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protocols.io backlink value and site report
It is served through Cloudflare (CDN), a content delivery network, so its address is shared edge infrastructure and says nothing about who runs it. Its domain was registered in 2012.
The badge shows what a link from protocols.io is worth, as this report does, and updates by itself. It links to this report.
Backlink value · what one new followed link from protocols.io is worth to rankings
BV$54per link · level C · strength 65$27 unrelated ×0.5$67 same topic ×1.25
- Organic search46%
- Direct39%
- Referrals6.4%
- Social2.8%
- AI assistants2.7%
- Other channels3.1%
Links placed here
No link placed on protocols.io 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 7 articles read.
Tech stack
Page speed
Chrome users, 28 days to 27 Sept 2026: LCP 4.5 s · INP 117 ms · CLS 0.00 — does not pass Core Web Vitals.
Domain and hosting
- Domain registered
- 11 April 2012
- Server address
- 104.26.15.162
- Hosting network
- Cloudflare (CDN)
How BV is worked out
A followed editorial link from protocols.io would be worth up to $507 under BV 2.5, before relevance: its Site Strength is 65 out of 100. The link it usually gives is level C, worth about $54 — and relevance to the site it points to moves that between $27 and $67.
- Site Strength
- 65
- Worth up to
- $507
- Usual link type
- Mostly level C — usually neutralised · B 1%, C 99% → ×0.11
- Relevance to your site
- ×1
- BV score
- $54 per link
- Domain registered
- 11 April 2012
A link from protocols.io, 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 protocols.io links out: the full reading
Read by mxverify on 29 September 2026: the homepage and 7 articles (8 from across its sitemap, 2 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
| Article | Published | Words | Links out | Followed | Says |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Become an active contributor on protocols.io | — | 62 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Industry Case Study | — | 137 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Policy to Support Name Changes on Your Publications | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| What is a protocol | — | 139 | 0 | 0 | — |
| We will import and format your protocol | — | 281 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Academia Case Study | — | 137 | 0 | 0 | — |
| How to make your protocol more reproducible, discoverable, and user-friendly V.4 | Oct 2020 | 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 91%, B 2.0%, C 7.0%, 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 0.4%, B 0.5%, C 99%, D 0%.
Traffic in detail
Modelled estimates for Aug 2026, as of 29 September 2026: site-wide, all visitors, not analytics measured on the site itself.
| Keyword | Searches / mo | CPC | Traffic value |
|---|---|---|---|
| protocols | 8,070 | $2.51 | $540 |
| cut&run protocol.io | 190 | $0.00 | $370 |
| protocol | 46.9K | $2.38 | $360 |
| arima cifi protocol low input | 360 | $0.00 | $300 |
| protocols.io | 350 | $0.00 | $300 |
AI assistants
AI assistants sent about 7,117 visits in Aug 2026 — 2.7% of all visits. Each assistant's share of those visits, by month:
ChatGPTClaudePerplexity
| Assistant | Jun 2026 | Jul 2026 | Aug 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | 72% | 33% | 65% |
| Claude | 0% | 1.3% | 18% |
| Perplexity | 0% | 0% | 14% |
Server and network
protocols.io is served through Cloudflare (CDN), a content delivery network. Its address is shared edge infrastructure used by unrelated sites, so it cannot show who else runs on the same server, and sharing the network is no sign of a connection.
Cloudflare (CDN) fronts 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 2.5 | 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 7 articles, published Oct 2020; read 29 Sept 2026 Thin sample |
| Traffic | Third-party estimates | Modelled estimates for Aug 2026, site-wide and for all visitors, as of 29 Sept 2026 |
| Authority | Ahrefs Domain Rating | Half of Site Strength, shown in steps of 5, as of 29 Sept 2026; the rating itself is not shown |
| Server and network | DNS and ASN registry | 104.26.15.162 · Cloudflare (CDN) · a CDN edge, shared by unrelated sites |
| Domain age | Domain registry (RDAP) | Registered 11 Apr 2012 |
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 CDN address is shared by unrelated sites, so it says nothing about ownership; no neighbours are listed for it.
- 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 protocols.io 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.