--- title: "Backlink Value & Traffic Report for news.ycombinator.com" url: https://mxverify.uk/publications/news.ycombinator.com description: "news.ycombinator.com: a followed link from it is worth $286 by BV 2.9 (link type C). Not yet audited. Hosted on M5HOSTING (US). Domain registered 2005." site: mxverify generated: 2026-10-29T13:28:24.514Z --- mxverify · valued # 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. First recorded 29 October 2026 · Last updated 29 October 2026 · [Visit news.ycombinator.com](https://news.ycombinator.com/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) [Compare](https://mxverify.uk/compare/news.ycombinator.com#add) Show news.ycombinator.com's BV badge on your site The badge shows what a link from news.ycombinator.com is worth, as this report does, and updates by itself. It links to this report. Embed code (HTML) Copied Paste it where the badge should appear. ## Backlink value · what one new followed link from news.ycombinator.com is worth to rankings [BV **$286** per link · level C · strength 80](https://bklink.uk/methodology?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report#bv) reading confidence **Low, 6 out of 100** Reading confidence 6 / 100 - What we read 10 - Our model's certainty 59 - Its view of the pages 11 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](https://mxverify.uk/publications/news.ycombinator.com#reading) **Relevance to the linked site moves it** **$143** unrelated ×0.5 **$358** same topic ×1.25 **By the kind of link it gives** - A editorial $963 - B guest, sponsored $482 - C neutralised $96 - D network $48 Priced on a blend of link types: A 16% · B 14% · C 69% · D 1% → ×0.3. [How BV is worked out](https://mxverify.uk/publications/news.ycombinator.com#bv-detail) · BV 2.9 · not a price anyone charges **[57.1M](https://mxverify.uk/publications/news.ycombinator.com#traffic)** monthly visits +303% since Jul 2026 **[3.3M](https://mxverify.uk/publications/news.ycombinator.com#traffic)** from organic search 5.9% of visits **[#1,082](https://mxverify.uk/publications/news.ycombinator.com#traffic)** global rank **2005** domain registered 21 years ago **[0.6 s](https://mxverify.uk/publications/news.ycombinator.com#tech)** page load for real users (LCP) passes Core Web Vitals More like it: [Forum, profile and PR backlink sites](https://mxverify.uk/publications/level/c) · [Backlink sites worth $250 to $499 a link](https://mxverify.uk/publications/value/250-499) · [News websites](https://mxverify.uk/publications/category/news) **Monthly visits** Jul 2026: 14.2M visits; Aug 2026: 37.5M visits; Sept 2026: 57.1M visits **Where visitors come from** Direct 92%, Organic search 5.9%, Referrals 0.9%, Social 0.6%, Email 0.3% - [Direct](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/direct) **92%** - [Organic search](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/organic-search) **5.9%** - [Referrals](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/referrals) **0.9%** - [Social](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/social) **0.6%** - [Email](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/email) **0.3%** Organic search, in green, is the traffic BV prices on. **Top countries** - [United States](https://mxverify.uk/publications/audience/united-states) 13% - [Germany](https://mxverify.uk/publications/audience/germany) 11% - [United Kingdom](https://mxverify.uk/publications/audience/united-kingdom) 7.6% - [France](https://mxverify.uk/publications/audience/france) 5.7% - [China](https://mxverify.uk/publications/audience/china) 5.2% - Other countries 58% ## Links to this site Link counts for news.ycombinator.com are fetched at the next daily update, usually by 05:00 UTC, and shown here from then. ## Links placed here No link placed on news.ycombinator.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 news.ycombinator.com is nofollow. It is followed when the site's owner audits news.ycombinator.com's own backlinks on bklink.uk, chooses to publish it and proves the site is theirs (for 90 days from each audit), or once a one-time payment of $9 is made for it. [When a link here is followed](https://mxverify.uk/methodology#followed-links) ## How it links out No links to other sites in the 4 articles read. Thin sample Read 29 Oct 2026 · [the full reading](https://mxverify.uk/publications/news.ycombinator.com#reading) ## Tech stack news.ycombinator.com's homepage has not been read yet; every site with a report is read within a few days. ### Page speed Chrome users, 28 days to 27 Oct 2026: LCP 0.6 s · INP 44 ms · CLS 0.00 — passes Core Web Vitals. Data from the Chrome UX Report (Google), CC BY 4.0. ## Domain and hosting - **Domain registered**: 20 March 2005 - **Content category**: [news](https://mxverify.uk/publications/category/news) - **Server address**: 209.216.230.207 - **Hosting network**: M5HOSTING · AS21581 · US How to use this report 3 ways to use these figures - **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. · [Backlink value](https://mxverify.uk/publications/news.ycombinator.com#value) · [what this means](https://mxverify.uk/guide#use) - **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). · [How BV is worked out](https://mxverify.uk/publications/news.ycombinator.com#bv-detail) · [what this means](https://mxverify.uk/guide#levels) - **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. · [Traffic in detail](https://mxverify.uk/publications/news.ycombinator.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 news.ycombinator.com 7 questions answered ### 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](https://mxverify.uk/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](https://mxverify.uk/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. Source: [third-party traffic estimate, Sept 2026](https://mxverify.uk/publications/news.ycombinator.com#evidence) ### 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](https://developer.chrome.com/docs/crux); [web.dev: Web Vitals](https://web.dev/articles/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](https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9083/) ### 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 Site Strength 80 / 100 · level C · each factor and link type 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** / 100 ([how Site Strength is worked out](https://mxverify.uk/methodology#reading-a-report)). Traffic: 3.3M estimated monthly organic visits, as of 29 October 2026. - **Worth up to**: $963 · before relevance — [how it is calculated](https://mxverify.uk/backlink-value#how) - **Usual link type**: Mostly level C — usually neutralised · A 16%, B 14%, C 69%, D 1% → ×0.3 (each level's factor below, weighted by those shares) Read by Jev from our own reading of news.ycombinator.com's homepage and 4 articles. No link placed here has been audited yet. - **Relevance to your site**: ×1 · neutral here ([range in an audit](https://mxverify.uk/methodology#reading-a-report)) - **BV score**: **$286** per link - **Domain registered**: 20 March 2005 · shown for context ([how age is used](https://mxverify.uk/methodology#reading-a-report)) ### A link from news.ycombinator.com, by link type A link from news.ycombinator.com at each level. [What each level means](https://mxverify.uk/methodology#link-levels). | 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 4 articles read · each link counted 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 0 links to other sites across 4 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** No links to other sites in the articles read. **What its homepage offers** No guest-post, sponsored-post or advertising pages linked from the homepage. ### Articles read | Article | Words | Links out | Followed | Says | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [This Is How You Should Actually Make Launch Videos : YC Startup Library \| Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/library/fY-this-is-how-you-should-actually-make-launch-videos?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | | [The World’s Largest Electric Aircraft Just Flew : YC Startup Library \| Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/library/Y6-the-world-s-largest-electric-aircraft-just-flew?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | | [Jensen Huang: The Mindset That Built NVIDIA : YC Startup Library \| Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/library/Tq-jensen-huang-the-mindset-that-built-nvidia?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | | [Sam Altman: "Never a Better Time to Do a Startup" : YC Startup Library \| Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/library/Uu-sam-altman-never-a-better-time-to-do-a-startup?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 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%. Jev reads it as a platform where users post (61%), established as a source (31%), and not selling guest, sponsored or paid posts (97%). Traffic in detail engagement, top keywords, AI assistants Modelled estimates for Sept 2026, as of 29 October 2026: site-wide, all visitors, not analytics measured on the site itself. - **#1,082** global rank - **#1,404** rank in US - **71%** bounce rate - **2.1** pages per visit - **2m 32s** time on site **Every channel** - [Organic search](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/organic-search) 5.9% - [Direct](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/direct) 92% - [Referrals](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/referrals) 0.9% - [Social](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/social) 0.6% - AI assistants 0.2% - [Email](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/email) 0.3% - [Paid](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/paid) 0.3% - Affiliate and other 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.) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [chatgpt](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/chatgpt) | 185.1M | $0.13 | $24.1M | 1.2M | | [hacker news](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/hacker-news) | 263.3K | $2.05 | $539.8K | 337.3K | | [hackernews](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/hackernews) | 135.1K | $4.23 | $571.4K | 148.9K | | [annas archive](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/annas-archive) | 1.7M | $0.68 | $1.1M | 36.1K | | [hn](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/hn) | 62.7K | $0.37 | $23.2K | 28.2K | 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 **114.2K** visits in Sept 2026 — 0.2% 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 45%, Aug 2026 76%, Sept 2026 57%; Gemini: Jul 2026 10%, Aug 2026 15%, Sept 2026 15%; Claude: Jul 2026 4.7%, Aug 2026 4.2%, Sept 2026 3.3% | Assistant | Jul 2026 | Aug 2026 | Sept 2026 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | ChatGPT | 45% | 76% | 57% | | Gemini | 10% | 15% | 15% | | Claude | 4.7% | 4.2% | 3.3% | Third-party traffic estimates. BV uses only the organic-search figure. Server and network 0 other publications on the server · 0 on the 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 7 figures, their sources and dates | Figure | Source | What it covers | | --- | --- | --- | | [Backlink value](https://mxverify.uk/publications/news.ycombinator.com#value) | BV 2.9 | Site Strength × link type; link type from our reading of the site | | [Links placed here](https://mxverify.uk/publications/news.ycombinator.com#links) | bklink audits | None audited yet | | [How it links out](https://mxverify.uk/publications/news.ycombinator.com#reading) | Read by mxverify | 0 links to other sites in 4 articles; read 29 Oct 2026 Thin sample | | [Traffic](https://mxverify.uk/publications/news.ycombinator.com#traffic) | Third-party estimates | Modelled estimates for Sept 2026, site-wide and for all visitors, as of 29 Oct 2026 | | [Authority](https://mxverify.uk/publications/news.ycombinator.com#value) | 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](https://mxverify.uk/publications/news.ycombinator.com#server) | mxverify's DNS and ASN lookup | 209.216.230.207 · M5HOSTING | | [Domain age](https://mxverify.uk/publications/news.ycombinator.com#hosting) | Domain registry (RDAP) | Registered 20 Mar 2005 | Limitations: what this report does not show 2 stated plainly - 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. What every report's figures can and cannot tell you: [how to read a report](https://mxverify.uk/methodology#reading-a-report). 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 29 October 2026 --- Source: mxverify, "Backlink Value & Traffic Report for news.ycombinator.com", https://mxverify.uk/publications/news.ycombinator.com (retrieved 2026-10-29). How every figure is worked out: https://mxverify.uk/methodology