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title: "ramen.tools Backlink Value & Traffic Report"
url: https://mxverify.uk/publications/ramen.tools
description: "ramen.tools: a followed link from it is worth $81 by BV 2.9 (link type B). About 12.5K visits a month, 33% organic. 299 websites link to it."
site: mxverify
generated: 2026-11-07T04:58:39.019Z
---

# Backlink value and traffic report for ramen.tools

**In short:** A new followed link from ramen.tools is worth about $81 to rankings by BV 2.9 (level B, Site Strength 40 of 100); BV is an estimate, not a price anyone charges. It gets about 12.5K visits a month, 33% from organic search, down 30% since Jul 2026. No link placed on it has been audited.

First recorded 01 November 2026 · Last updated 01 November 2026 · [Visit ramen.tools](https://ramen.tools/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report)

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## Backlink value · what one new followed link from ramen.tools is worth to rankings

On DR3 today On DR4 from 1 Dec 2026 Directory pilot · [Domain Rating by Ahrefs](https://ahrefs.com/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report)

[BV **$81** per link · level B · strength 40](https://bklink.uk/methodology?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report#bv)

reading confidence **Nothing to read**

We read the homepage of ramen.tools but found no articles in its feed, sitemap or homepage links, so its BV takes the usual link type.

**Thin evidence.** No links checked, pages read but no articles found: estimated from authority and traffic, with the link type assumed. Priced 7 Nov 2026 · pages read 1 Nov 2026.

**Relevance to the linked site moves it**

**$40** unrelated ×0.5 **$101** same topic ×1.25

**By the kind of link it gives**

- A editorial $174
- B guest, sponsored $87
- C neutralised $17
- D network $8.72

Priced on a blend of link types: B 91% · C 9% → ×0.46.

[BV **$124** per link · level B · strength 50](https://bklink.uk/methodology?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report#bv) +53% against DR3

**Relevance to the linked site moves it**

**$62** unrelated ×0.5 **$155** same topic ×1.25

**By the kind of link it gives**

- A editorial $267
- B guest, sponsored $134
- C neutralised $27
- D network $13

Priced on a blend of link types: B 91% · C 9% → ×0.46.

A preview. The same BV 2.9 with one input changed: the site's Ahrefs Domain Rating on DR4, the model Ahrefs makes live on 1 December 2026, as Ahrefs gave it on 7 Nov 2026. The rest of this report is priced on DR3, the rating in use today.

[How BV is worked out](https://mxverify.uk/publications/ramen.tools#bv-detail) · BV 2.9 · not a price anyone charges

**[12.5K](https://mxverify.uk/publications/ramen.tools#traffic)** monthly visits −30% since Jul 2026

**[4,167](https://mxverify.uk/publications/ramen.tools#traffic)** from organic search 33% of visits

**[#1,996,246](https://mxverify.uk/publications/ramen.tools#traffic)** global rank

**[299](https://mxverify.uk/publications/ramen.tools#links-in)** sites link to it 135 of them nofollow

**[2024](https://mxverify.uk/publications/registered/2020s)** domain registered 2 years ago

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

## How it compares · among 514 technology sites on mxverify

- More monthly visits than 52% of the 514 technology sites on mxverify.
- 33% of its visits come from organic search; the median technology site gets 32%.
- AI assistants send 1.6% of its visits, close to the 1.6% the median technology site gets.
- A new followed link from it is worth more than a link from 73% of technology sites.
- Priced at level B, like 58% of technology sites; 2% 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**

Jul 2026: 17.8K visits; Aug 2026: 19.1K visits; Sept 2026: 12.5K visits

**Where visitors come from**

Direct 40%, Organic search 33%, Referrals 10%, Social 5.7%, Paid 4.6%

- [Direct](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/direct) **40%**
- [Organic search](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/organic-search) **33%**
- [Referrals](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/referrals) **10%**
- [Social](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/social) **5.7%**
- [Paid](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/paid) **4.6%**
- Other channels **6.0%**

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

**Top countries**

- [Vietnam](https://mxverify.uk/publications/audience/vietnam) 26%
- [United States](https://mxverify.uk/publications/audience/united-states) 25%
- [Germany](https://mxverify.uk/publications/audience/germany) 8.9%
- [France](https://mxverify.uk/publications/audience/france) 7.2%
- [India](https://mxverify.uk/publications/audience/india) 7.2%
- Other countries 25%

## Links to this site

Links other sites have made to ramen.tools, from outside link indexes: not the links placed on it that bklink audits.

**299** websites link to it 135 of them with nofollow links

**3,609** links in all, from those websites about 12 per website · first seen 2024

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

**260** IP addresses they link from 219 subnets

**Where the links sit:** 20% in the article or main content of the linking page, 54% in its header, menu, sidebar or footer · 20% in no page section the index could name, the rest in other sections; of the 2,941 links it sorted by where they sit

**Pages in Google:** about 1,840 · the count Google gives for a site: search, its own estimate, which can be far off either way

What Google shows for site:ramen.tools — the first 10 pages

1. [ramen.tools - See what tools 6000+ makers are using](https://ramen.tools/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) ramen.tools/
2. [WhatsApp](https://ramen.tools/whatsapp?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) ramen.tools/whatsapp
3. [Vercel](https://ramen.tools/vercel?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) ramen.tools/vercel
4. [GitHub](https://ramen.tools/github?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) ramen.tools/github
5. [jQuery](https://ramen.tools/jquery?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) ramen.tools/jquery
6. [Spotify](https://ramen.tools/spotify?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) ramen.tools/spotify
7. [Laravel](https://ramen.tools/laravel?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) ramen.tools/laravel
8. [LinkedIn](https://ramen.tools/linkedin?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) ramen.tools/linkedin
9. [React](https://ramen.tools/react?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) ramen.tools/react
10. [Mailchimp](https://ramen.tools/mailchimp?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) ramen.tools/mailchimp

Sources: link counts and spam score from a third-party backlink index, read 02 November 2026; the chart grows by one reading a month; page count and pages from a Google site: search, 02 November 2026. BV prices on one of these only, the page count: when two site: searches at least 7 days apart both find no pages, and nothing on record shows Google indexing the site, a link from it is priced at most level C.

## Links placed here

No link placed on ramen.tools 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 ramen.tools is nofollow. It is followed when the site's owner audits ramen.tools'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 articles found to read from its feed, sitemap or homepage.

Read 1 Nov 2026 · [the full reading](https://mxverify.uk/publications/ramen.tools#reading)

## Domain and hosting

- **Domain registered**: [25 January 2024](https://mxverify.uk/publications/registered/2020s)
- **Content category**: [technology](https://mxverify.uk/publications/category/technology)
- **Server address**: 104.21.76.83 · CDN edge, shared by unrelated sites
- **Hosting network**: Cloudflare (CDN) · AS13335 · US

## Tech stack

- [Served byCloudflare](https://mxverify.uk/publications/tech/cloudflare)

### 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: not linked from the homepage

Structured data: none on the homepage. The homepage only; BV does not price on these.

### Page speed

Chrome users, 28 days to 30 Oct 2026: LCP 1.9 s · INP 47 ms · CLS 0.01 — passes Core Web Vitals. Data from the Chrome UX Report (Google), CC BY 4.0.

Devices: 17% phone · 83% desktop — share of Chrome page loads, same 28 days.

Sources: homepage read 02 Nov 2026.

## Similar sites

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

- [aistart.ai BV $67 · level B B Product launch platforms](https://mxverify.uk/publications/aistart.ai)
- [makermap.lol BV $46 · level B B Product launch platforms](https://mxverify.uk/publications/makermap.lol)
- [kittylaunch.com BV $127 · level B B Product launch platforms](https://mxverify.uk/publications/kittylaunch.com)
- [indiehackerstacks.com BV $47 · level B B Product launch platforms](https://mxverify.uk/publications/indiehackerstacks.com)
- [submityourstartup.now BV $27 · level B B Product launch platforms](https://mxverify.uk/publications/submityourstartup.now)
- [smollaunch.com BV $41 · level B · nofollow C Product launch platforms](https://mxverify.uk/publications/smollaunch.com)

More like it: [Guest post sites](https://mxverify.uk/publications/level/b) · [Backlink sites worth $50 to $99 a link](https://mxverify.uk/publications/value/50-99) · [Technology write for us sites and tech blogs](https://mxverify.uk/publications/category/technology) · [New websites](https://mxverify.uk/publications/registered/2020s)

How to use this report 3 ways to use these figures

- **Price check.** BV puts one new followed link from ramen.tools at $81 (level B), priced on a blend of link types (B 91% · C 9%), for a linked site outside the piracy niche: $40 to an unrelated site (×0.5), $101 to a same-topic site (×1.25). A followed editorial link (level A) would be worth up to $174 before relevance. A quote far above $101 for the link it usually gives, to a site outside the piracy niche, pays for what BV does not measure. A link from it to a site in the piracy niche is not capped: about $87, or $109 on the same topic. · [Backlink value](https://mxverify.uk/publications/ramen.tools#value) · [what this means](https://mxverify.uk/guide#use)
- **Qualification and risk.** Its Site Strength is 40 / 100; the link it usually gives is mostly level B — may be discounted (a guest, sponsored or listed link). BV applies the high-risk niche cap: it is 9% likely a piracy site, and a link from such a site to an unrelated one is discounted. The spam score of its links is 12 (0–100, the linking pages' average), not ramen.tools's own. · [How BV is worked out](https://mxverify.uk/publications/ramen.tools#bv-detail) · [what this means](https://mxverify.uk/guide#levels)
- **Traffic reality check.** Set any traffic claim beside the Sept 2026 estimate: 12.5K monthly visits, 33% from organic search (4,167). Visits fell 30% from Jul 2026 to Sept 2026. Its top keyword by Visits (est.) is “nachopr”, about 210 a month; the ad value beside it is the whole market's. · [Traffic in detail](https://mxverify.uk/publications/ramen.tools#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 ramen.tools 8 questions answered

### What is a link from ramen.tools 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 ramen.tools is worth about $81 (level B, for a linked site outside its high-risk niche). Relevance moves it: $40 to an unrelated site, $101 to a same-topic site.

In short: a link from ramen.tools is worth about $81 to rankings, up to $101 on the same topic.

Source: [mxverify BV 2.9 methodology](https://mxverify.uk/methodology)

### Is a link from ramen.tools worth placing?

That depends on the kind of link: by BV 2.9, a link from ramen.tools is worth $174 as an editorial citation (level A), $87 as a guest, sponsored or listed link (level B), $17 as a press-release, syndicated, profile or forum link (level C), $8.72 as a network link (level D), before relevance. A price far above $101 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 ramen.tools's BV compare with other sites?

At about $81 a link, ramen.tools is in the “$50 to $99” value band, with 401 of the 4,471 sites valued on mxverify. 589 sites are in a higher band.

In short: 589 of the 4,471 valued sites sit in a higher value band than ramen.tools.

Source: mxverify's own directory, counted at the last daily update

### How much traffic does ramen.tools get?

ramen.tools gets about 12.5K visits a month (Sept 2026), by a modelled estimate of all its visitors, not analytics measured on the site. 33% of them (4,167) come from organic search. Visits fell 30% from Jul 2026 to Sept 2026.

In short: ramen.tools draws about 12.5K visits a month, down 30% since Jul 2026.

Source: [third-party traffic estimate, Sept 2026](https://mxverify.uk/publications/ramen.tools#evidence)

### Does ramen.tools pass Core Web Vitals?

Yes: real Chrome users see ramen.tools's largest content load in 1.9 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: ramen.tools passes Core Web Vitals on real-user data.

Source: [Chrome UX Report, 28 days to 30 Oct 2026](https://developer.chrome.com/docs/crux); [web.dev: Web Vitals](https://web.dev/articles/vitals)

### How old is ramen.tools?

The domain ramen.tools was registered in 2024, 2 years ago.

Source: the public registration record; [RFC 9083: RDAP JSON responses](https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9083/)

### How many sites link to ramen.tools?

299 websites link to ramen.tools, each counted once. 135 of them (45%) link with nofollow.

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

### Has ramen.tools been audited?

No link placed on ramen.tools 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: ramen.tools's report is valued, not audited.

How BV is worked out Site Strength 40 / 100 · level B · each factor and link type

A followed editorial link from ramen.tools would be worth up to $174 under BV 2.9, before relevance: its Site Strength is 40 out of 100. The link it usually gives is level B, worth about $81 — and relevance to the site it points to moves that between $40 and $101.

- **Site Strength**: **40** / 100 ([how Site Strength is worked out](https://mxverify.uk/methodology#reading-a-report)). Traffic: 4,167 estimated monthly organic visits, as of 1 November 2026.
- **Worth up to**: $174 · before relevance — [how it is calculated](https://mxverify.uk/backlink-value#how)
- **Usual link type**: Mostly level B — may be discounted · B 91%, C 9% → ×0.46 (each level's factor below, weighted by those shares) We read the homepage but found no articles to read, and no link placed here has been audited, so the default for a link inside an article applies. The table below shows the other levels. It is 9% likely a piracy site, going by what traffic data reports about it: its title, description and top searches. BV 2.9 values a link from it for a buyer outside piracy: search engines discount a link from such a site to an unrelated one, so it is at most level C with that probability, as in an audit. A buyer in piracy is not capped: about $87 a link.
- **Relevance to your site**: ×1 · neutral here ([range in an audit](https://mxverify.uk/methodology#reading-a-report))
- **BV score**: **$81** per link
- **Domain registered**: 25 January 2024 · shown for context ([how age is used](https://mxverify.uk/methodology#reading-a-report))

### A link from ramen.tools, by link type

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

| Level | Factor | Value |
| --- | --- | --- |
| A — Counted | ×1 | $174 |
| B — May be discounted | ×0.5 | $87 |
| C — Usually neutralised | ×0.1 | $17 |
| D — Network | ×0.05 | $8.72 |

How ramen.tools links out: the full reading 0 articles read · each link counted

Read by mxverify on 1 November 2026: the homepage and no articles — none could be found from its feed, sitemap or 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.

**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.

Jev has not judged this reading yet, so the link type is set by fixed rules.

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

Modelled estimates for Sept 2026, as of 1 November 2026: site-wide, all visitors, not analytics measured on the site itself.

- **#1,996,246** global rank
- **#2,206,004** rank in US
- **40%** bounce rate
- **1.4** pages per visit
- **5s** time on site

**Every channel**

- [Organic search](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/organic-search) 33%
- [Direct](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/direct) 40%
- [Referrals](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/referrals) 10%
- [Social](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/social) 5.7%
- AI assistants 1.6%
- [Email](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/email) 2.7%
- [Paid](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/paid) 4.6%
- Affiliate and other 1.6%

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.) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [nachopr](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/nachopr) | 10 | — | — | 210 |
| [xem phim quy nhap trang 2 online](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/xem-phim-quy-nhap-trang-2-online) | 780† | — | — | 100 |
| [sam tts](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/sam-tts) | 14.8K | $2.09 | $30.9K | 60 |
| [heo 5 mong vietsub](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/heo-5-mong-vietsub) | 20 | — | — | 60 |
| [quỷ nhập tràng phần 2 xem](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/qu%E1%BB%B7-nh%E1%BA%ADp-tr%C3%A0ng-ph%E1%BA%A7n-2-xem) | 70† | — | — | 60 |

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 **202** visits in Sept 2026 — 1.6% of all visits. Each assistant's share of those visits, by month:

[Gemini](https://mxverify.uk/publications/ai/gemini) [ChatGPT](https://mxverify.uk/publications/ai/chatgpt)

Gemini: Aug 2026 0%, Sept 2026 66%; ChatGPT: Aug 2026 17%, Sept 2026 34%

| Assistant | Aug 2026 | Sept 2026 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Gemini | 0% | 66% |
| ChatGPT | 17% | 34% |

Jul 2026: no data — every assistant reads 0, so that month is not charted.

At this volume the shares swing hard month to month: a handful of visits can move an assistant from 0% to 100%.

**AI crawler access**

ramen.tools'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 ramen.tools/robots.txt on 2 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 a CDN edge, shared by unrelated sites

Its domain was registered in 2024.

mxverify looked up ramen.tools's address: it 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 8 figures, their sources and dates

| Figure | Source | What it covers |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [Backlink value](https://mxverify.uk/publications/ramen.tools#value) | BV 2.9 | Site Strength × link type; link type at the default until the site is read or audited |
| [Links placed here](https://mxverify.uk/publications/ramen.tools#links) | bklink audits | None audited yet |
| [How it links out](https://mxverify.uk/publications/ramen.tools#reading) | Read by mxverify | Homepage read 1 Nov 2026; no articles found to read Thin sample |
| [Traffic](https://mxverify.uk/publications/ramen.tools#traffic) | Third-party estimates | Modelled estimates for Sept 2026, site-wide and for all visitors, as of 1 Nov 2026 |
| [Links to this site](https://mxverify.uk/publications/ramen.tools#links-in) | Third-party backlink index | 299 linking sites, read 2 Nov 2026; one reading a month |
| [Authority](https://mxverify.uk/publications/ramen.tools#value) | Ahrefs Domain Rating | Half of Site Strength, shown in steps of 5, as of 7 Nov 2026; the rating itself is not shown |
| [Server and network](https://mxverify.uk/publications/ramen.tools#server) | mxverify's DNS and ASN lookup | 104.21.76.83 · Cloudflare (CDN) · a CDN edge, shared by unrelated sites |
| [Domain age](https://mxverify.uk/publications/ramen.tools#hosting) | Domain registry (RDAP) | Registered 25 Jan 2024 |

Limitations: what this report does not show 4 stated plainly

- 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.
- ramen.tools gives more than one kind of link (B 91% · C 9%), so BV prices a blend of them: an editorial link there would be worth $174 and a guest or sponsored one $87, before relevance.
- ramen.tools's visits fell 30% from Jul 2026 to Sept 2026. Half of Site Strength is organic search traffic, so a fall that lasts lowers BV when the figure is next read.

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 01 November 2026

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Source: mxverify, "ramen.tools Backlink Value & Traffic Report", https://mxverify.uk/publications/ramen.tools (retrieved 2026-11-07). How every figure is worked out: https://mxverify.uk/methodology
