--- title: "Backlink Value & Traffic Report for slashdot.org" url: https://mxverify.uk/publications/slashdot.org description: "A followed link from slashdot.org is worth $295 by BV 2.8 (link type B). Not yet audited. Served through Cloudflare (CDN). Domain registered 1997." site: mxverify generated: 2026-10-22T10:46:27.661Z --- mxverify · valued # Backlink value and traffic report for slashdot.org 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 1997. **In short:** A new followed link from slashdot.org is worth about $295 to rankings by BV 2.8 (level B, Site Strength 70 of 100); BV is an estimate, not a price anyone charges. It gets about 2.6M visits a month, 11% from organic search, up 4.6% since Jul 2026. No link placed on it has been audited. Last updated 22 October 2026 · [Visit slashdot.org](https://slashdot.org/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) [Compare](https://mxverify.uk/compare/slashdot.org#add) Show slashdot.org's BV badge on your site The badge shows what a link from slashdot.org 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. It is a plain link and image: no script runs on your site. ## Backlink value · what one new followed link from slashdot.org is worth to rankings [BV **$295** per link · level B · strength 70](https://bklink.uk/methodology?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report#bv) **Relevance to the linked site moves it** **$147** unrelated ×0.5 **$368** same topic ×1.25 **By the kind of link it gives** - A editorial $628 - B guest, sponsored $314 - C neutralised $63 - D network $31 Priced on a blend of link types: A 13% · B 64% · C 23% → ×0.47. [How BV is worked out](https://mxverify.uk/publications/slashdot.org#bv-detail) · BV 2.8 · not a price anyone charges **2.6M** monthly visits +4.6% since Jul 2026 **279K** from organic search 11% of visits **#26,548** global rank **[1997](https://mxverify.uk/publications/registered/1990s)** domain registered 29 years ago **[0.9 s](https://mxverify.uk/publications/slashdot.org#tech)** page load for real users (LCP) passes Core Web Vitals **[0%](https://mxverify.uk/publications/slashdot.org#reading)** of its own links nofollow in the articles we read More like it: [Guest post sites](https://mxverify.uk/publications/level/b) · [Backlink sites worth $250 to $499 a link](https://mxverify.uk/publications/value/250-499) · [Technology websites and tech blogs](https://mxverify.uk/publications/category/technology) · [Old websites from the 90s](https://mxverify.uk/publications/registered/1990s) **Monthly visits** Jul 2026: 2.5M visits; Aug 2026: 2.5M visits; Sept 2026: 2.6M visits **Where visitors come from** Direct 83%, Organic search 11%, Email 2.4%, Referrals 2.0%, Social 1.3% - Direct **83%** - Organic search **11%** - Email **2.4%** - Referrals **2.0%** - Social **1.3%** - Other channels **0.5%** Organic search, in green, is the traffic BV prices on. **Top countries** - United States 55% - United Kingdom 5.9% - Germany 4.6% - Czech Republic 4.1% - Australia 3.0% - Other countries 27% ## Links to this site Link counts for slashdot.org are fetched at the next daily update, usually by 05:00 UTC, and shown here from then. ## Links placed here No link placed on slashdot.org 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 slashdot.org is nofollow. It is followed only when the site's owner audits slashdot.org's own backlinks on bklink.uk, chooses to publish it and proves the site is theirs — for 90 days from each audit. [When a link here is followed](https://mxverify.uk/methodology#followed-links) ## How it links out **100%** of its links followed **23** links to other sites **10** articles read Followed 100% Fair sample Read 22 Oct 2026 · its homepage offers write for us, advertising · [the full reading](https://mxverify.uk/publications/slashdot.org#reading) ## Tech stack slashdot.org'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 20 Oct 2026: LCP 0.9 s · INP 44 ms · CLS 0.08 — passes Core Web Vitals. Source: Chrome UX Report (Google), CC BY 4.0. ## Domain and hosting - **Domain registered**: [05 October 1997](https://mxverify.uk/publications/registered/1990s) - **Content category**: [technology](https://mxverify.uk/publications/category/technology) - **Server address**: 104.18.5.215 · CDN edge, shared by unrelated sites - **Hosting network**: Cloudflare (CDN) · AS13335 · US How to use this report 3 ways to use these figures - **Price check.** BV puts one new followed link from slashdot.org at $295 (level B), priced on a blend of link types (A 13% · B 64% · C 23%): $147 to an unrelated site (×0.5), $368 to a same-topic site (×1.25). A followed editorial link (level A) would be worth up to $628 before relevance. A quote far above $393 for a level B link pays for what BV does not measure. · [Backlink value](https://mxverify.uk/publications/slashdot.org#value) · [what this means](https://mxverify.uk/guide#use) - **Qualification and risk.** Its Site Strength is 70 / 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. · [How BV is worked out](https://mxverify.uk/publications/slashdot.org#bv-detail) · [what this means](https://mxverify.uk/guide#levels) - **Traffic reality check.** Set any traffic claim beside the Sept 2026 estimate: 2.6M monthly visits, 11% from organic search (279K). Visits rose 4.6% from Jul 2026 to Sept 2026. Its top keyword by Visits (est.) is “reverse image search”, about 2,210 a month; the ad value beside it is the whole market's. · [Traffic in detail](https://mxverify.uk/publications/slashdot.org#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 slashdot.org 8 questions answered ### What is a link from slashdot.org worth? BV, mxverify's backlink value, is an estimate of what one new followed link from a site is worth to rankings: by BV 2.8, a new followed link from slashdot.org is worth about $295 (level B). Relevance moves it: $147 to an unrelated site, $368 to a same-topic site. BV is an estimate of ranking value, not a price anyone charges. In short: a link from slashdot.org is worth about $295 to rankings, up to $368 on the same topic. Source: [mxverify BV 2.8 methodology](https://mxverify.uk/methodology) ### Is a link from slashdot.org worth placing? That depends on the kind of link: by BV 2.8, a link from slashdot.org is worth $628 as an editorial citation (level A), $314 as a guest, sponsored or listed link (level B), $63 as a press-release, syndicated, profile or forum link (level C), $31 as a network link (level D), before relevance. A price far above $393 for a level B link pays for something BV does not measure, such as the site's own readers. BV is an estimate of ranking value, not a verdict on the site or a price anyone charges. Source: [mxverify BV 2.8 methodology](https://mxverify.uk/methodology) ### How does slashdot.org's BV compare with other sites? At about $295 a link, slashdot.org is in the “$250 to $499” value band, with 118 of the 3,466 sites valued on mxverify. 25 sites are in a higher band. The counts are mxverify's own, taken from its directory at the last daily update. In short: 25 of the 3,466 valued sites sit in a higher value band than slashdot.org. Source: mxverify's own directory, counted at the last daily update ### How much traffic does slashdot.org get? slashdot.org gets about 2.6M visits a month (Sept 2026), by a modelled estimate of all its visitors, not analytics measured on the site. 11% of them (279K) come from organic search. Visits rose 4.6% from Jul 2026 to Sept 2026. In short: slashdot.org draws about 2.6M visits a month, up 4.6% since Jul 2026. Source: [third-party traffic estimate, Sept 2026](https://mxverify.uk/publications/slashdot.org#evidence) ### Does slashdot.org pass Core Web Vitals? Yes: real Chrome users see slashdot.org's largest content load in 0.9 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: slashdot.org passes Core Web Vitals on real-user data. Source: [Chrome UX Report, 28 days to 20 Oct 2026](https://developer.chrome.com/docs/crux); [web.dev: Web Vitals](https://web.dev/articles/vitals) ### Does slashdot.org link out with nofollow? In the 10 articles we read, slashdot.org made 23 links to other sites, and 0% of them were nofollow, sponsored or ugc; the other 100% were followed. BV prices a nofollow link at level C (×0.1), whatever the site is otherwise worth. Source: [mxverify's reading of 10 articles, 22 Oct 2026](https://mxverify.uk/publications/slashdot.org#reading); [Google Search Central: qualify your outbound links](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/qualify-outbound-links) ### How old is slashdot.org? The domain slashdot.org was registered in 1997, 29 years ago. Domain age is a fact from the registry record, not a measure of a site's quality. Source: the public registration record; [RFC 9083: RDAP JSON responses](https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9083/) ### Has slashdot.org been audited? No link placed on slashdot.org 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: slashdot.org's report is valued, not audited. How BV is worked out Site Strength 70 / 100 · level B · each factor and link type A followed editorial link from slashdot.org would be worth up to $628 under BV 2.8, before relevance: its Site Strength is 70 out of 100. The link it usually gives is level B, worth about $295 — and relevance to the site it points to moves that between $147 and $368. - **Site Strength**: **70** / 100, in steps of 5 · half the site's authority rating, half its organic traffic on a log scale; 100 is the strongest site on the web. Traffic: 279K estimated monthly organic visits, as of 22 October 2026. - **Worth up to**: $628 · a followed editorial link at this strength, before relevance (×0.5 unrelated to ×1.25 same topic) — see [how it is calculated](https://mxverify.uk/backlink-value#how) - **Usual link type**: Mostly level B — may be discounted · A 13%, B 64%, C 23% → ×0.47 (each level's factor below, weighted by those shares) Read by Jev from our own reading of slashdot.org's homepage and 10 articles. No link placed here has been audited yet. - **Relevance to your site**: ×1 · neutral here; in an audit it runs from ×0.5 (unrelated) to ×1.25 (same topic) - **BV score**: **$295** per link - **Domain registered**: 5 October 1997 · shown for context; BV does not price on age, but a domain registered in the last 30 days is never priced as not in Google ### A link from slashdot.org, 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 | $628 | | B — May be discounted | A guest, sponsored or placed article, or a product or tool directory listing. | ×0.5 | $314 | | C — Usually neutralised | A press release or syndicated copy, a forum post, profile, footer or sidebar link — and any nofollow link. | ×0.1 | $63 | | D — Network | A site on a server whose sites show footprints of one owner, a link farm, or machine-generated pages. | ×0.05 | $31 | How slashdot.org links out: the full reading 10 articles read · each link counted Read by mxverify on 22 October 2026: the homepage and 10 articles (10 from its feed). 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. Fair sample 23 links 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% 23 links to other sites across 10 articles, share buttons left out. **What its homepage offers** - **Write for us / guest posts** · “Submit Story” - **Advertising** · “Advertising” ### Articles read | Article | Words | Links out | Followed | Says | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [America's War Department Will Test Heat Ray Weapon For Potential Use - Slashdot](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/10/22/0020206/americas-war-department-will-test-heat-ray-weapon-for-potential-use?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed) | 157 | 2 | 2 | — | | [Startup Claims To Use AI-Created Viruses To Treat a Patient - Slashdot](https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/10/21/2054216/startup-claims-to-use-ai-created-viruses-to-treat-a-patient?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed) | 589 | 4 | 4 | — | | [eBay to Cut 9% of Workforce - Slashdot](https://slashdot.org/story/26/10/21/2040246/ebay-to-cut-9-of-workforce?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed) | 148 | 1 | 1 | — | | [AMD Brings Ryzen Overclocking Driver to Linux - Slashdot](https://linux.slashdot.org/story/26/10/21/2030239/amd-brings-ryzen-overclocking-driver-to-linux?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed) | 187 | 2 | 2 | — | | [More Than 1.5 Million Canadian Crime Stoppers Tips Leaked - Slashdot](https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/10/21/1729218/more-than-15-million-canadian-crime-stoppers-tips-leaked?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed) | 315 | 2 | 2 | — | | [Microsoft Reportedly Projects $1,200 To $1,800 Price For Next-Gen Xbox - Slashdot](https://games.slashdot.org/story/26/10/21/180214/microsoft-reportedly-projects-1200-to-1800-price-for-next-gen-xbox?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed) | 221 | 2 | 2 | — | | [Meta Ordered to Pay New Mexico $25 Billion for Deceiving Users About Privacy On Facebook - Slashdot](https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/10/21/188251/meta-ordered-to-pay-new-mexico-25-billion-for-deceiving-users-about-privacy-on-facebook?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed) | 350 | 1 | 1 | — | | [EA Is Shutting Down BioWare - Slashdot](https://games.slashdot.org/story/26/10/21/1738206/ea-is-shutting-down-bioware?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed) | 183 | 3 | 3 | — | | [OpenAI Models Are Now On All Three Major US Cloud Platforms - Slashdot](https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/10/21/1637221/openai-models-are-now-on-all-three-major-us-cloud-platforms?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed) | 211 | 3 | 3 | — | | [Government Websites Go Dark After Severe PHP Vulnerabilities Disclosed - Slashdot](https://developers.slashdot.org/story/26/10/21/1644235/government-websites-go-dark-after-severe-php-vulnerabilities-disclosed?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed) | 170 | 3 | 3 | — | Jev, the model that judges every link in a bklink audit, reads these pages as a site whose links are mostly level **A** — A 96%, B 1.0%, C 3.0%, 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 13%, B 64%, C 23%, D 0%. Jev reads it as a publication (79%), established as a source (51%), and selling guest, sponsored or paid posts (78%). Traffic in detail engagement, top keywords, AI assistants Modelled estimates for Sept 2026, as of 22 October 2026: site-wide, all visitors, not analytics measured on the site itself. - **#26,548** global rank - **#12,015** rank in US - **51%** bounce rate - **2.4** pages per visit - **2m 58s** time on site **Every channel** - Organic search 11% - Direct 83% - Referrals 2.0% - Social 1.3% - AI assistants 0.3% - Email 2.4% - Paid 0.2% - Affiliate and other 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.) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [slashdot](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/slashdot) | 13.1K | $0.00 | $0 | 23.7K | | [reverse image search](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/reverse-image-search) | 1.1M | $0.91 | $1M | 2,210 | | [billhighway](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/billhighway) | 15.1K | $2.99 | $45.2K | 2,090 | | [proxyium](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/proxyium) | 61.8K | $0.80 | $49.4K | 1,700 | | [polybuzz](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/polybuzz) | 1.3M | $1.44 | $1.9M | 1,310 | 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 **8,809** visits in Sept 2026 — 0.3% of all visits. Each assistant's share of those visits, by month: Gemini ChatGPT Perplexity Gemini: Jul 2026 18%, Aug 2026 40%, Sept 2026 34%; ChatGPT: Jul 2026 33%, Aug 2026 37%, Sept 2026 25%; Perplexity: Jul 2026 11%, Aug 2026 1.1%, Sept 2026 0.3% | Assistant | Jul 2026 | Aug 2026 | Sept 2026 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Gemini | 18% | 40% | 34% | | ChatGPT | 33% | 37% | 25% | | Perplexity | 11% | 1.1% | 0.3% | Third-party traffic estimates. BV uses only the organic-search figure. Server and network a CDN edge, shared by unrelated sites slashdot.org 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 7 figures, their sources and dates | Figure | Source | What it covers | | --- | --- | --- | | [Backlink value](https://mxverify.uk/publications/slashdot.org#value) | BV 2.8 | Site Strength × link type; link type from our reading of the site | | [Links placed here](https://mxverify.uk/publications/slashdot.org#links) | bklink audits | None audited yet | | [How it links out](https://mxverify.uk/publications/slashdot.org#reading) | Read by mxverify | 23 links to other sites in 10 articles; read 22 Oct 2026 Fair sample | | [Traffic](https://mxverify.uk/publications/slashdot.org#traffic) | Third-party estimates | Modelled estimates for Sept 2026, site-wide and for all visitors, as of 22 Oct 2026 | | [Authority](https://mxverify.uk/publications/slashdot.org#value) | Ahrefs Domain Rating | Half of Site Strength, shown in steps of 5, as of 22 Oct 2026; the rating itself is not shown | | [Server and network](https://mxverify.uk/publications/slashdot.org#server) | DNS and ASN registry | 104.18.5.215 · Cloudflare (CDN) · a CDN edge, shared by unrelated sites | | [Domain age](https://mxverify.uk/publications/slashdot.org#hosting) | Domain registry (RDAP) | Registered 5 Oct 1997 | Limitations: what this report does not show 6 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. - 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 slashdot.org 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. - slashdot.org gives more than one kind of link (A 13% · B 64% · C 23%), so BV prices a blend of them: an editorial link there would be worth $628 and a guest or sponsored one $314, before relevance. 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 22 October 2026 --- Source: mxverify, "Backlink Value & Traffic Report for slashdot.org", https://mxverify.uk/publications/slashdot.org (retrieved 2026-10-22). How every figure is worked out: https://mxverify.uk/methodology