---
title: "ietf.org backlink value: $99 per link — mxverify"
url: https://mxverify.uk/publications/ietf.org
description: "A followed link from ietf.org is worth $99 by BV 2.2 (link type C). 1 placed link audited. Served through Cloudflare (CDN). Domain registered 1995."
site: mxverify
generated: 2026-09-25T16:53:50.396Z
---

Site report · audited

# ietf.org

We have audited 1 placed link on ietf.org — too few to state rates. 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 1995.

Last updated 25 September 2026 · [Visit ietf.org](https://ietf.org/)

## Where each figure comes from

| Figure | Source | What it covers |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [Backlink value](https://mxverify.uk/publications/ietf.org#value) | BV 2.2 | Site Strength × link type; link type read from 1 audited link |
| [Links bought here](https://mxverify.uk/publications/ietf.org#links) | bklink audits | 1 link checked on the page, latest 11 Sept 2026 Thin sample |
| [How it links out](https://mxverify.uk/publications/ietf.org#reading) | Read by mxverify | 17 links to other sites in 3 articles; read 25 Sept 2026 Fair sample |
| [Traffic](https://mxverify.uk/publications/ietf.org#traffic) | TabAPI | Estimated visits for Aug 2026, as of 25 Sept 2026 |
| [Authority](https://mxverify.uk/publications/ietf.org#value) | Ahrefs Domain Rating | Half of Site Strength, shown in steps of 5, as of 11 Sept 2026; the rating itself is not shown |
| [Server and network](https://mxverify.uk/publications/ietf.org#server) | DNS and ASN registry | 104.16.44.99 · Cloudflare (CDN) · a CDN edge, shared by unrelated sites |
| [Domain age](https://mxverify.uk/publications/ietf.org#hosting) | Domain registry (RDAP) | Registered 11 Mar 1995 |

## Backlink value

[BV **$99** per link · level C · strength 75](https://bklink.uk/methodology#bv)

A followed editorial link from ietf.org would be worth up to $778 under BV 2.2, before relevance: its Site Strength is 75 out of 100. The link it usually gives is level C, worth about $99 — and relevance to the site it points to moves that between $49 and $124.

- **Site Strength**: **75** / 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: estimated monthly organic visits, TabAPI, 25 September 2026.
- **Worth up to**: $778 · 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 3%, C 97% → ×0.13 (each level's factor below, weighted by those shares) Read by Jev, the model that judges every link in a bklink audit, from 1 audited link on this site.
- **Relevance to your site**: ×1 · neutral here; in an audit it runs from ×0.5 (unrelated) to ×1.25 (same topic)
- **BV score**: **$99** per link
- **Domain registered**: 11 March 1995 · shown for context; BV does not price on age

### A link from ietf.org, 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 | $778 |
| B — May be discounted | A guest, sponsored or placed article, or a product or tool directory listing. | ×0.5 | $389 |
| C — Usually neutralised | A press release or syndicated copy, a forum post, profile, footer or sidebar link — and any nofollow link. | ×0.1 | $78 |
| D — Network | A site on a server whose sites show footprints of one owner, a link farm, or machine-generated pages. | ×0.05 | $39 |

## How ietf.org links out

Read by mxverify on 25 September 2026: the homepage and 3 articles. 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 bought here are audited.

Fair sample 17 links to other sites across 3 articles. 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%

17 links to other sites across 3 articles, share buttons left out.

**What its homepage offers**

No guest-post, sponsored-post or advertising pages linked from the homepage.

### Articles read

| Article | Words | Links out | Followed | Says |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [IETF \| Preventing Internet Route Hijack with SIDRops Technology](https://www.ietf.org/blog/sidrops-and-avoidable-route-hijacks/) | 989 | 5 | 5 | — |
| [IETF Anti-Harassment Policy](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/statement-iesg-ietf-anti-harassment-policy-20131103/) | 264 | 0 | 0 | — |
| [IETF \| IETF email infrastructure transition completed on 11 September](https://www.ietf.org/blog/email-service-transition-2026-09/) | 1,179 | 12 | 12 | — |

Jev, the model that judges every link in a bklink audit, reads these pages as a site whose links are mostly level **A** — A 99%, B 0%, C 1.0%, D 0%. A new link is priced at B at most: reading the site cannot tell whether a new link will be earned or placed. Only an audit of links on the site can show level A.

## Traffic

Traffic estimates for Aug 2026 from TabAPI, as of 25 September 2026.

- **956.9K** monthly visits −10% since Jun 2026
- **296.2K** from organic search 31% of visits
- **#62,992** global rank
- **#56,261** rank in US

- **50%** bounce rate
- **2.2** pages per visit
- **1m 30s** time on site

**Monthly visits**

Jun 2026: 1.1M visits; Jul 2026: 1.1M visits; Aug 2026: 956.9K visits

**Where visitors come from**

- Organic search 31%
- Direct 46%
- Referrals 16%
- Social 3.3%
- AI assistants 2.4%
- Email 0.4%
- Paid 0.6%
- Affiliate and other 0%

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

**Top countries**

- United States 22%
- India 7.1%
- China 6.6%
- Germany 4.7%
- Russia 4.7%
- Other countries 55%

**Top search keywords**

| Keyword | Searches / mo | CPC | Traffic value |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| r ui | 68.3K | $1.31 | $5,030 |
| ietf | 6,950 | $3.47 | $3,220 |
| jwt | 141.5K | $1.60 | $2,280 |
| rfc 9110 | 2,550 | $0.00 | $1,170 |
| olxc | 27.7K | $0.26 | $1,030 |

Traffic value: what the keyword's visits would cost as search ads, per month.

### AI assistants

AI assistants sent about **22.8K** visits in Aug 2026 — 2.4% of all visits. Each assistant's share of those visits, by month:

ChatGPT Gemini Perplexity

ChatGPT: Jun 2026 58%, Jul 2026 67%, Aug 2026 51%; Gemini: Jun 2026 40%, Jul 2026 17%, Aug 2026 16%; Perplexity: Jun 2026 0%, Jul 2026 0.8%, Aug 2026 5.7%

| Assistant | Jun 2026 | Jul 2026 | Aug 2026 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ChatGPT | 58% | 67% | 51% |
| Gemini | 40% | 17% | 16% |
| Perplexity | 0% | 0.8% | 5.7% |

Traffic estimates by TabAPI. BV uses only the organic-search figure.

## How its links behaved

- **1** links audited
- **0** pages we could not read

Fewer than 3 readable audited links — too few for percentages to mean anything.

Latest audit 11 September 2026. Each link counts once, at its most recent audit.

## Hosting

- **Server address**: 104.16.44.99 · CDN edge, shared by unrelated sites
- **Hosting network**: Cloudflare (CDN) · AS13335
- **Server country**: US
- **Domain registered**: 11 March 1995

## Server and network

ietf.org 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.

- **CDN** edge address, not a server
- **546** on the same hosting network

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.

## Limitations: what this report does not show

- Only 1 link has been audited here — a sample too small to describe the publication as a whole.
- 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 ietf.org 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](https://bklink.uk/) audits · maintained by [Palash Bagchi](https://mxverify.uk/about) · updated 25 September 2026

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Source: mxverify, "ietf.org backlink value: $99 per link — mxverify", https://mxverify.uk/publications/ietf.org (retrieved 2026-09-25). How every figure is worked out: https://mxverify.uk/methodology