What a link is worthBacklink value and traffic report for rockstargames.com
In short: A new followed link from rockstargames.com is worth about $445 to rankings by BV 2.9 (level B, Site Strength 80 of 100). It gets about 17.4M visits a month, 49% from organic search, down 11% since Aug 2026. No link placed on it has been audited.
The badge shows what a link from rockstargames.com is worth, as this report does, and updates by itself. It links to this report.
Backlink value · what one new followed link from rockstargames.com is worth to rankings
BV$445per link · level B · strength 80reading confidenceLow, 29 out of 100
Reading confidence 29 / 100
3 of 8 pages read had text · 7 links to other sites seen · posts from Nov 2026
How much of rockstargames.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.
$223 unrelated ×0.5$556 same topic ×1.25
How it compares · among 382 company and product sites on mxverify
- More monthly visits than 90% of the 382 company and product sites on mxverify.
- 49% of its visits come from organic search; the median company site gets 31%.
- AI assistants send 0.5% of its visits, about 40% of the 1.2% the median company site gets.
- A new followed link from it is worth more than a link from 96% of company and product sites.
- Priced at level B, like 58% of company and product sites; 3% are level A.
- Organic search49%
- Direct30%
- Social7.7%
- Email5.1%
- Paid4.7%
- Other channels3.8%
Links to this site
Links other sites have made to rockstargames.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, 18% in its header, menu, sidebar or footer
Links placed here
No link placed on rockstargames.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
- 01 December 1998
- Registration expires
- 30 November 2027
- Record last changed
- 29 October 2025
- Server address
- 23.201.254.43
- Hosting network
- Akamai (CDN)
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: not linked from the homepage
Page speed
Chrome users, 28 days to 9 Nov 2026: LCP 4.4 s · INP 259 ms · CLS 0.07 — does not pass Core Web Vitals.
Devices: 64% phone · 35% desktop · 2% tablet — share of Chrome page loads, same 28 days.
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How to use this report
- Price check. BV puts one new followed link from rockstargames.com at $445 (level B), priced on a blend of link types (B 90% · C 10%): $223 to an unrelated site (×0.5), $556 to a same-topic site (×1.25). A followed editorial link (level A) would be worth up to $963 before relevance. A quote far above $602 for a level B link pays for what BV does not measure.
- Qualification and risk. Its Site Strength is 80 / 100; the link it usually gives is mostly level B — may be discounted (a guest, sponsored or listed link). In the 8 articles we read, 0% of the links to other sites are nofollow, sponsored or ugc. The spam score of its links is 14 (0–100, the linking pages' average), not rockstargames.com's own.
- Traffic reality check. Set any traffic claim beside the Oct 2026 estimate: 17.4M monthly visits, 49% from organic search (8.5M). Visits fell 11% from Aug 2026 to Oct 2026. Its top keyword by Visits (est.) is “gta 6”, about 1.7M a month; the ad value beside it is the whole market's.
Quick answers about rockstargames.com
What is a link from rockstargames.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 rockstargames.com is worth about $445 (level B). Relevance moves it: $223 to an unrelated site, $556 to a same-topic site.
In short: a link from rockstargames.com is worth about $445 to rankings, up to $556 on the same topic.
Source: mxverify BV 2.9 methodology
Is a link from rockstargames.com worth placing?
That depends on the kind of link: by BV 2.9, a link from rockstargames.com is worth $963 as an editorial citation (level A), $482 as a guest, sponsored or listed link (level B), $96 as a press-release, syndicated, profile or forum link (level C), $48 as a network link (level D), before relevance. A price far above $602 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 rockstargames.com's BV compare with other sites?
At about $445 a link, rockstargames.com is in the “$250 to $499” value band, with 175 of the 4,532 sites valued on mxverify. 55 sites are in a higher band.
In short: 55 of the 4,532 valued sites sit in a higher value band than rockstargames.com.
Source: mxverify's own directory, counted at the last daily update
How much traffic does rockstargames.com get?
rockstargames.com gets about 17.4M visits a month (Oct 2026), by a modelled estimate of all its visitors, not analytics measured on the site. 49% of them (8.5M) come from organic search. Visits fell 11% from Aug 2026 to Oct 2026.
In short: rockstargames.com draws about 17.4M visits a month, down 11% since Aug 2026.
Does rockstargames.com pass Core Web Vitals?
No: real Chrome users see rockstargames.com's largest content load in 4.4 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: rockstargames.com does not pass Core Web Vitals on real-user data.
Source: Chrome UX Report, 28 days to 9 Nov 2026; web.dev: Web Vitals
Does rockstargames.com link out with nofollow?
In the 8 articles we read, rockstargames.com made 7 links to other sites, and 0% of them were nofollow, sponsored or ugc; the other 100% were followed.
Source: mxverify's reading of 8 articles, 12 Nov 2026; Google Search Central: qualify your outbound links
How old is rockstargames.com?
The domain rockstargames.com was registered in 1998, 27 years ago.
Source: the public registration record; RFC 9083: RDAP JSON responses
How many sites link to rockstargames.com?
40,909 websites link to rockstargames.com, each counted once. 8,993 of them (22%) link with nofollow.
Has rockstargames.com been audited?
No link placed on rockstargames.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: rockstargames.com's report is valued, not audited.
How BV is worked out
A followed editorial link from rockstargames.com would be worth up to $963 under BV 2.9, before relevance: its Site Strength is 80 out of 100. The link it usually gives is level B, worth about $445 — and relevance to the site it points to moves that between $223 and $556.
- Site Strength
- 80
- Worth up to
- $963
- Usual link type
- Mostly level B — may be discounted · B 90%, C 10% → ×0.46
- Relevance to your site
- ×1
- BV score
- $445 per link
- Domain registered
- 1 December 1998
A link from rockstargames.com, by link type
A link from rockstargames.com at each level. What each level means.
| Level | Factor | Value |
|---|---|---|
| A — Counted | ×1 | $963 |
| B — May be discounted | ×0.5 | $482 |
| C — Usually neutralised | ×0.1 | $96 |
| D — Network | ×0.05 | $48 |
How rockstargames.com links out: the full reading
Read by mxverify on 12 November 2026: the homepage and 8 articles (8 linked from its homepage).
Thin sample
Articles read
Jev, the model that judges every link in a bklink audit, reads these pages as a site whose links are mostly level B — A 26%, B 70%, C 4.0%, 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 0.2%, B 90%, C 9.8%, D 0%.
Traffic in detail
Modelled estimates for Oct 2026, as of 12 November 2026: site-wide, all visitors, not analytics measured on the site itself.
| Keyword | Searches / mo | CPC | Ad value / mo | Visits (est.) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| gta 6 | 11.1M | $0.21 | $2.3M | 1.7M |
| rockstar | 1.5M | $0.34 | $510K | 1M |
| rockstar games | 1M | $0.16 | $160K | 540.6K |
| grand theft auto vi | 5M | $0.24 | $1.2M | 222.6K |
| gta6 | 609.1K† | $0.25† | $152.3K† | 203K |
AI assistants
AI assistants sent about 94.2K visits in Oct 2026 — 0.5% of all visits. Each assistant's share of those visits, by month:
| Assistant | Aug 2026 | Sept 2026 | Oct 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | 86% | 59% | 28% |
| Gemini | 13% | 3.6% | 7.7% |
| Perplexity | 0.8% | 0.0% | 1.5% |
rockstargames.com's robots.txt asks 5 of the 10 AI crawlers below not to read the site, all of them ones that collect training data.
| 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 | Disallowed |
 Anthropic ClaudeBot | Disallowed |
 Google Google-Extended | Allowed |
 Apple Applebot-Extended | Disallowed |
 Meta Meta-ExternalAgent | Disallowed |
 ByteDance Bytespider | Allowed |
 Common Crawl CCBot | Disallowed |
Potential display-ad revenue
$40,000–$200,000a month, estimated
- 98.8M pageviews a month: 17.4M visits × 5.7 pages per visit (Oct 2026)
- Niche: not identified · general page RPM $1–$5 per 1,000 pageviews
- 25% of visits from the US, the UK, Canada and Australia; other countries counted at 20% of the rate
- It runs no display ads we can see today: this is what it could earn if it did
Server and network
Its domain was registered in 1998.
mxverify looked up rockstargames.com's address: it is served through Akamai (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.
Akamai (CDN) fronts 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 | 7 links to other sites in 8 articles, published Nov 2026; read 12 Nov 2026 Thin sample |
| Traffic | Third-party estimates | Modelled estimates for Oct 2026, site-wide and for all visitors, as of 12 Nov 2026 |
| Links to this site | Third-party backlink index | 40,909 linking sites, read 12 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 | 23.201.254.43 · Akamai (CDN) · a CDN edge, shared by unrelated sites |
| Domain age | Domain registry (RDAP) | Registered 1 Dec 1998 |
| Potential display-ad revenue | mxverify estimate | Traffic estimate's pageviews for Oct 2026 × the general page RPM benchmark × country factor, worked out Nov 2026; not the site's earnings |
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.
- rockstargames.com gives more than one kind of link (B 90% · C 10%), so BV prices a blend of them: an editorial link there would be worth $963 and a guest or sponsored one $482, before relevance.
- rockstargames.com's visits fell 11% from Aug 2026 to Oct 2026. Half of Site Strength is organic search traffic, so a fall that lasts lowers BV when the figure is next read.
Social profiles
Profiles rockstargames.com names for itself, read 12 Nov 2026 · how these are read
The profiles rockstargames.com names for itself, in its structured data or linked from its homepage, read 12 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.
On since is the year the account began. Posts and videos are all-time totals. All read from each profile page.