--- title: "Backlink Value & Traffic Report for short.io" url: https://mxverify.uk/publications/short.io description: "short.io: a followed link from it is worth $87 by BV 2.9 (link type C). 7,013 websites link to it. Not yet audited. Served through Cloudflare (CDN)." site: mxverify generated: 2026-11-01T07:33:29.305Z --- mxverify · valued # Backlink value and traffic report for short.io **In short:** A new followed link from short.io is worth about $87 to rankings by BV 2.9 (level C, Site Strength 65 of 100); BV is an estimate, not a price anyone charges. It gets about 694.5K visits a month, 11% from organic search, down 1.8% since Jul 2026. No link placed on it has been audited. First recorded 01 November 2026 · Last updated 01 November 2026 · [Visit short.io](https://short.io/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) [Compare](https://mxverify.uk/compare/short.io#add) Show short.io's BV badge on your site The badge shows what a link from short.io is worth, as this report does, and updates by itself. It links to this report. Embed code (HTML) Copied Paste it where the badge should appear. ## Backlink value · what one new followed link from short.io is worth to rankings [BV **$87** per link · level C · strength 65](https://bklink.uk/methodology?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report#bv) reading confidence **Fair, 50 out of 100** Reading confidence 50 / 100 - What we read 61 - Our model's certainty 74 - Its view of the pages 63 10 of 10 pages read had text · 1 link to other sites seen How much of short.io 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/short.io#reading) **Relevance to the linked site moves it** **$43** unrelated ×0.5 **$109** 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 1% · B 15% · C 80% · D 3% → ×0.17. [How BV is worked out](https://mxverify.uk/publications/short.io#bv-detail) · BV 2.9 · not a price anyone charges **[694.5K](https://mxverify.uk/publications/short.io#traffic)** monthly visits −1.8% since Jul 2026 **[75.6K](https://mxverify.uk/publications/short.io#traffic)** from organic search 11% of visits **[7,013](https://mxverify.uk/publications/short.io#links-in)** sites link to it 5,532 of them nofollow **[2009](https://mxverify.uk/publications/registered/2000s)** domain registered expires Apr 2028 **[2.2 s](https://mxverify.uk/publications/short.io#tech)** page load for real users (LCP) passes Core Web Vitals ## In its own words > Advanced URL shortening and link management platform for businesses, marketing teams, and developers From short.io's [llms.txt](https://short.io/llms.txt?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report), the file a site publishes to describe itself to AI assistants, fetched 1 November 2026. The words are the site's own; mxverify has not checked them. Its file lists 8 sections: Overview, Complete Feature List, Use Cases, Technical Specifications, Pricing Model, Key Differentiators, Target Audience, Platform Benefits. **Monthly visits** Jul 2026: 707.5K visits; Aug 2026: 751.3K visits; Sept 2026: 694.5K visits **Where visitors come from** Direct 66%, Paid 13%, Organic search 11%, Social 3.5%, Referrals 3.0% - [Direct](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/direct) **66%** - [Paid](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/paid) **13%** - [Organic search](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/organic-search) **11%** - [Social](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/social) **3.5%** - [Referrals](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/referrals) **3.0%** - Other channels **3.8%** Organic search, in green, is the traffic BV prices on. **Top countries** - [United States](https://mxverify.uk/publications/audience/united-states) 17% - [India](https://mxverify.uk/publications/audience/india) 10.0% - [Indonesia](https://mxverify.uk/publications/audience/indonesia) 8.3% - [Brazil](https://mxverify.uk/publications/audience/brazil) 8.0% - [Sweden](https://mxverify.uk/publications/audience/sweden) 3.3% - Other countries 53% ## Links to this site Links other sites have made to short.io, from outside link indexes: not the links placed on it that bklink audits. **7,013** websites link to it 5,532 of them with nofollow links **127.7K** links in all, from those websites about 18 per website · first seen 2019 **54** spam score of its links 0–100, the linking pages' average **1,622** IP addresses they link from 1,057 subnets **Where the links sit:** 6.7% in the article or main content of the linking page, 2.5% in its header, menu, sidebar or footer · 86% in no page section the index could name, the rest in other sections; of the 70.3K links it sorted by where they sit Sources: link counts and spam score from a third-party backlink index, read 01 November 2026; the chart grows by one reading a month. BV prices on none of these. ## Links placed here No link placed on short.io 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 short.io is nofollow. It is followed when the site's owner audits short.io'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 **1** links to other sites **10** articles read Followed 100% Thin sample Read 1 Nov 2026 · [the full reading](https://mxverify.uk/publications/short.io#reading) ## Tech stack short.io's homepage has not been read yet; every site with a report is read within a few days. ### Page speed Chrome users, 28 days to 30 Oct 2026: LCP 2.2 s · INP 152 ms · CLS 0.01 — passes Core Web Vitals. Data from the Chrome UX Report (Google), CC BY 4.0. Devices: 70% phone · 30% desktop — share of Chrome page loads, same 28 days. ## Domain and hosting - **Domain registered**: [27 April 2009](https://mxverify.uk/publications/registered/2000s) - **Registration expires**: 27 April 2028 - **Server address**: 172.66.160.56 · CDN edge, shared by unrelated sites - **Hosting network**: Cloudflare (CDN) · AS13335 · US ## Similar sites Matched on the subject the two sites share. Never a site on the same server or network. - [rebrandly.com BV $281 · level B B Link shorteners and link-in-bio](https://mxverify.uk/publications/rebrandly.com) - [spoo.me BV $30 · level C C Link shorteners and link-in-bio](https://mxverify.uk/publications/spoo.me) - [lnkk.it BV $20 · level C C Link shorteners and link-in-bio](https://mxverify.uk/publications/lnkk.it) - [capsulink.com BV $33 · level C C Link shorteners and link-in-bio](https://mxverify.uk/publications/capsulink.com) More like it: [Forum, profile and PR backlink sites](https://mxverify.uk/publications/level/c) · [Backlink sites worth $50 to $99 a link](https://mxverify.uk/publications/value/50-99) · [2000s websites](https://mxverify.uk/publications/registered/2000s) How to use this report 4 ways to use these figures - **Price check.** BV puts one new followed link from short.io at $87 (level C), priced on a blend of link types (A 1% · B 15% · C 80% · D 3%): $43 to an unrelated site (×0.5), $109 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 $63 for a level C link pays for what BV does not measure. · [Backlink value](https://mxverify.uk/publications/short.io#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 C — usually neutralised (a press-release, syndicated, profile or forum link). The spam score of its links is 54 (0–100, the linking pages' average), not short.io's own. · [How BV is worked out](https://mxverify.uk/publications/short.io#bv-detail) · [what this means](https://mxverify.uk/guide#levels) - **Traffic reality check.** Set any traffic claim beside the Sept 2026 estimate: 694.5K monthly visits, 11% from organic search (75.6K). Visits fell 1.8% from Jul 2026 to Sept 2026. Its top keyword by Visits (est.) is “bitly”, about 8,290 a month; the ad value beside it is the whole market's. · [Traffic in detail](https://mxverify.uk/publications/short.io#traffic) · [what this means](https://mxverify.uk/guide#traffic) - **AI assistant visits.** 2.0% of its visits in Sept 2026 came from AI assistants' answers, about 14K (visits, not citations); ChatGPT sent the most in Sept 2026, 82% of them. The split moved a lot between months (ChatGPT from 72% in Jul 2026 to 99% in Aug 2026): read it as a snapshot, not a trend. · [AI assistants](https://mxverify.uk/publications/short.io#ai-assistants) · [what this means](https://mxverify.uk/guide#ai) What each figure means, and what it cannot tell you: [How to read a site report](https://mxverify.uk/guide). Quick answers about short.io 8 questions answered ### What is a link from short.io 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 short.io is worth about $87 (level C). Relevance moves it: $43 to an unrelated site, $109 to a same-topic site. In short: a link from short.io is worth about $87 to rankings, up to $109 on the same topic. Source: [mxverify BV 2.9 methodology](https://mxverify.uk/methodology) ### Is a link from short.io worth placing? That depends on the kind of link: by BV 2.9, a link from short.io 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 $63 for a level C 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 short.io's BV compare with other sites? At about $87 a link, short.io is in the “$50 to $99” value band, with 346 of the 4,018 sites valued on mxverify. 483 sites are in a higher band. In short: 483 of the 4,018 valued sites sit in a higher value band than short.io. Source: mxverify's own directory, counted at the last daily update ### How much traffic does short.io get? short.io gets about 694.5K visits a month (Sept 2026), by a modelled estimate of all its visitors, not analytics measured on the site. 11% of them (75.6K) come from organic search. Visits fell 1.8% from Jul 2026 to Sept 2026. In short: short.io draws about 694.5K visits a month, down 1.8% since Jul 2026. Source: [third-party traffic estimate, Sept 2026](https://mxverify.uk/publications/short.io#evidence) ### Does short.io pass Core Web Vitals? Yes: real Chrome users see short.io's largest content load in 2.2 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: short.io 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 short.io? The domain short.io was registered in 2009, 17 years ago. Source: the public registration record; [RFC 9083: RDAP JSON responses](https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9083/) ### How many sites link to short.io? 7,013 websites link to short.io, each counted once. 5,532 of them (79%) link with nofollow. Source: [third-party backlink index, Nov 2026](https://mxverify.uk/publications/short.io#evidence) ### Has short.io been audited? No link placed on short.io 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: short.io's report is valued, not audited. How BV is worked out Site Strength 65 / 100 · level C · each factor and link type A followed editorial link from short.io 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 C, worth about $87 — and relevance to the site it points to moves that between $43 and $109. - **Site Strength**: **65** / 100 ([how Site Strength is worked out](https://mxverify.uk/methodology#reading-a-report)). Traffic: 75.6K estimated monthly organic visits, as of 1 November 2026. - **Worth up to**: $507 · before relevance — [how it is calculated](https://mxverify.uk/backlink-value#how) - **Usual link type**: Mostly level C — usually neutralised · A 1%, B 15%, C 80%, D 3% → ×0.17 (each level's factor below, weighted by those shares) Read by Jev from our own reading of short.io'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**: **$87** per link - **Domain registered**: 27 April 2009 · shown for context ([how age is used](https://mxverify.uk/methodology#reading-a-report)) ### A link from short.io, by link type A link from short.io 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 short.io links out: the full reading 10 articles read · each link counted Read by mxverify on 1 November 2026: the homepage and 10 articles (10 from across its sitemap). 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 1 link to other sites across 10 articles. Strong takes six or more articles and thirty or more links, spread over at least two months where the articles are dated. **Links its articles make to other sites** - Followed 100% - Nofollow 0% - Sponsored 0% - User-generated (ugc) 0% 1 link to other sites across 10 articles, share buttons left out. **What its homepage offers** No guest-post, sponsored-post or advertising pages linked from the homepage. ### Articles read | Article | Words | Links out | Followed | Says | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [301 redirect code](https://short.io/ar/features/301-redirect-code?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | 359 | 0 | 0 | — | | [Редактиране на URL shortcode (slug)](https://short.io/bg/features/url-shortcode-editing?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | 331 | 0 | 0 | — | | [Free QR code debugger - decode and inspect QR codes \| Short.io](https://short.io/bn/tools/qr-code-debugger?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | 424 | 0 | 0 | — | | [Clickstream & Detailed Statistics](https://short.io/es/features/clickstream-and-statistics?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | 250 | 0 | 0 | — | | [AI slug generation](https://short.io/fr/features/ai-slug-generation?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | 304 | 0 | 0 | — | | [URL shortcode (slug) editing](https://short.io/he/features/url-shortcode-editing?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | 304 | 0 | 0 | — | | [Free QR code generator - create QR codes instantly \| Short.io](https://short.io/hi/tools/qr-code-generator?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | 291 | 1 | 1 | — | | [Main page redirect](https://short.io/it/features/main-page-redirect?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | 375 | 0 | 0 | — | | [Free Open Graph checker - preview OG meta tags instantly \| Short.io](https://short.io/ja/tools/open-graph-checker?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | 245 | 0 | 0 | — | | [AI slug generation](https://short.io/nl/features/ai-slug-generation?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | 302 | 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 79%, B 7.0%, C 13%, D 1.0%. 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 1.5%, B 15%, C 80%, D 3.2%. Jev reads it as a service or app (77%), small or niche as a source (69%), and not selling guest, sponsored or paid posts (98%). Traffic in detail engagement, top keywords, AI assistants Modelled estimates for Sept 2026, as of 1 November 2026: site-wide, all visitors, not analytics measured on the site itself. - **no data** global rank - **no data** country rank - **40%** bounce rate - **3.9** pages per visit - **1m 50s** time on site **Every channel** - [Organic search](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/organic-search) 11% - [Direct](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/direct) 66% - [Referrals](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/referrals) 3.0% - [Social](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/social) 3.5% - AI assistants 2.0% - [Email](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/email) 1.7% - [Paid](https://mxverify.uk/publications/traffic/paid) 13% - Affiliate and other 0.1% 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.) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [bitly](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/bitly) | 540.5K | $0.75 | $405.4K | 8,290 | | [encurtador de link](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/encurtador-de-link) | 76.3K | $0.12 | $9,157 | 5,230 | | [short io](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/short-io) | 4,430 | $0.69 | $3,057 | 4,310 | | [url shortener](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/url-shortener) | 185.6K | $0.33 | $61.2K | 3,450 | | [link shortener](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/link-shortener) | 151.3K | $0.29 | $43.9K | 3,120 | 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 **14K** visits in Sept 2026 — 2.0% of all visits. Each assistant's share of those visits, by month: [ChatGPT](https://mxverify.uk/publications/ai/chatgpt) [Gemini](https://mxverify.uk/publications/ai/gemini) [Claude](https://mxverify.uk/publications/ai/claude) ChatGPT: Jul 2026 72%, Aug 2026 99%, Sept 2026 82%; Gemini: Jul 2026 0%, Aug 2026 0.8%, Sept 2026 7.1%; Claude: Jul 2026 0%, Aug 2026 0%, Sept 2026 3.2% | Assistant | Jul 2026 | Aug 2026 | Sept 2026 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | ChatGPT | 72% | 99% | 82% | | Gemini | 0% | 0.8% | 7.1% | | Claude | 0% | 0% | 3.2% | 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 2009. mxverify looked up short.io'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/short.io#value) | BV 2.9 | Site Strength × link type; link type from our reading of the site | | [Links placed here](https://mxverify.uk/publications/short.io#links) | bklink audits | None audited yet | | [How it links out](https://mxverify.uk/publications/short.io#reading) | Read by mxverify | 1 link to other sites in 10 articles; read 1 Nov 2026 Thin sample | | [Traffic](https://mxverify.uk/publications/short.io#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/short.io#links-in) | Third-party backlink index | 7,013 linking sites, read 1 Nov 2026; one reading a month | | [Authority](https://mxverify.uk/publications/short.io#value) | Ahrefs Domain Rating | Half of Site Strength, shown in steps of 5, as of 1 Nov 2026; the rating itself is not shown | | [Server and network](https://mxverify.uk/publications/short.io#server) | mxverify's DNS and ASN lookup | 172.66.160.56 · Cloudflare (CDN) · a CDN edge, shared by unrelated sites | | [Domain age](https://mxverify.uk/publications/short.io#hosting) | Domain registry (RDAP) | Registered 27 Apr 2009 | Limitations: what this report does not show 3 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. - short.io gives more than one kind of link (A 1% · B 15% · C 80% · D 3%), 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 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 --- Source: mxverify, "Backlink Value & Traffic Report for short.io", https://mxverify.uk/publications/short.io (retrieved 2026-11-01). How every figure is worked out: https://mxverify.uk/methodology