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smashingmagazine.com

Name: smashingmagazine.com — audited link behaviour
Creator: mxverify

Its domain was registered in 2006.

Last updated 25 September 2026 · Visit smashingmagazine.com

Backlink value

BV$217per link · level B

A new followed link from smashingmagazine.com is worth about $217 under BV 2.0 — before relevance to the site it points to, which moves it between $109 and $272.

Link-equity scale: $342 · set by the site's authority band — see how it is calculated
Traffic factor: ×1.3 · From the site's estimated monthly organic visits (TabAPI, 25 September 2026).
Usual link type: Level B — may be discounted → ×0.49
Read by Jev from our own reading of smashingmagazine.com's homepage and 3 recent articles; 3% of the links those articles make to other sites pass no credit, which caps that share of a new link at C. No link bought 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: $217 per link
Domain registered: 25 August 2006 · shown for context; BV does not price on age

A link from smashingmagazine.com, 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	$445
B — May be discounted	A guest, sponsored or placed article, or a product or tool directory listing.	×0.5	$222
C — Usually neutralised	A press release or syndicated copy, a forum post, profile, footer or sidebar link — and any nofollow link.	×0.1	$44
D — Network or spam	A site sharing its server with more than 20 other audited sites, a link farm, or machine-generated pages.	×0.05	$22

How smashingmagazine.com links out

Read by mxverify on 25 September 2026: the homepage and 3 recent articles. 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 bought here are audited.

Links its articles make to other sites

Followed97%
Nofollow2.8%
Sponsored0%
User-generated (ugc)0%

108 links to other sites across 3 articles, share buttons left out. BV counts 2.8% of a new link's weight at most C, because that share of the site's own links passes no credit.

What its homepage offers

Write for us / guest posts · “Write for us”
Advertising · “Advertise”

Articles read

Article	Words	Links out	Followed	Says
Stop Treating CSS Container Queries Like Traditional Media Queries — Smashing Magazine	2,591	32	31	—
Building A UX ROI Case That Survives The Boardroom — Smashing Magazine	2,980	35	34	—
The Death Of The Button: Why The Best Interface Is No Interface — Smashing Magazine	2,146	41	40	—

Jev, the model that judges every link in a bklink audit, reads these pages as a site whose links are mostly level A — A 98%, B 2.0%, C 0%, D 0%. A new link is priced at B at most: reading the site cannot tell whether a new link will be earned or placed. Only an audit of links on the site can show level A.

Traffic

Modelled estimates for Aug 2026 from TabAPI, bought 25 September 2026. They are a model of the site's audience, not figures measured on the site — use them to compare and size, not to audit.

362.5Kmonthly visits−7.0% since Jun 2026

76.1Kfrom organic search21% of visits

#152,681global rank

#116,473rank in US

49%bounce rate

1.8pages per visit

1m 10stime on site

Monthly visits

Where visitors come from

Organic search21%
Direct63%
Referrals7.5%
Social4.7%
AI assistants2.1%
Email1.1%
Paid0.4%
Affiliate and other0%

Share of all visits. Organic search is highlighted: it is the traffic BV prices on.

Top countries

United States28%
India7.5%
Germany6.8%
United Kingdom5.5%
Canada4.4%
Other countries48%

Top search keywords

Keyword	Searches / mo	CPC	Traffic value
smashing magazine	6,560	$0.00	$11.8K
manim	30.4K	$1.86	$850
smashing magazine wallpaper	1,030	$0.00	$780
color theory	92.2K	$1.24	$500
serpapi	101.7K	$3.44	$390

Traffic value: what the keyword's visits would cost as search ads, per month.

AI assistants

AI assistants sent about 7,431 visits in Aug 2026 — 2.1% of all visits. Each assistant's share of those visits, by month:

ChatGPTPerplexityGemini

Assistant	Jun 2026	Jul 2026	Aug 2026
ChatGPT	5.8%	16%	92%
Perplexity	1.2%	4.7%	6.3%
Gemini	0.4%	0.2%	1.8%

Traffic estimates by TabAPI — modelled, not measured. BV uses only the organic-search figure.

Links bought here

No link bought on smashingmagazine.com has been audited yet. An audit on bklink.uk checks each one — still there, followed or not, where it sits — and moves this record from valued to audited.

Hosting

Server address: 3.33.186.135
Hosting network: Amazon AWS · AS16509
Server country: US
Domain registered: 25 August 2006

Server and network

No other publication in the directory runs on 3.33.186.135. 452 publications are on the same hosting network (Amazon AWS, AS16509).

0other publications on the same server

452on the same hosting network

Publications on the same hosting network

The same provider, not the same machine — large providers host thousands of unrelated sites.

Showing 30 of 452.

What this report does not show

No link on this publication has been audited yet, so nothing here describes how its links behave.
A link that is followed is not necessarily a link search engines value; this record does not measure rankings or traffic.

Compiled from bklink.uk audits · maintained by Palash Bagchi · updated 25 September 2026