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Backlink value and traffic report for observablehq.com
Its domain was registered in 2017.
In short: A new followed link from observablehq.com is worth about $254 to rankings by BV 2.8 (level B, Site Strength 65 of 100); BV is an estimate, not a price anyone charges. It gets about 356.2K visits a month, 24% from organic search, up 2.4% since Jul 2026. No link placed on it has been audited.
The badge shows what a link from observablehq.com is worth, as this report does, and updates by itself. It links to this report.
Backlink value · what one new followed link from observablehq.com is worth to rankings
BV$254per link · level B · strength 65reading confidenceCouldn't read
Our reader could not open observablehq.com: it refused us or did not answer in time. Its BV takes the usual link type until a later reading gets in.
$127 unrelated ×0.5$317 same topic ×1.25
- Direct40%
- Organic search24%
- Referrals23%
- Social9.5%
- Email1.8%
- Other channels1.7%
Links to this site
Links other sites have made to observablehq.com, from outside link indexes: not the links placed on it that bklink audits.
Where the links sit: 18% in the article or main content of the linking page, 19% in its header, menu, sidebar or footer
Links placed here
No link placed on observablehq.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
observablehq.com did not let our reader in on 22 Oct 2026, so its link type is set by fixed rules until a later reading succeeds.
Tech stack
Page speed
Chrome users, 28 days to 19 Oct 2026: LCP 1.8 s · INP 87 ms · CLS 0.82 — does not pass Core Web Vitals.
Domain and hosting
- Domain registered
- 11 September 2017
- Server address
- 216.150.1.193
- Hosting network
- Amazon AWS
How to use this report
- Price check. BV puts one new followed link from observablehq.com at $254 (level B): $127 to an unrelated site (×0.5), $317 to a same-topic site (×1.25). A followed editorial link (level A) would be worth up to $507 before relevance. A quote far above $317 for a level B link pays for what BV does not measure.
- Qualification and risk. Its Site Strength is 65 / 100; the link it usually gives is level B — may be discounted (a guest, sponsored or listed link). The spam score of its links is 30 (0–100, the linking pages' average), not observablehq.com's own.
- Traffic reality check. Set any traffic claim beside the Sept 2026 estimate: 356.2K monthly visits, 24% from organic search (86.1K). Visits rose 2.4% from Jul 2026 to Sept 2026. Its top keyword by Visits (est.) is “observable”, about 920 a month; the ad value beside it is the whole market's.
Quick answers about observablehq.com
What is a link from observablehq.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 observablehq.com is worth about $254 (level B). Relevance moves it: $127 to an unrelated site, $317 to a same-topic site. BV is an estimate of ranking value, not a price anyone charges.
In short: a link from observablehq.com is worth about $254 to rankings, up to $317 on the same topic.
Source: mxverify BV 2.8 methodology
Is a link from observablehq.com worth placing?
That depends on the kind of link: by BV 2.8, a link from observablehq.com is worth $507 as an editorial citation (level A), $254 as a guest, sponsored or listed link (level B), $51 as a press-release, syndicated, profile or forum link (level C), $25 as a network link (level D), before relevance. A price far above $317 for a level B 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
How does observablehq.com's BV compare with other sites?
At about $254 a link, observablehq.com is in the “$250 to $499” value band, with 131 of the 3,589 sites valued on mxverify. 24 sites are in a higher band. The counts are mxverify's own, taken from its directory at the last daily update.
In short: 24 of the 3,589 valued sites sit in a higher value band than observablehq.com.
Source: mxverify's own directory, counted at the last daily update
How much traffic does observablehq.com get?
observablehq.com gets about 356.2K visits a month (Sept 2026), by a modelled estimate of all its visitors, not analytics measured on the site. 24% of them (86.1K) come from organic search. Visits rose 2.4% from Jul 2026 to Sept 2026.
In short: observablehq.com draws about 356.2K visits a month, up 2.4% since Jul 2026.
Does observablehq.com pass Core Web Vitals?
No: real Chrome users see observablehq.com's largest content load in 1.8 s (LCP), and at least one vital reported for it is not 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: observablehq.com does not pass Core Web Vitals on real-user data.
Source: Chrome UX Report, 28 days to 19 Oct 2026; web.dev: Web Vitals
How old is observablehq.com?
The domain observablehq.com was registered in 2017, 9 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
How many sites link to observablehq.com?
13,273 websites link to observablehq.com, each counted once. 3,185 of them (24%) link with nofollow.
Has observablehq.com been audited?
No link placed on observablehq.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: observablehq.com's report is valued, not audited.
How BV is worked out
A followed editorial link from observablehq.com would be worth up to $507 under BV 2.8, before relevance: its Site Strength is 65 out of 100. The link it usually gives is level B, worth about $254 — and relevance to the site it points to moves that between $127 and $317.
- Site Strength
- 65
- Worth up to
- $507
- Usual link type
- Level B — may be discounted → ×0.5
- Relevance to your site
- ×1
- BV score
- $254 per link
- Domain registered
- 11 September 2017
A link from observablehq.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 | $507 |
| B — May be discounted | A guest, sponsored or placed article, or a product or tool directory listing. | ×0.5 | $254 |
| C — Usually neutralised | A press release or syndicated copy, a forum post, profile, footer or sidebar link — and any nofollow link. | ×0.1 | $51 |
| D — Network | A site on a server whose sites show footprints of one owner, a link farm, or machine-generated pages. | ×0.05 | $25 |
How observablehq.com links out: the full reading
We could not read observablehq.com's pages when it was valued on 22 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
Modelled estimates for Sept 2026, as of 22 October 2026: site-wide, all visitors, not analytics measured on the site itself.
| Keyword | Searches / mo | CPC | Ad value / mo | Visits (est.) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| observable | 4,570 | $17.02 | $77.8K | 920 |
| observablehq | 600 | $6.76 | $4,056 | 450 |
| username generator | 63.6K | $0.93 | $59.2K | 380 |
| observable reactive notebook | 0 | $0.00 | $0 | 370 |
| objectid generator | 330 | $0.00 | $0 | 320 |
AI assistants
AI assistants sent about 3,348 visits in Sept 2026 — 0.9% of all visits. Each assistant's share of those visits, by month:
Server and network
No other publication in the directory runs on 216.150.1.193. 473 publications are on the same hosting network (Amazon AWS, AS16509) — a cloud platform hosting millions of unrelated sites, so that is no sign of a connection.
Amazon AWS is a cloud platform hosting 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
| Figure | Source | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Backlink value | BV 2.8 | Site Strength × link type; link type at the default until the site is read or audited |
| Links placed here | bklink audits | None audited yet |
| How it links out | Read by mxverify | The site did not let our reader in (22 Oct 2026) |
| Traffic | Third-party estimates | Modelled estimates for Sept 2026, site-wide and for all visitors, as of 22 Oct 2026 |
| Links to this site | Third-party backlink index | 13,273 linking sites, read 23 Oct 2026; one reading a month |
| Authority | 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 | DNS and ASN registry | 216.150.1.193 · Amazon AWS |
| Domain age | Domain registry (RDAP) | Registered 11 Sept 2017 |
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 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 observablehq.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.