What a link is worthBacklink value and traffic report for opencritic.com
In short: A new followed link from opencritic.com is worth about $200 to rankings by BV 2.9 (level B, Site Strength 65 of 100). It gets about 2M visits a month, 27% from organic search, up 19% since Aug 2026. No link placed on it has been audited.
The badge shows what a link from opencritic.com is worth, as this report does, and updates by itself. It links to this report.
Backlink value · what one new followed link from opencritic.com is worth to rankings
BV$200per link · level B · strength 65reading confidenceHigh, 81 out of 100
Reading confidence 81 / 100
10 of 10 pages read had text · 63 links to other sites seen · posts Mar 2016 – Oct 2026
How much of opencritic.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
Priced from our reading of the site. No reliable sample of checked links yet: its link type comes from the articles mxverify read on the site.
$100 unrelated ×0.5$250 same topic ×1.25
How it compares · among 127 gaming sites on mxverify
- More monthly visits than 68% of the 127 gaming sites on mxverify.
- 27% of its visits come from organic search; the median gaming site gets 42%.
- AI assistants send 0.2% of its visits, a little above the 0.2% the median gaming site gets.
- A new followed link from it is worth more than a link from 83% of gaming sites.
- Priced at level B, like 54% of gaming sites; 3% are level A.
- Direct58%
- Organic search27%
- Social9.2%
- Referrals5.3%
- Email0.4%
Links to this site
Links other sites have made to opencritic.com, from outside link indexes: not the links placed on it that bklink audits.
Where the links sit: 5.6% in the article or main content of the linking page, 15% in its header, menu, sidebar or footer
Pages in Google: about 361,000
What Google shows for site:opencritic.com — the first 10 pages
Links placed here
No link placed on opencritic.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
Followed 100%
Domain and hosting
- Domain registered
- 09 April 2000
- Content category
- gaming
- Server address
- 34.206.179.117
- Hosting network
- Amazon AWS
Tech stack
Publisher signals
- Author bylines: none marked up on the homepage
- About page: not linked from the homepage
- Editorial policy: not linked from the homepage
- Contact page: linked from the homepage
Page speed
Chrome users, 28 days to 10 Nov 2026: LCP 1.7 s · INP 95 ms · CLS 0.03 — passes Core Web Vitals.
Devices: 67% phone · 31% desktop · 1% tablet — share of Chrome page loads, same 28 days.
Similar sites
How to use this report
- Price check. BV puts one new followed link from opencritic.com at $200 (level B), priced on a blend of link types (A 7% · B 59% · C 33% · D 2%): $100 to an unrelated site (×0.5), $250 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 mostly level B — may be discounted (a guest, sponsored or listed link). In the 10 articles we read, 0% of the links to other sites are nofollow, sponsored or ugc. The spam score of its links is 6 (0–100, the linking pages' average), not opencritic.com's own.
- Traffic reality check. Set any traffic claim beside the Oct 2026 estimate: 2M monthly visits, 27% from organic search (524.3K). Visits rose 19% from Aug 2026 to Oct 2026. Its top keyword by Visits (est.) is “my hero academia”, about 4,670 a month; the ad value beside it is the whole market's.
Quick answers about opencritic.com
What is a link from opencritic.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 opencritic.com is worth about $200 (level B). Relevance moves it: $100 to an unrelated site, $250 to a same-topic site.
In short: a link from opencritic.com is worth about $200 to rankings, up to $250 on the same topic.
Source: mxverify BV 2.9 methodology
Is a link from opencritic.com worth placing?
That depends on the kind of link: by BV 2.9, a link from opencritic.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.
Source: mxverify BV 2.9 methodology
How does opencritic.com's BV compare with other sites?
At about $200 a link, opencritic.com is in the “$100 to $249” value band, with 380 of the 4,532 sites valued on mxverify. 230 sites are in a higher band.
In short: 230 of the 4,532 valued sites sit in a higher value band than opencritic.com.
Source: mxverify's own directory, counted at the last daily update
How much traffic does opencritic.com get?
opencritic.com gets about 2M visits a month (Oct 2026), by a modelled estimate of all its visitors, not analytics measured on the site. 27% of them (524.3K) come from organic search. Visits rose 19% from Aug 2026 to Oct 2026.
In short: opencritic.com draws about 2M visits a month, up 19% since Aug 2026.
Does opencritic.com pass Core Web Vitals?
Yes: real Chrome users see opencritic.com's largest content load in 1.7 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: opencritic.com passes Core Web Vitals on real-user data.
Source: Chrome UX Report, 28 days to 10 Nov 2026; web.dev: Web Vitals
Does opencritic.com link out with nofollow?
In the 10 articles we read, opencritic.com made 63 links to other sites, and 0% of them were nofollow, sponsored or ugc; the other 100% were followed.
Source: mxverify's reading of 10 articles, 13 Nov 2026; Google Search Central: qualify your outbound links
How old is opencritic.com?
The domain opencritic.com was registered in 2000, 26 years ago.
Source: the public registration record; RFC 9083: RDAP JSON responses
How many sites link to opencritic.com?
8,516 websites link to opencritic.com, each counted once. 3,465 of them (41%) link with nofollow.
Has opencritic.com been audited?
No link placed on opencritic.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: opencritic.com's report is valued, not audited.
How BV is worked out
A followed editorial link from opencritic.com would be worth up to $507 under BV 2.9, before relevance: its Site Strength is 65 out of 100. The link it usually gives is level B, worth about $200 — and relevance to the site it points to moves that between $100 and $250.
- Site Strength
- 65
- Worth up to
- $507
- Usual link type
- Mostly level B — may be discounted · A 7%, B 59%, C 33%, D 2% → ×0.39
- Relevance to your site
- ×1
- BV score
- $200 per link
- Domain registered
- 9 April 2000
A link from opencritic.com, by link type
A link from opencritic.com at each level. What each level means.
| Level | Factor | Value |
|---|---|---|
| A — Counted | ×1 | $507 |
| B — May be discounted | ×0.5 | $254 |
| C — Usually neutralised | ×0.1 | $51 |
| D — Network | ×0.05 | $25 |
How opencritic.com links out: the full reading
Read by mxverify on 13 November 2026: the homepage and 10 articles (10 from across its sitemap).
Strong sample
- Advertising
Articles read
| Article | Published | Words | Links out | Followed | Says |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bluey's Happy Snaps Reviews - OpenCritic | Oct 2026 | 631 | 9 | 9 | — |
| Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising Reviews - OpenCritic | Dec 2023 | 937 | 8 | 8 | — |
| The Last Guardian Reviews - OpenCritic | Dec 2016 | 546 | 9 | 9 | — |
| Yoshi's Crafted World Reviews - OpenCritic | Mar 2019 | 495 | 8 | 8 | — |
| Zero-G Gunfight - OpenCritic | Feb 2023 | 246 | 1 | 1 | — |
| Casey Powell Lacrosse 16 Reviews - OpenCritic | Mar 2016 | 657 | 8 | 8 | — |
| Syrup and the Ultimate Sweet Reviews - OpenCritic | Mar 2020 | 783 | 9 | 9 | — |
| Let's Sing 2021 Reviews - OpenCritic | Nov 2020 | 996 | 9 | 9 | — |
| Best Hack and Slash Games of All Time - OpenCritic | — | 729 | 1 | 1 | — |
| Best PlayStation 4 Hack and Slash Games of All Time - OpenCritic | — | 693 | 1 | 1 | — |
Jev, the model that judges every link in a bklink audit, reads these pages as a site whose links are mostly level A — A 81%, B 11%, C 8.0%, 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 6.7%, B 59%, C 33%, D 2.0%.
Traffic in detail
Modelled estimates for Oct 2026, as of 13 November 2026: site-wide, all visitors, not analytics measured on the site itself.
| Keyword | Searches / mo | CPC | Ad value / mo | Visits (est.) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| opencritic | 74K | — | — | 69.4K |
| open critic | 74K | — | — | 5,330 |
| my hero academia | 1.2M | $0.60 | $732K | 4,670 |
| jacob geller | 33.1K | $0.21 | $6,951 | 4,620 |
| call of duty modern warfare 4 opencritic | 700† | — | — | 3,620 |
AI assistants
AI assistants sent about 3,514 visits in Oct 2026 — 0.2% of all visits. Each assistant's share of those visits, by month:
opencritic.com's robots.txt lets every AI crawler below read the site.
| Crawler | robots.txt |
|---|---|
| AI searchCrawls when an assistant searches the web for an answer | |
 ChatGPT OAI-SearchBot | Allowed |
 Claude Claude-SearchBot | Allowed |
 Perplexity PerplexityBot | Allowed |
| AI trainingCollects text to train AI models | |
 OpenAI GPTBot | Allowed |
 Anthropic ClaudeBot | Allowed |
 Google Google-Extended | Allowed |
 Apple Applebot-Extended | Allowed |
 Meta Meta-ExternalAgent | Allowed |
 ByteDance Bytespider | Allowed |
 Common Crawl CCBot | Allowed |
Server and network
Its domain was registered in 2000.
mxverify looked up opencritic.com's address: no other publication in the directory runs on 34.206.179.117. 127 publications are on the same hosting network (Amazon AWS, AS14618) — 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.
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 | 63 links to other sites in 10 articles, published Mar 2016 – Oct 2026; read 13 Nov 2026 Strong sample |
| Traffic | Third-party estimates | Modelled estimates for Oct 2026, site-wide and for all visitors, as of 13 Nov 2026 |
| Links to this site | Third-party backlink index | 8,516 linking sites, read 13 Nov 2026; one reading a month |
| Authority | Ahrefs Domain Rating | Half of Site Strength, shown in steps of 5, as of 13 Nov 2026; the rating itself is not shown |
| Server and network | mxverify's DNS and ASN lookup | 34.206.179.117 · Amazon AWS |
| Domain age | Domain registry (RDAP) | Registered 9 Apr 2000 |
Limitations: what this report does not show
- No link on this publication has been audited yet, so nothing here describes how its links behave.
- opencritic.com gives more than one kind of link (A 7% · B 59% · C 33% · D 2%), so BV prices a blend of them: an editorial link there would be worth $507 and a guest or sponsored one $254, before relevance.
Social profiles
Combined followers 394K across 3 profiles
Profiles opencritic.com names for itself, read 13 Nov 2026 · how these are read
The profiles opencritic.com names for itself, in its structured data or linked from its homepage, read 13 Nov 2026. They are the accounts the site points to, not a check of who runs them. A pill opens the sites with a profile on that platform; the arrow opens the profile. Follower counts as of 13 Nov 2026. A tick: the profile's own website field names this site.
Combined followers adds each profile's count: the same person can follow on more than one platform, and YouTube rounds its figure. The donut splits it by platform, each in its brand colour. On since is the year the account began. Posts and videos are all-time totals. All read from each profile page.