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Site report: indiehackers.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 2015.
Where each figure comes from
| Figure | Source | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Backlink value | BV 2.3 | Site Strength × link type; link type from our reading of the site |
| Links bought here | bklink audits | None audited yet |
| How it links out | Read by mxverify | 44 links to other sites in 10 articles, published Sept 2026; read 26 Sept 2026 Fair sample |
| Traffic | TabAPI | Modelled estimates for Aug 2026, site-wide and for all visitors, as of 26 Sept 2026 |
| Authority | Ahrefs Domain Rating | Half of Site Strength, shown in steps of 5, as of 26 Sept 2026; the rating itself is not shown |
| Server and network | DNS and ASN registry | 172.67.71.1 · Cloudflare (CDN) · a CDN edge, shared by unrelated sites |
| Domain age | Domain registry (RDAP) | Registered 2 Apr 2015 |
Backlink value
BV$125per link · level C · strength 70A followed editorial link from indiehackers.com would be worth up to $628 under BV 2.3, before relevance: its Site Strength is 70 out of 100. The link it usually gives is level C, worth about $125 — and relevance to the site it points to moves that between $62 and $156.
- Site Strength
- 70
- Worth up to
- $628
- Usual link type
- Mostly level C — usually neutralised · A 3%, B 18%, C 79% → ×0.2
- Relevance to your site
- ×1
- BV score
- $125 per link
- Domain registered
- 2 April 2015
A link from indiehackers.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.
| 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 indiehackers.com links out
Read by mxverify on 26 September 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 bought here are audited.
Fair sample
- Write for us / guest posts
- 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 90%, B 7.0%, C 3.0%, 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 3.0%, B 18%, C 79%, D 0%.
Traffic
Modelled estimates by TabAPI for Aug 2026, as of 26 September 2026: site-wide, all visitors, not analytics measured on the site itself.
| Keyword | Searches / mo | CPC | Traffic value |
|---|---|---|---|
| indie hackers | 46K | $3.10 | $66.4K |
| samehadaku | 464.5K | $0.31 | $25.7K |
| indiehackers | 10.7K | $5.14 | $16.6K |
| indie hacker | 5,860 | $5.45 | $6,420 |
| serp insight blogroll | 7,920 | $0.00 | $5,110 |
AI assistants
AI assistants sent about 22.2K visits in Aug 2026 — 3.0% of all visits. Each assistant's share of those visits, by month:
ChatGPTGeminiPerplexity
| Assistant | Jun 2026 | Jul 2026 | Aug 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | 87% | 68% | 63% |
| Gemini | 4.8% | 6.8% | 8.1% |
| Perplexity | 0.9% | 0.9% | 1.4% |
Links bought here
No link bought on indiehackers.com has been audited yet. An audit on bklink.uk checks each one — still there, followed or not, where it sits — and marks this report audited.
Hosting
- Server address
- 172.67.71.1
- Hosting network
- Cloudflare (CDN)
- Server country
- US
- Domain registered
- 02 April 2015
Server and network
indiehackers.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.
Limitations: what this report does not show
- 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 indiehackers.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.