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Backlink value and traffic report for news.ycombinator.com
In short: A new followed link from news.ycombinator.com is worth about $286 to rankings by BV 2.9 (level C, Site Strength 80 of 100); BV is an estimate, not a price anyone charges. It gets about 57.1M visits a month, 5.9% from organic search, up 303% since Jul 2026. No link placed on it has been audited.
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Backlink value · what one new followed link from news.ycombinator.com is worth to rankings
BV$286per link · level C · strength 80reading confidenceLow, 6 out of 100
Reading confidence 6 / 100
0 of 4 pages read had text · 0 links to other sites seen
How much of news.ycombinator.com we read, and how sure our model was about the kind of link it gives. Never higher than what we read. The full reading
$143 unrelated ×0.5$358 same topic ×1.25
- Direct92%
- Organic search5.9%
- Referrals0.9%
- Social0.6%
- Email0.3%
Links to this site
Links placed here
No link placed on news.ycombinator.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.
How it links out
No links to other sites in the 4 articles read.
Tech stack
Page speed
Chrome users, 28 days to 27 Oct 2026: LCP 0.6 s · INP 44 ms · CLS 0.00 — passes Core Web Vitals.
Domain and hosting
- Domain registered
- 20 March 2005
- Content category
- news
- Server address
- 209.216.230.207
- Hosting network
- M5HOSTING
How to use this report
- Price check. BV puts one new followed link from news.ycombinator.com at $286 (level C), priced on a blend of link types (A 16% · B 14% · C 69% · D 1%): $143 to an unrelated site (×0.5), $358 to a same-topic site (×1.25). A followed editorial link (level A) would be worth up to $963 before relevance. A quote far above $120 for a level C link pays for what BV does not measure.
- Qualification and risk. Its Site Strength is 80 / 100; the link it usually gives is mostly level C — usually neutralised (a press-release, syndicated, profile or forum link).
- Traffic reality check. Set any traffic claim beside the Sept 2026 estimate: 57.1M monthly visits, 5.9% from organic search (3.3M). Visits rose 303% from Jul 2026 to Sept 2026. Its top keyword by Visits (est.) is “chatgpt”, about 1.2M a month; the ad value beside it is the whole market's.
Quick answers about news.ycombinator.com
What is a link from news.ycombinator.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 2.9, a new followed link from news.ycombinator.com is worth about $286 (level C). Relevance moves it: $143 to an unrelated site, $358 to a same-topic site.
In short: a link from news.ycombinator.com is worth about $286 to rankings, up to $358 on the same topic.
Source: mxverify BV 2.9 methodology
Is a link from news.ycombinator.com worth placing?
That depends on the kind of link: by BV 2.9, a link from news.ycombinator.com is worth $963 as an editorial citation (level A), $482 as a guest, sponsored or listed link (level B), $96 as a press-release, syndicated, profile or forum link (level C), $48 as a network link (level D), before relevance. A price far above $120 for a level C link pays for something BV does not measure, such as the site's own readers.
Source: mxverify BV 2.9 methodology
How does news.ycombinator.com's BV compare with other sites?
At about $286 a link, news.ycombinator.com is in the “$250 to $499” value band, with 139 of the 3,822 sites valued on mxverify. 26 sites are in a higher band.
In short: 26 of the 3,822 valued sites sit in a higher value band than news.ycombinator.com.
Source: mxverify's own directory, counted at the last daily update
How much traffic does news.ycombinator.com get?
news.ycombinator.com gets about 57.1M visits a month (Sept 2026), by a modelled estimate of all its visitors, not analytics measured on the site. 5.9% of them (3.3M) come from organic search. Visits rose 303% from Jul 2026 to Sept 2026.
In short: news.ycombinator.com draws about 57.1M visits a month, up 303% since Jul 2026.
Does news.ycombinator.com pass Core Web Vitals?
Yes: real Chrome users see news.ycombinator.com's largest content load in 0.6 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: news.ycombinator.com passes Core Web Vitals on real-user data.
Source: Chrome UX Report, 28 days to 27 Oct 2026; web.dev: Web Vitals
How old is news.ycombinator.com?
The registered domain ycombinator.com was registered in 2005, 21 years ago. news.ycombinator.com is a subdomain, so it carries its registered domain's registration date.
Source: the public registration record; RFC 9083: RDAP JSON responses
Has news.ycombinator.com been audited?
No link placed on news.ycombinator.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: news.ycombinator.com's report is valued, not audited.
How BV is worked out
A followed editorial link from news.ycombinator.com would be worth up to $963 under BV 2.9, before relevance: its Site Strength is 80 out of 100. The link it usually gives is level C, worth about $286 — and relevance to the site it points to moves that between $143 and $358.
- Site Strength
- 80
- Worth up to
- $963
- Usual link type
- Mostly level C — usually neutralised · A 16%, B 14%, C 69%, D 1% → ×0.3
- Relevance to your site
- ×1
- BV score
- $286 per link
- Domain registered
- 20 March 2005
A link from news.ycombinator.com, by link type
A link from news.ycombinator.com at each level. What each level means.
| Level | Factor | Value |
|---|---|---|
| A — Counted | ×1 | $963 |
| B — May be discounted | ×0.5 | $482 |
| C — Usually neutralised | ×0.1 | $96 |
| D — Network | ×0.05 | $48 |
How news.ycombinator.com links out: the full reading
Read by mxverify on 29 October 2026: the homepage and 4 articles (4 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
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 78%, B 3.0%, C 19%, 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 16%, B 14%, C 69%, D 1.0%.
Traffic in detail
Modelled estimates for Sept 2026, as of 29 October 2026: site-wide, all visitors, not analytics measured on the site itself.
| Keyword | Searches / mo | CPC | Ad value / mo | Visits (est.) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| chatgpt | 185.1M | $0.13 | $24.1M | 1.2M |
| hacker news | 263.3K | $2.05 | $539.8K | 337.3K |
| hackernews | 135.1K | $4.23 | $571.4K | 148.9K |
| annas archive | 1.7M | $0.68 | $1.1M | 36.1K |
| hn | 62.7K | $0.37 | $23.2K | 28.2K |
AI assistants
AI assistants sent about 114.2K visits in Sept 2026 — 0.2% of all visits. Each assistant's share of those visits, by month:
Server and network
Its domain was registered in 2005.
mxverify looked up news.ycombinator.com's address: no other publication in the directory runs on 209.216.230.207. 0 publications are on the same hosting network (M5HOSTING, AS21581).
Where each figure comes from
| Figure | Source | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Backlink value | BV 2.9 | Site Strength × link type; link type from our reading of the site |
| Links placed here | bklink audits | None audited yet |
| How it links out | Read by mxverify | 0 links to other sites in 4 articles; read 29 Oct 2026 Thin sample |
| Traffic | Third-party estimates | Modelled estimates for Sept 2026, site-wide and for all visitors, as of 29 Oct 2026 |
| Authority | Ahrefs Domain Rating | Half of Site Strength, shown in steps of 5, as of 29 Oct 2026; the rating itself is not shown |
| Server and network | mxverify's DNS and ASN lookup | 209.216.230.207 · M5HOSTING |
| Domain age | Domain registry (RDAP) | Registered 20 Mar 2005 |
Limitations: what this report does not show
- No link on this publication has been audited yet, so nothing here describes how its links behave.
- news.ycombinator.com gives more than one kind of link (A 16% · B 14% · C 69% · D 1%), so BV prices a blend of them: an editorial link there would be worth $963 and a guest or sponsored one $482, before relevance.