--- title: "Backlink Value & Traffic Report for medium.com" url: https://mxverify.uk/publications/medium.com description: "medium.com: a followed link from it is worth $119 by BV 2.8 (link type C). 1,203,506 websites link to it. Not yet audited. Served through Cloudflare (CDN)." site: mxverify generated: 2026-10-24T06:17:29.800Z --- mxverify · valued # Backlink value and traffic report for medium.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 1998. **In short:** A new followed link from medium.com is worth about $119 to rankings by BV 2.8 (level C, Site Strength 85 of 100); BV is an estimate, not a price anyone charges. It gets about 57.8M visits a month, 54% from organic search, down 15% since Jul 2026. No link placed on it has been audited. Organisation: Medium: mobile app and dot-com company, owned by Evan Williams; United States; since 2012. 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It is a plain link and image: no script runs on your site. ## Backlink value · what one new followed link from medium.com is worth to rankings [BV **$119** per link · level C · strength 85](https://bklink.uk/methodology?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report#bv) reading confidence **Set by rule, 90 out of 100** Reading confidence 90 / 100 medium.com is a platform where anyone can make a page: a rule sets the kind of link it gives, whatever its pages say. **Relevance to the linked site moves it** **$60** unrelated ×0.5 **$149** same topic ×1.25 **By the kind of link it gives** - A editorial $1,193 - B guest, sponsored $596 - C neutralised $119 - D network $60 [How BV is worked out](https://mxverify.uk/publications/medium.com#bv-detail) · BV 2.8 · not a price anyone charges **[57.8M](https://mxverify.uk/publications/medium.com#traffic)** monthly visits −15% since Jul 2026 **[31.5M](https://mxverify.uk/publications/medium.com#traffic)** from organic search 54% of visits **[#886](https://mxverify.uk/publications/medium.com#traffic)** global rank **[1,203,506](https://mxverify.uk/publications/medium.com#links-in)** sites link to it 166,367 of them nofollow **[1998](https://mxverify.uk/publications/registered/1990s)** domain registered expires May 2027 **[2.5 s](https://mxverify.uk/publications/medium.com#tech)** page load for real users (LCP) passes Core Web Vitals **Monthly visits** Jul 2026: 68.3M visits; Aug 2026: 64.5M visits; Sept 2026: 57.8M visits **Where visitors come from** Organic search 54%, Direct 25%, Referrals 7.5%, Social 7.3%, Email 4.1% - [Organic search](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/organic-search) **54%** - [Direct](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/direct) **25%** - Referrals **7.5%** - Social **7.3%** - Email **4.1%** - Other channels **1.3%** Organic search, in green, is the traffic BV prices on. **Top countries** - [United States](https://mxverify.uk/publications/audience/united-states) 34% - [India](https://mxverify.uk/publications/audience/india) 12% - United Kingdom 5.4% - Canada 3.4% - Germany 2.9% - Other countries 42% ## Links to this site Links other sites have made to medium.com, from outside link indexes: not the links placed on it that bklink audits. **1,203,506** websites link to it 166,367 of them with nofollow links **240.6M** links in all, from those websites about 200 per website · first seen 2019 **10** spam score of its links 0–100, the linking pages' average **299,593** IP addresses they link from 122,458 subnets **Where the links sit:** 9.4% in the article or main content of the linking page, 56% in its header, menu, sidebar or footer · 23% in no page section the index could name, the rest in other sections; of the 215.3M links it sorted by where they sit **Pages in Google:** about 17,100,000 · the count Google gives for a site: search, its own estimate, which can be far off either way What Google shows for site:medium.com — the first 10 pages 1. [Michal Malewicz – Medium](https://michalmalewicz.medium.com/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) michalmalewicz.medium.com/ 2. [Medium](https://marclamberts.medium.com/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) marclamberts.medium.com/ 3. [Nir Eyal – Medium](https://nireyal.medium.com/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) nireyal.medium.com/ 4. [ZORA](https://zora.medium.com/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) zora.medium.com/ 5. [Gideon M-K; Health Nerd – Medium](https://gidmk.medium.com/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) gidmk.medium.com/ 6. [Medium](https://towardsai.medium.com/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) towardsai.medium.com/ 7. [NYT Open](https://medium.com/timesopen?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) medium.com/timesopen 8. [GoPenAI](https://medium.com/gopenai?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) medium.com/gopenai 9. [Elemental](https://elemental.medium.com/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) elemental.medium.com/ 10. [Rocco Pendola – Medium](https://roccopendola.medium.com/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) roccopendola.medium.com/ Sources: link counts and spam score from a third-party backlink index, read 04 October 2026; the chart grows by one reading a month; page count and pages from a Google site: search, 19 October 2026. BV prices on one of these only, the page count: when two site: searches at least 7 days apart both find no pages, and nothing on record shows Google indexing the site, a link from it is priced at most level C. ## Links placed here No link placed on medium.com 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 medium.com is nofollow. It is followed only when the site's owner audits medium.com'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 medium.com did not let our reader in on 3 Oct 2026, so its link type is set by fixed rules until a later reading succeeds. Read 3 Oct 2026 · [the full reading](https://mxverify.uk/publications/medium.com#reading) ## Tech stack The homepage could not be read on 19 Oct 2026 (HTTP 403); it is tried again within a week. ### Page speed Chrome users, 28 days to 1 Oct 2026: LCP 2.5 s · INP 106 ms · CLS 0.03 — passes Core Web Vitals. Source: Chrome UX Report (Google), CC BY 4.0. ## Domain and hosting - **Domain registered**: [27 May 1998](https://mxverify.uk/publications/registered/1990s) - **Registration expires**: 26 May 2027 - **Record last changed**: 16 May 2026 - **Server address**: 162.159.153.4 · 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. - [symbolefy.com BV $95 · level B B Health and medicine](https://mxverify.uk/publications/symbolefy.com) - [vetlist.org BV $12 · level C C Health and medicine](https://mxverify.uk/publications/vetlist.org) - [dentistlist.org BV $15 · level C C Health and medicine](https://mxverify.uk/publications/dentistlist.org) - [allzonems.com BV $96 · level B B Health and medicine](https://mxverify.uk/publications/allzonems.com) - [mentoday.ru BV $404 · level A A Health and medicine](https://mxverify.uk/publications/mentoday.ru) - [gosaveshop.com BV $3.88 · level C C Health and medicine](https://mxverify.uk/publications/gosaveshop.com) More like it: [Forum, profile and PR backlink sites](https://mxverify.uk/publications/level/c) · [Backlink sites worth $100 to $249 a link](https://mxverify.uk/publications/value/100-249) · [Old websites from the 90s](https://mxverify.uk/publications/registered/1990s) How to use this report 3 ways to use these figures - **Price check.** BV puts one new followed link from medium.com at $119 (level C): $60 to an unrelated site (×0.5), $149 to a same-topic site (×1.25). A quote far above $149 for a level C link pays for what BV does not measure. · [Backlink value](https://mxverify.uk/publications/medium.com#value) · [what this means](https://mxverify.uk/guide#use) - **Qualification and risk.** Its Site Strength is 85 / 100; the link it usually gives is level C — usually neutralised (a press-release, syndicated, profile or forum link). The spam score of its links is 10 (0–100, the linking pages' average), not medium.com's own. · [How BV is worked out](https://mxverify.uk/publications/medium.com#bv-detail) · [what this means](https://mxverify.uk/guide#levels) - **Traffic reality check.** Set any traffic claim beside the Sept 2026 estimate: 57.8M monthly visits, 54% from organic search (31.5M). Visits fell 15% from Jul 2026 to Sept 2026. Its top keyword by Visits (est.) is “fetlife”, about 220.9K a month; the ad value beside it is the whole market's. · [Traffic in detail](https://mxverify.uk/publications/medium.com#traffic) · [what this means](https://mxverify.uk/guide#traffic) What each figure means, and what it cannot tell you: [How to read a site report](https://mxverify.uk/guide). Quick answers about medium.com 8 questions answered ### What is a link from medium.com 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 medium.com is worth about $119 (level C). Relevance moves it: $60 to an unrelated site, $149 to a same-topic site. BV is an estimate of ranking value, not a price anyone charges. In short: a link from medium.com is worth about $119 to rankings, up to $149 on the same topic. Source: [mxverify BV 2.8 methodology](https://mxverify.uk/methodology) ### Is a link from medium.com worth placing? By BV 2.8, the links medium.com gives are priced at level C ($119), whatever kind of link is placed there. A price far above $149 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 medium.com's BV compare with other sites? At about $119 a link, medium.com is in the “$100 to $249” value band, with 232 of the 3,589 sites valued on mxverify. 155 sites are in a higher band. The counts are mxverify's own, taken from its directory at the last daily update. In short: 155 of the 3,589 valued sites sit in a higher value band than medium.com. Source: mxverify's own directory, counted at the last daily update ### How much traffic does medium.com get? medium.com gets about 57.8M visits a month (Sept 2026), by a modelled estimate of all its visitors, not analytics measured on the site. 54% of them (31.5M) come from organic search. Visits fell 15% from Jul 2026 to Sept 2026. In short: medium.com draws about 57.8M visits a month, down 15% since Jul 2026. Source: [third-party traffic estimate, Sept 2026](https://mxverify.uk/publications/medium.com#evidence) ### Does medium.com pass Core Web Vitals? Yes: real Chrome users see medium.com's largest content load in 2.5 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: medium.com passes Core Web Vitals on real-user data. Source: [Chrome UX Report, 28 days to 1 Oct 2026](https://developer.chrome.com/docs/crux); [web.dev: Web Vitals](https://web.dev/articles/vitals) ### How old is medium.com? The domain medium.com was registered in 1998, 28 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/) ### How many sites link to medium.com? 1,203,506 websites link to medium.com, each counted once. 166,367 of them (14%) link with nofollow. Source: [third-party backlink index, Oct 2026](https://mxverify.uk/publications/medium.com#evidence) ### Has medium.com been audited? No link placed on medium.com 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: medium.com's report is valued, not audited. How BV is worked out Site Strength 85 / 100 · level C · each factor and link type A followed editorial link from medium.com would be worth up to $1,193 under BV 2.8, before relevance: its Site Strength is 85 out of 100. The link it usually gives is level C, worth about $119 — and relevance to the site it points to moves that between $60 and $149. - **Site Strength**: **85** / 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: 31.5M estimated monthly organic visits, as of 7 October 2026. - **Worth up to**: $1,193 · 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**: Level C — usually neutralised → ×0.1 A platform where anyone can make a page — a link-in-bio, profile or blog service, or a free-hosting subdomain. A link there is a user page, level C, and the authority belongs to the platform, not the page. - **Relevance to your site**: ×1 · neutral here; in an audit it runs from ×0.5 (unrelated) to ×1.25 (same topic) - **BV score**: **$119** per link - **Domain registered**: 27 May 1998 · 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 medium.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 | $1,193 | | B — May be discounted | A guest, sponsored or placed article, or a product or tool directory listing. | ×0.5 | $596 | | C — Usually neutralised | A press release or syndicated copy, a forum post, profile, footer or sidebar link — and any nofollow link. | ×0.1 | $119 | | D — Network | A site on a server whose sites show footprints of one owner, a link farm, or machine-generated pages. | ×0.05 | $60 | How medium.com links out: the full reading the site did not let our reader in We could not read medium.com's pages when it was valued on 3 October 2026 — the site blocked our reader or did not answer — so its link type is set by fixed rules until a later reading succeeds. Traffic in detail engagement, top keywords, AI assistants Modelled estimates for Sept 2026, as of 7 October 2026: site-wide, all visitors, not analytics measured on the site itself. - **#886** global rank - **#649** rank in US - **71%** bounce rate - **2.5** pages per visit - **1m 50s** time on site **Every channel** - [Organic search](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/organic-search) 54% - [Direct](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/direct) 25% - Referrals 7.5% - Social 7.3% - AI assistants 0.9% - Email 4.1% - Paid 0.4% - Affiliate and other 0.0% 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.) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [medium](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/medium) | 690.7K | $1.72 | $1.2M | 844.7K | | [fetlife](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/fetlife) | 441K | $2.60 | $1.1M | 220.9K | | [chatgpt](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/chatgpt) | 185.1M | $0.13 | $24.1M | 167K | | [janitor ai](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/janitor-ai) | 1.4M | $1.55 | $2.2M | 155.6K | | [product](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/product) | 17.8M | $1.02 | $18.1M | 66.2K | 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 **508.5K** visits in Sept 2026 — 0.9% of all visits. Each assistant's share of those visits, by month: [ChatGPT](https://mxverify.uk/publications/ai/chatgpt) [Gemini](https://mxverify.uk/publications/ai/gemini) [Claude](https://mxverify.uk/publications/ai/claude) ChatGPT: Jul 2026 36%, Aug 2026 38%, Sept 2026 22%; Gemini: Jul 2026 39%, Aug 2026 40%, Sept 2026 21%; Claude: Jul 2026 16%, Aug 2026 12%, Sept 2026 2.3% | Assistant | Jul 2026 | Aug 2026 | Sept 2026 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | ChatGPT | 36% | 38% | 22% | | Gemini | 39% | 40% | 21% | | Claude | 16% | 12% | 2.3% | Third-party traffic estimates. BV uses only the organic-search figure. Server and network a CDN edge, shared by unrelated sites medium.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 | Figure | Source | What it covers | | --- | --- | --- | | [Backlink value](https://mxverify.uk/publications/medium.com#value) | BV 2.8 | Site Strength × link type; link type set by the user-page platform rule | | [Links placed here](https://mxverify.uk/publications/medium.com#links) | bklink audits | None audited yet | | [How it links out](https://mxverify.uk/publications/medium.com#reading) | Read by mxverify | The site did not let our reader in (3 Oct 2026) | | [Traffic](https://mxverify.uk/publications/medium.com#traffic) | Third-party estimates | Modelled estimates for Sept 2026, site-wide and for all visitors, as of 7 Oct 2026 | | [Links to this site](https://mxverify.uk/publications/medium.com#links-in) | Third-party backlink index | 1,203,506 linking sites, read 4 Oct 2026; one reading a month | | [Authority](https://mxverify.uk/publications/medium.com#value) | Ahrefs Domain Rating | Half of Site Strength, shown in steps of 5, as of 24 Oct 2026; the rating itself is not shown | | [Server and network](https://mxverify.uk/publications/medium.com#server) | DNS and ASN registry | 162.159.153.4 · Cloudflare (CDN) · a CDN edge, shared by unrelated sites | | [Domain age](https://mxverify.uk/publications/medium.com#hosting) | Domain registry (RDAP) | Registered 27 May 1998 | 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 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 medium.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. - medium.com's visits fell 15% from Jul 2026 to Sept 2026. Half of Site Strength is organic search traffic, so a fall that lasts lowers BV when the figure is next read. 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 24 October 2026 --- Source: mxverify, "Backlink Value & Traffic Report for medium.com", https://mxverify.uk/publications/medium.com (retrieved 2026-10-24). How every figure is worked out: https://mxverify.uk/methodology