Web Vitals. Source: Chrome UX Report (Google), CC BY 4.0.

Each pill opens every site with a report that shares it. Sources: homepage read 16 Oct 2026; ad load from a web technology index, 16 Oct 2026.

Domain and hosting

Domain registered
01 May 2003
Server address
172.67.71.11 · CDN edge, shared by unrelated sites
Hosting network
Cloudflare (CDN) · AS13335 · US

Similar sites

Matched on the subject the two sites share. Never a site on the same server or network.

How to use this report

3 ways to use these figures
  • Price check. BV puts a new link from hotfrog.com at $70 (level B · nofollow): $35 to an unrelated site (×0.5), $87 to a same-topic site (×1.25). A followed one would be worth $205 before relevance. A followed editorial link (level A) would be worth up to $410 before relevance. A quote far above $256 for a followed level B link pays for what BV does not measure. · Backlink value · what this means
  • Qualification and risk. Its Site Strength is 60 / 100; the link it usually gives is level B — may be discounted (a guest, sponsored or listed link), with nofollow on 79% of its links (in the 10 articles we read). The spam score of its links is 4 (0–100, the linking pages' average), not hotfrog.com's own. · How BV is worked out · what this means
  • Traffic reality check. Set any traffic claim beside the Sept 2026 estimate: 397.6K monthly visits, 2.9% from organic search (11.5K). Visits fell 34% from Jul 2026 to Sept 2026. Its top keyword by Visits (est.) is “hot frog”, about 1,940 a month; the ad value beside it is the whole market's. · Traffic in detail · what this means

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

How BV is worked out

Site Strength 60 / 100 · level B · nofollow · each factor and link type

A followed editorial link from hotfrog.com would be worth up to $410 under BV 2.8, before relevance: its Site Strength is 60 out of 100. The link it usually gives is level B (a guest, sponsored or listed link), but 79% of its links are nofollow, so it is worth about $70 — and relevance to the site it points to moves that between $35 and $87.

Site Strength
60 / 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: 11.5K estimated monthly organic visits, as of 16 October 2026.
Worth up to
$410 · 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
Level B — may be discounted · nofollow on 79% of its links → ×0.17
Read by Jev from our own reading of hotfrog.com's homepage and 10 articles; 79% 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
$70 per link
Domain registered
1 May 2003 · 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 hotfrog.com, 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.

LevelWhat it isFactorValue
A — CountedAn editorial citation: the site linked because it is useful to its readers.×1$410
B — May be discounted · nofollow hereA guest, sponsored or placed article, or a product or tool directory listing.×0.5$205
C — Usually neutralisedA press release or syndicated copy, a forum post, profile, footer or sidebar link — and any nofollow link.×0.1$41
D — NetworkA site on a server whose sites show footprints of one owner, a link farm, or machine-generated pages.×0.05$20

79% of hotfrog.com's links are nofollow, so a new link from it — a guest, sponsored or listed link — is priced at ×0.17: $70, where a followed one would be worth $205. BV prices the ranking value a link passes, and a nofollow link passes little.

How hotfrog.com links out: the full reading

10 articles read · each link counted

Read by mxverify on 16 October 2026: the homepage and 10 articles (10 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.

Strong sample 52 links to other sites across 10 articles published Oct 2015 – Feb 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
  • Followed21%
  • Nofollow79%
  • Sponsored0%
  • User-generated (ugc)0%

52 links to other sites across 10 articles, share buttons left out. BV counts 79% 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
  • Advertising · “Advertising”

Articles read

Jev, the model that judges every link in a bklink audit, reads these pages as a site whose links are mostly level A — A 69%, B 14%, C 17%, 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 0.2%, B 17%, C 83%, D 0%.

Jev reads it as a publication (69%), small or niche as a source (92%), and selling guest, sponsored or paid posts (65%).

Traffic in detail

engagement, top keywords, AI assistants

Modelled estimates for Sept 2026, as of 16 October 2026: site-wide, all visitors, not analytics measured on the site itself.

#121,381global rank
#27,351rank in US
49%bounce rate
2.5pages per visit
4m 26stime on site
Every channel
  • Organic search2.9%
  • Direct73%
  • Referrals0.4%
  • Social23%
  • AI assistants0.0%
  • Email1.5%
  • Paid0.0%
  • Affiliate and other0%

Share of all visits. Organic search is highlighted: it is the traffic BV prices on.

Top search keywords
KeywordSearches / moCPCAd value / moVisits (est.)
hotfrog20.9K$31.71$664K18.4K
hot frog2,820$0.69$1,9461,940
hotfrog business listing890$51.32$45.7K650
hotfrog usa380$0.00$0420
hotftoh300$0.00$0280

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 80 visits in Sept 2026 — 0.0% of all visits. Each assistant's share of those visits, by month:

ChatGPT

0%50%100%Jul 2026Aug 2026Sept 2026ChatGPT, Jul 2026: 100% of AI-assistant visitsChatGPT, Aug 2026: 66% of AI-assistant visitsChatGPT, Sept 2026: 6.1% of AI-assistant visitsChatGPT 6.1%
AssistantJul 2026Aug 2026Sept 2026
ChatGPT100%66%6.1%

At this volume the shares swing hard month to month: a handful of visits can move an assistant from 0% to 100%.

Third-party traffic estimates. BV uses only the organic-search figure.

Server and network

a CDN edge, shared by unrelated sites

hotfrog.com 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. The count is shown; the sites are not listed.

Where each figure comes from

8 figures, their sources and dates
FigureSourceWhat it covers
Backlink valueBV 2.8Site Strength × link type; link type from our reading of the site
Links placed herebklink auditsNone audited yet
How it links outRead by mxverify52 links to other sites in 10 articles, published Oct 2015 – Feb 2024; read 16 Oct 2026 Strong sample
TrafficThird-party estimatesModelled estimates for Sept 2026, site-wide and for all visitors, as of 16 Oct 2026
Links to this siteThird-party backlink index19,365 linking sites, read 16 Oct 2026; one reading a month
AuthorityAhrefs Domain RatingHalf of Site Strength, shown in steps of 5, as of 16 Oct 2026; the rating itself is not shown
Server and networkDNS and ASN registry172.67.71.11 · Cloudflare (CDN) · a CDN edge, shared by unrelated sites
Domain ageDomain registry (RDAP)Registered 1 May 2003

Limitations: what this report does not show

5 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.
  • 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 hotfrog.com 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.

Compiled from bklink.uk audits · maintained by Palash Bagchi · updated 16 October 2026