---
title: "opencritic.com Backlink Value & Traffic Report"
url: https://mxverify.uk/publications/opencritic.com
description: "opencritic.com: a followed link from it is worth $200 by BV 2.9 (link type B). About 2M visits a month, 27% organic. 8,516 websites link to it."
site: mxverify
generated: 2026-11-13T05:10:30.928Z
---

# Backlink 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.

First recorded 13 November 2026 · Last updated 13 November 2026 · [Visit opencritic.com](https://opencritic.com/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report)

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## Backlink value · what one new followed link from opencritic.com is worth to rankings

[BV **$200** per link · level B · strength 65](https://bklink.uk/methodology?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report#bv)

reading confidence **High, 81 out of 100**

Reading confidence 81 / 100

- What we read 100
- Our model's certainty 45
- Its view of the pages 92

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](https://mxverify.uk/publications/opencritic.com#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. Priced 13 Nov 2026 · pages read 13 Nov 2026.

**Relevance to the linked site moves it**

**$100** unrelated ×0.5 **$250** same topic ×1.25

**By the kind of link it gives**

- A editorial $507
- B guest, sponsored $254
- C neutralised $51
- D network $25

Priced on a blend of link types: A 7% · B 59% · C 33% · D 2% → ×0.39.

[How BV is worked out](https://mxverify.uk/publications/opencritic.com#bv-detail) · BV 2.9

**[2M](https://mxverify.uk/publications/opencritic.com#traffic)** monthly visits +19% since Aug 2026

**[524.3K](https://mxverify.uk/publications/opencritic.com#traffic)** from organic search 27% of visits

**[8,516](https://mxverify.uk/publications/opencritic.com#links-in)** sites link to it 3,465 of them nofollow

**[2000](https://mxverify.uk/publications/registered/2000s)** domain registered 26 years ago

**[1.7 s](https://mxverify.uk/publications/opencritic.com#tech)** page load for real users (LCP) passes Core Web Vitals

**[0%](https://mxverify.uk/publications/opencritic.com#reading)** of its own links nofollow in the articles we read

## 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.

Peers are the most specific group of at least 20 sites on mxverify it belongs to: its topic, its category or its kind of site. Figures are third-party traffic estimates and mxverify's BV, as elsewhere on this report.

**Monthly visits**

Aug 2026: 1.6M visits; Sept 2026: 2.2M visits; Oct 2026: 2M visits

**Where visitors come from**

Direct 58%, Organic search 27%, Social 9.2%, Referrals 5.3%, Email 0.4%

- [Direct](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/direct) **58%**
- [Organic search](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/organic-search) **27%**
- [Social](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/social) **9.2%**
- [Referrals](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/referrals) **5.3%**
- [Email](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/email) **0.4%**

Organic search, in green, is the traffic BV prices on.

**Top countries**

- [United States](https://mxverify.uk/publications/audience/united-states) 27%
- [United Kingdom](https://mxverify.uk/publications/audience/united-kingdom) 5.8%
- [Canada](https://mxverify.uk/publications/audience/canada) 5.6%
- [Switzerland](https://mxverify.uk/publications/audience/switzerland) 5.4%
- [Germany](https://mxverify.uk/publications/audience/germany) 5.1%
- Other countries 52%

## 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.

**8,516** websites link to it 3,465 of them with nofollow links

**14.4M** links in all, from those websites about 1,695 per website · first seen 2019

**6** spam score of its links 0–100, the linking pages' average

**6,681** IP addresses they link from 2,752 subnets

**Where the links sit:** 5.6% in the article or main content of the linking page, 15% in its header, menu, sidebar or footer · 65% in no page section the index could name, the rest in other sections; of the 12.9M links it sorted by where they sit

**Pages in Google:** about 361,000 · the count Google gives for a site: search, its own estimate, which can be far off either way

What Google shows for site:opencritic.com — the first 10 pages

1. [Frequently Asked Questions](https://opencritic.com/faq?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) opencritic.com/faq
2. [Best Xbox One Video Games of All Time](https://opencritic.com/browse/xb1?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) opencritic.com/browse/xb1
3. [Best PlayStation 5 Video Games of All Time](https://opencritic.com/browse/ps5?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) opencritic.com/browse/ps5
4. [Venba Reviews](https://opencritic.com/game/15302/venba?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) opencritic.com/game/15302/venba · Jul 31, 2023
5. [Spiritfarer Reviews](https://opencritic.com/game/10030/spiritfarer?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) opencritic.com/game/10030/spiritfarer
6. [SANABI Reviews](https://opencritic.com/game/15850/sanabi?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) opencritic.com/game/15850/sanabi
7. [Thronefall Reviews](https://opencritic.com/game/15319/thronefall?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) opencritic.com/game/15319/thronefall
8. [Ultros Reviews](https://opencritic.com/game/16286/ultros?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) opencritic.com/game/16286/ultros
9. [Best Games of 2023](https://opencritic.com/browse/all/2023?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) opencritic.com/browse/all/2023
10. [Bayonetta Reviews](https://opencritic.com/game/731/bayonetta?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) opencritic.com/game/731/bayonetta

Sources: link counts and spam score from a third-party backlink index, read 13 November 2026; the chart grows by one reading a month; page count and pages from a Google site: search, 13 November 2026.

## Links placed here

No link placed on opencritic.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 opencritic.com is nofollow. It is followed when the site's owner audits opencritic.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

**100%** of its links followed

**63** links to other sites

**10** articles read

Followed 100%

Strong sample Read 13 Nov 2026 · its homepage offers advertising · [the full reading](https://mxverify.uk/publications/opencritic.com#reading)

## Domain and hosting

- **Domain registered**: [09 April 2000](https://mxverify.uk/publications/registered/2000s)
- **Content category**: [gaming](https://mxverify.uk/publications/category/gaming)
- **Server address**: 34.206.179.117
- **Hosting network**: Amazon AWS · AS14618 · US

## Tech stack

- [Served byCloudflare](https://mxverify.uk/publications/tech/cloudflare)
- [Ad loadAd-heavy · 15 ad networks](https://mxverify.uk/publications/ads/heavy)

### 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

Structured data: none on 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. Data from the Chrome UX Report (Google), CC BY 4.0.

Devices: 67% phone · 31% desktop · 1% tablet — share of Chrome page loads, same 28 days.

Sources: homepage read 13 Nov 2026; ad load from a web technology index, 13 Nov 2026.

## Social profiles

- [@Open_Critic 16.7K ✓](https://mxverify.uk/publications/social/x) [↗](https://x.com/Open_Critic)
- [OpenCriticGames 377K ✓](https://mxverify.uk/publications/social/facebook) [↗](https://www.facebook.com/OpenCriticGames)
- [opencritic 202 ✓](https://mxverify.uk/publications/social/linkedin) [↗](https://www.linkedin.com/company/opencritic)

**Combined followers** 394K across 3 profiles

| Platform | Followers | On since | Posts / videos |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| X | 16.7K | 2015 | 6,499 posts |
| Facebook | 377K |  |  |
| LinkedIn | 202 |  |  |

**Followers by platform**

Followers by platform: X 4.2%, Facebook 96%, LinkedIn <1%

- 4.2% 16.7K
- 96% 377K
- <1% 202

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.

## Similar sites

Matched on the subject the two sites share. Never a site on the same server or network.

- [gamespot.com BV $201 · level A · nofollow C Gaming](https://mxverify.uk/publications/gamespot.com)
- [igdb.com BV $245 · level B · nofollow C Gaming](https://mxverify.uk/publications/igdb.com)
- [guessthe.game BV $134 · level B B Gaming](https://mxverify.uk/publications/guessthe.game)
- [gameinformer.com BV $433 · level A A Gaming](https://mxverify.uk/publications/gameinformer.com)
- [videogameschronicle.com BV $418 · level B B Gaming](https://mxverify.uk/publications/videogameschronicle.com)
- [gamedle.wtf BV $108 · level B B Gaming](https://mxverify.uk/publications/gamedle.wtf)

More like it: [Guest post sites](https://mxverify.uk/publications/level/b) · [Backlink sites worth $100 to $249 a link](https://mxverify.uk/publications/value/100-249) · [Gaming blogs and game sites](https://mxverify.uk/publications/category/gaming) · [2000s websites](https://mxverify.uk/publications/registered/2000s)

How to use this report 3 ways to use these figures

- **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. · [Backlink value](https://mxverify.uk/publications/opencritic.com#value) · [what this means](https://mxverify.uk/guide#use)
- **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. · [How BV is worked out](https://mxverify.uk/publications/opencritic.com#bv-detail) · [what this means](https://mxverify.uk/guide#levels)
- **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. · [Traffic in detail](https://mxverify.uk/publications/opencritic.com#traffic) · [what this means](https://mxverify.uk/guide#traffic)

Quick answers about opencritic.com 9 questions answered

### 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](https://mxverify.uk/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](https://mxverify.uk/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.

Source: [third-party traffic estimate, Oct 2026](https://mxverify.uk/publications/opencritic.com#evidence)

### 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](https://developer.chrome.com/docs/crux); [web.dev: Web Vitals](https://web.dev/articles/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](https://mxverify.uk/publications/opencritic.com#reading); [Google Search Central: qualify your outbound links](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/qualify-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](https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9083/)

### 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.

Source: [third-party backlink index, Nov 2026](https://mxverify.uk/publications/opencritic.com#evidence)

### 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 Site Strength 65 / 100 · level B · each factor and link type

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** / 100 ([how Site Strength is worked out](https://mxverify.uk/methodology#reading-a-report)). Traffic: 524.3K estimated monthly organic visits, as of 13 November 2026.
- **Worth up to**: $507 · before relevance — [how it is calculated](https://mxverify.uk/backlink-value#how)
- **Usual link type**: Mostly level B — may be discounted · A 7%, B 59%, C 33%, D 2% → ×0.39 (each level's factor below, weighted by those shares) Read by Jev from our own reading of opencritic.com's homepage and 10 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**: **$200** per link
- **Domain registered**: 9 April 2000 · shown for context ([how age is used](https://mxverify.uk/methodology#reading-a-report))

### A link from opencritic.com, by link type

A link from opencritic.com at each level. [What each level means](https://mxverify.uk/methodology#link-levels).

| 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 10 articles read · each link counted

Read by mxverify on 13 November 2026: the homepage and 10 articles (10 from across its sitemap).

Strong sample 63 links to other sites across 10 articles published Mar 2016 – Oct 2026.

**Links its articles make to other sites**

- Followed 100%
- Nofollow 0%
- Sponsored 0%
- User-generated (ugc) 0%

63 links to other sites across 10 articles, share buttons left out.

**What its homepage offers**

- **Advertising** · “Advertising”

### Articles read

| Article | Published | Words | Links out | Followed | Says |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Bluey's Happy Snaps Reviews - OpenCritic](https://opencritic.com/game/21390/blueys-happy-snaps?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | Oct 2026 | 631 | 9 | 9 | — |
| [Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising Reviews - OpenCritic](https://opencritic.com/game/15972/granblue-fantasy-versus-rising?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | Dec 2023 | 937 | 8 | 8 | — |
| [The Last Guardian Reviews - OpenCritic](https://opencritic.com/game/1524/the-last-guardian?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | Dec 2016 | 546 | 9 | 9 | — |
| [Yoshi's Crafted World Reviews - OpenCritic](https://opencritic.com/game/7138/yoshis-crafted-world?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | Mar 2019 | 495 | 8 | 8 | — |
| [Zero-G Gunfight - OpenCritic](https://opencritic.com/game/16363/zero-g-gunfight?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | Feb 2023 | 246 | 1 | 1 | — |
| [Casey Powell Lacrosse 16 Reviews - OpenCritic](https://opencritic.com/game/2433/casey-powell-lacrosse-16?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | Mar 2016 | 657 | 8 | 8 | — |
| [Syrup and the Ultimate Sweet Reviews - OpenCritic](https://opencritic.com/game/9129/syrup-and-the-ultimate-sweet?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | Mar 2020 | 783 | 9 | 9 | — |
| [Let's Sing 2021 Reviews - OpenCritic](https://opencritic.com/game/10540/lets-sing-2021?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | Nov 2020 | 996 | 9 | 9 | — |
| [Best Hack and Slash Games of All Time - OpenCritic](https://opencritic.com/browse/all/all-time/score/hack-and-slash?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | — | 729 | 1 | 1 | — |
| [Best PlayStation 4 Hack and Slash Games of All Time - OpenCritic](https://opencritic.com/browse/ps4/all-time/score/hack-and-slash?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | — | 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%.

Jev reads it as a directory or launch platform (26%), established as a source (44%), and selling guest, sponsored or paid posts (73%).

Traffic in detail engagement, top keywords, AI assistants · AI crawler access

Modelled estimates for Oct 2026, as of 13 November 2026: site-wide, all visitors, not analytics measured on the site itself.

- **#32,755** global rank
- **#18,232** rank in US
- **47%** bounce rate
- **2.4** pages per visit
- **1m 10s** time on site

**Every channel**

- [Organic search](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/organic-search) 27%
- [Direct](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/direct) 58%
- [Referrals](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/referrals) 5.3%
- [Social](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/social) 9.2%
- AI assistants 0.2%
- [Email](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/email) 0.4%
- [Paid](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/paid) 0.1%
- 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.) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [opencritic](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/opencritic) | 74K | — | — | 69.4K |
| [open critic](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/open-critic) | 74K | — | — | 5,330 |
| [my hero academia](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/my-hero-academia) | 1.2M | $0.60 | $732K | 4,670 |
| [jacob geller](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/jacob-geller) | 33.1K | $0.21 | $6,951 | 4,620 |
| [call of duty modern warfare 4 opencritic](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-4-opencritic) | 700† | — | — | 3,620 |

Searches, CPC and ad value: Google Ads, worldwide, its latest month, where it has the keyword; † third-party traffic estimates where it does not (the two often differ several times over). 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 **3,514** visits in Oct 2026 — 0.2% of all visits. Each assistant's share of those visits, by month:

[Gemini](https://mxverify.uk/publications/ai/gemini) [Claude](https://mxverify.uk/publications/ai/claude)

Gemini: Aug 2026 18%, Sept 2026 6.9%, Oct 2026 99%; Claude: Aug 2026 0%, Sept 2026 0%, Oct 2026 0.5%

| Assistant | Aug 2026 | Sept 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Gemini | 18% | 6.9% | 99% |
| Claude | 0% | 0% | 0.5% |

**AI crawler access**

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 |

Read from opencritic.com/robots.txt on 13 November 2026. robots.txt is a request that crawlers choose to follow; a site can also refuse crawlers at its server, which this card does not see. Google's AI Overviews use Googlebot, so Google-Extended does not affect them.

Third-party traffic estimates. BV uses only the organic-search figure.

Server and network 0 other publications on the server · 127 on the 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 8 figures, their sources and dates

| Figure | Source | What it covers |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [Backlink value](https://mxverify.uk/publications/opencritic.com#value) | BV 2.9 | Site Strength × link type; link type from our reading of the site |
| [Links placed here](https://mxverify.uk/publications/opencritic.com#links) | bklink audits | None audited yet |
| [How it links out](https://mxverify.uk/publications/opencritic.com#reading) | Read by mxverify | 63 links to other sites in 10 articles, published Mar 2016 – Oct 2026; read 13 Nov 2026 Strong sample |
| [Traffic](https://mxverify.uk/publications/opencritic.com#traffic) | Third-party estimates | Modelled estimates for Oct 2026, site-wide and for all visitors, as of 13 Nov 2026 |
| [Links to this site](https://mxverify.uk/publications/opencritic.com#links-in) | Third-party backlink index | 8,516 linking sites, read 13 Nov 2026; one reading a month |
| [Authority](https://mxverify.uk/publications/opencritic.com#value) | 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](https://mxverify.uk/publications/opencritic.com#server) | mxverify's DNS and ASN lookup | 34.206.179.117 · Amazon AWS |
| [Domain age](https://mxverify.uk/publications/opencritic.com#hosting) | Domain registry (RDAP) | Registered 9 Apr 2000 |

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.
- 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.

What each figure means: [How to read a site report](https://mxverify.uk/guide). What every report shares, said once: [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 13 November 2026

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Source: mxverify, "opencritic.com Backlink Value & Traffic Report", https://mxverify.uk/publications/opencritic.com (retrieved 2026-11-13). How every figure is worked out: https://mxverify.uk/methodology