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title: "sportstar.thehindu.com Backlink Value Report"
url: https://mxverify.uk/publications/sportstar.thehindu.com
description: "sportstar.thehindu.com: a followed link from it is worth $932 by BV 2.9 (link type A). 49,257 websites link to it. Served through Cloudflare (CDN)."
site: mxverify
generated: 2026-11-05T07:54:04.817Z
---

# Backlink value report for sportstar.thehindu.com

**In short:** A new followed link from sportstar.thehindu.com is worth about $932 to rankings by BV 2.9 (level A, Site Strength 80 of 100); BV is an estimate, not a price anyone charges. No link placed on it has been audited.

First recorded 07 August 2026 · Last updated 05 November 2026 · [Visit sportstar.thehindu.com](https://sportstar.thehindu.com/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report)

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## Backlink value · what one new followed link from sportstar.thehindu.com is worth to rankings

[BV **$932** per link · level A · strength 80](https://bklink.uk/methodology?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report#bv)

reading confidence **Fair, 63 out of 100**

Reading confidence 63 / 100

- What we read 72
- Our model's certainty 93
- Its view of the pages 66

10 of 10 pages read had text · 22 links to other sites seen · posts from Nov 2026

How much of sportstar.thehindu.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](https://mxverify.uk/publications/sportstar.thehindu.com#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. Priced 5 Nov 2026 · pages read 5 Nov 2026.

**Relevance to the linked site moves it**

**$466** unrelated ×0.5 **$1,165** same topic ×1.25

**By the kind of link it gives**

- A editorial $963
- B guest, sponsored $482
- C neutralised $96
- D network $48

Priced on a blend of link types: A 95% · B 3% · C 2% → ×0.97.

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

**[49,257](https://mxverify.uk/publications/sportstar.thehindu.com#links-in)** sites link to it 4,546 of them nofollow

**1996** domain registered 30 years ago

**[1.8 s](https://mxverify.uk/publications/sportstar.thehindu.com#tech)** page load for real users (LCP) passes Core Web Vitals

**[0%](https://mxverify.uk/publications/sportstar.thehindu.com#reading)** of its own links nofollow in the articles we read

## Links to this site

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

**49,257** websites link to it 4,546 of them with nofollow links

**2.5M** links in all, from those websites about 50 per website · first seen 2019

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

**7,702** IP addresses they link from 3,203 subnets

**Where the links sit:** 7.6% in the article or main content of the linking page, 86% in its header, menu, sidebar or footer · 4.0% in no page section the index could name, the rest in other sections; of the 2.3M links it sorted by where they sit

**Pages in Google:** about 299,000 · the count Google gives for a site: search, its own estimate, which can be far off either way

What Google shows for site:sportstar.thehindu.com — the first 10 pages

1. [Playcom 2026 News, Business of Sports Summit - Sportstar](https://sportstar.thehindu.com/playcom/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) sportstar.thehindu.com/playcom/
2. [Sports Web Stories, Web Stories - Sportstar - The Hindu](https://sportstar.thehindu.com/shorts/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) sportstar.thehindu.com/shorts/
3. [Latest Athletics news, Results, Pictures, Videos and players' info](https://sportstar.thehindu.com/athletics/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) sportstar.thehindu.com/athletics/
4. [Commonwealth Games Glasgow 2026 - Sportstar - The Hindu](https://sportstar.thehindu.com/commonwealth-games/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) sportstar.thehindu.com/commonwealth-games/
5. [Sports eBooks, eBooks Digital Subscription - Sportstar](https://sportstar.thehindu.com/magazine/ebook/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) sportstar.thehindu.com/magazine/ebook/
6. [Quiz - Asian Games 2026 - Sportstar](https://sportstar.thehindu.com/asian-games/quiz/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) sportstar.thehindu.com/asian-games/quiz/
7. ['The Hindu' group Print Newspaper Subscription](https://sportstar.thehindu.com/tsssub.htm?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) sportstar.thehindu.com/tsssub.htm
8. [Barcelona reports Paris Saint-Germain fans to UEFA for ...](https://sportstar.thehindu.com/football/barcelona-report-psg-fans-uefa-banner-controversy/article71607627.ece?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) sportstar.thehindu.com/football/barcelona-report-psg-fans-uefa-banner-controversy/article71607627.ece · Oct 21, 2026
9. [Sahil Mathur - Sportstar - The Hindu](https://sportstar.thehindu.com/profile/author/sahil-mathur-19597/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) sportstar.thehindu.com/profile/author/sahil-mathur-19597/
10. [Rajdeep Saha - Sportstar - The Hindu](https://sportstar.thehindu.com/profile/author/rajdeep-saha-12228/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) sportstar.thehindu.com/profile/author/rajdeep-saha-12228/

Sources: link counts and spam score from a third-party backlink index, read 05 November 2026; the chart grows by one reading a month; page count and pages from a Google site: search, 05 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 sportstar.thehindu.com 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 sportstar.thehindu.com is nofollow. It is followed when the site's owner audits sportstar.thehindu.com'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

**22** links to other sites

**10** articles read

Followed 100%

Fair sample Read 5 Nov 2026 · [the full reading](https://mxverify.uk/publications/sportstar.thehindu.com#reading)

## Domain and hosting

- **Domain registered**: 01 March 1996
- **Content category**: [sports](https://mxverify.uk/publications/category/sports)
- **Server address**: 104.18.8.4 · CDN edge, shared by unrelated sites
- **Hosting network**: Cloudflare (CDN) · AS13335 · US

## Tech stack

sportstar.thehindu.com'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 24 Sept 2026: LCP 1.8 s · INP 155 ms · CLS 0.01 — passes Core Web Vitals. Data from the Chrome UX Report (Google), CC BY 4.0.

Devices: 95% phone · 5% desktop — share of Chrome page loads, same 28 days.

## Similar sites

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

- [sports.ndtv.com BV $881 · level A A Sports](https://mxverify.uk/publications/sports.ndtv.com)
- [mykhel.com BV $322 · level B B Sports](https://mxverify.uk/publications/mykhel.com)
- [pr.newberggraphic.com BV $11 · level C C Sports](https://mxverify.uk/publications/pr.newberggraphic.com)
- [bbc.com BV $1,119 · level A A Sports](https://mxverify.uk/publications/bbc.com)
- [polymarket.us BV $38 · level C C Sports](https://mxverify.uk/publications/polymarket.us)
- [thesportship.com BV $20 · level B B Sports](https://mxverify.uk/publications/thesportship.com)

More like it: [Editorial backlink sites](https://mxverify.uk/publications/level/a) · [High-value backlink sites](https://mxverify.uk/publications/value/500-plus) · [Sports websites and blogs](https://mxverify.uk/publications/category/sports)

How to use this report 2 ways to use these figures

- **Price check.** BV puts one new followed link from sportstar.thehindu.com at $932 (level A), priced on a blend of link types (A 95% · B 3% · C 2%): $466 to an unrelated site (×0.5), $1,165 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 $1,204 for a level A link pays for what BV does not measure. · [Backlink value](https://mxverify.uk/publications/sportstar.thehindu.com#value) · [what this means](https://mxverify.uk/guide#use)
- **Qualification and risk.** Its Site Strength is 80 / 100; the link it usually gives is mostly level A — counted (an editorial citation). In the 10 articles we read, 0% of the links to other sites are nofollow, sponsored or ugc. The spam score of its links is 4 (0–100, the linking pages' average), not sportstar.thehindu.com's own. · [How BV is worked out](https://mxverify.uk/publications/sportstar.thehindu.com#bv-detail) · [what this means](https://mxverify.uk/guide#levels)

What each figure means, and what it cannot tell you: [How to read a site report](https://mxverify.uk/guide).

Quick answers about sportstar.thehindu.com 8 questions answered

### What is a link from sportstar.thehindu.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 sportstar.thehindu.com is worth about $932 (level A). Relevance moves it: $466 to an unrelated site, $1,165 to a same-topic site.

In short: a link from sportstar.thehindu.com is worth about $932 to rankings, up to $1,165 on the same topic.

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

### Is a link from sportstar.thehindu.com worth placing?

That depends on the kind of link: by BV 2.9, a link from sportstar.thehindu.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 $1,204 for a level A 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 sportstar.thehindu.com's BV compare with other sites?

At about $932 a link, sportstar.thehindu.com is in the “$500 or more” value band, with 46 of the 4,378 sites valued on mxverify. No site is in a higher band.

In short: sportstar.thehindu.com is in the highest value band of the 4,378 sites valued on mxverify.

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

### Does sportstar.thehindu.com pass Core Web Vitals?

Yes: real Chrome users see sportstar.thehindu.com's largest content load in 1.8 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: sportstar.thehindu.com passes Core Web Vitals on real-user data.

Source: [Chrome UX Report, 28 days to 24 Sept 2026](https://developer.chrome.com/docs/crux); [web.dev: Web Vitals](https://web.dev/articles/vitals)

### Does sportstar.thehindu.com link out with nofollow?

In the 10 articles we read, sportstar.thehindu.com made 22 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, 5 Nov 2026](https://mxverify.uk/publications/sportstar.thehindu.com#reading); [Google Search Central: qualify your outbound links](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/qualify-outbound-links)

### How old is sportstar.thehindu.com?

The registered domain thehindu.com was registered in 1996, 30 years ago. sportstar.thehindu.com is a subdomain, so it carries its registered domain's registration date.

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

### How many sites link to sportstar.thehindu.com?

49,257 websites link to sportstar.thehindu.com, each counted once. 4,546 of them (9%) link with nofollow.

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

### Has sportstar.thehindu.com been audited?

No link placed on sportstar.thehindu.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: sportstar.thehindu.com's report is not yet valued or audited.

How BV is worked out Site Strength 80 / 100 · level A · each factor and link type

A followed editorial link from sportstar.thehindu.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 A, worth about $932 — and relevance to the site it points to moves that between $466 and $1,165.

- **Site Strength**: **80** / 100 ([how Site Strength is worked out](https://mxverify.uk/methodology#reading-a-report)). Traffic: 17.4M estimated monthly organic visits, as of 7 August 2026.
- **Worth up to**: $963 · before relevance — [how it is calculated](https://mxverify.uk/backlink-value#how)
- **Usual link type**: Mostly level A — counted · A 95%, B 3%, C 2% → ×0.97 (each level's factor below, weighted by those shares) Read by Jev from our own reading of sportstar.thehindu.com's homepage and 10 articles. None of the links audited here has a link type on record.
- **Relevance to your site**: ×1 · neutral here ([range in an audit](https://mxverify.uk/methodology#reading-a-report))
- **BV score**: **$932** per link
- **Domain registered**: 1 March 1996 · shown for context ([how age is used](https://mxverify.uk/methodology#reading-a-report))

### A link from sportstar.thehindu.com, by link type

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

| 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 sportstar.thehindu.com links out: the full reading 10 articles read · each link counted

Read by mxverify on 5 November 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 22 links to other sites across 10 articles published in Nov 2026. 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%

22 links 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 | Published | Words | Links out | Followed | Says |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Ranji Trophy LIVE Score, Round 4 Day 4: Hyderabad faces uphill task against Chhattisgarh, Bengal in deep trouble vs Maharashtra - Sportstar](https://sportstar.thehindu.com/cricket/domestic/ranji-trophy-live-score-day-4-round-4-today-match-updates-highlights/article71666463.ece?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | Nov 2026 | 1,071 | 2 | 2 | — |
| [West Indies vs Bangladesh LIVE score, 2nd Test Day 1: Commentary, Updates - Sportstar](https://sportstar.thehindu.com/cricket/west-indies-vs-bangladesh-live-score-2nd-test-day-1-highlights-commentary/article71668554.ece?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | Nov 2026 | 508 | 2 | 2 | — |
| [Happy Birthday, Virat Kohli: From a straight drive that damaged Reeboks to a 228 after a tattoo challenge — let me take you on a journey that made Chiku, King Kohli - Sportstar](https://sportstar.thehindu.com/cricket/virat-kohli-38th-happy-birthday-vijay-lokapally-memories-king-chiku/article71664521.ece?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | Nov 2026 | 3,817 | 2 | 2 | — |
| [Slavia Prague vs Arsenal player ratings, Champions League: First-half goals from Madueke, Gyokeres enough for Gunners win - Sportstar](https://sportstar.thehindu.com/football/champions-league/slavia-prague-vs-arsenal-player-ratings-champions-league-highlights-score-goals/article71668502.ece?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | Nov 2026 | 859 | 2 | 2 | — |
| [RB Leipzig vs Manchester City player ratings, Champions League: Haaland saves the day for Cityzens - Sportstar](https://sportstar.thehindu.com/football/champions-league/rb-leipzig-vs-manchester-city-player-ratings-champions-league-highlights-haaland-goal/article71668491.ece?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | Nov 2026 | 678 | 2 | 2 | — |
| [Fenerbahce vs Liverpool player ratings, Champions League: Reds squander lead twice to suffer defeat - Sportstar](https://sportstar.thehindu.com/football/champions-league/fenerbahce-vs-liverpool-player-ratings-champions-league-highlights-goals-score/article71668472.ece?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | Nov 2026 | 827 | 2 | 2 | — |
| [AEK Athens vs Real Madrid player ratings, Champions League: Mbappe, Bellingham, Valverde on target in comeback win - Sportstar](https://sportstar.thehindu.com/football/champions-league/aek-athens-vs-real-madrid-player-ratings-champions-league-highlights-valverde-mbappe-bellingham-goal/article71668459.ece?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | Nov 2026 | 791 | 2 | 2 | — |
| [India vs Pakistan in Women's T20 World Cup 2026 set to be most-watched Women's T20 match ever - Sportstar](https://sportstar.thehindu.com/cricket/womens-t20-world-cup-2026-record-471-million-viewing-hours-938-million-impact/article71667250.ece?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | Nov 2026 | 1,310 | 2 | 2 | — |
| [Watch: Lizelle Lee’s big keeping error costs Hurricanes a last-ball win over Renegades - Sportstar](https://sportstar.thehindu.com/cricket/womens-cricket/melbourne-renegades-win-hobart-hurricanes-wbbl-controversial-no-ball-lizelle-lee-dottin-super-over/article71667333.ece?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | Nov 2026 | 751 | 3 | 3 | — |
| [WTA Chennai Open: Maaya Rajeshwaran makes last eight, first Indian woman in a Tour quarterfinal since Sania Mirza - Sportstar](https://sportstar.thehindu.com/tennis/wta-250-chennai-open-2026-maaya-rajeshwaran-makes-quarterfinal-sania-mirza-historic-tour-level/article71667335.ece?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | Nov 2026 | 1,166 | 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 100%, B 0%, C 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 95%, B 2.9%, C 2.0%, D 0%.

Jev reads it as a publication (98%), major as a source (50%), and not selling guest, sponsored or paid posts (98%).

Server and network a CDN edge, shared by unrelated sites

Its domain was registered in 1996.

mxverify looked up sportstar.thehindu.com'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/sportstar.thehindu.com#value) | BV 2.9 | Site Strength × link type; link type from our reading of the site |
| [Links placed here](https://mxverify.uk/publications/sportstar.thehindu.com#links) | bklink audits | None audited yet |
| [How it links out](https://mxverify.uk/publications/sportstar.thehindu.com#reading) | Read by mxverify | 22 links to other sites in 10 articles, published Nov 2026; read 5 Nov 2026 Fair sample |
| [Traffic](https://mxverify.uk/publications/sportstar.thehindu.com#value) | Third-party estimates | Estimated organic visits, as of 7 Aug 2026 |
| [Links to this site](https://mxverify.uk/publications/sportstar.thehindu.com#links-in) | Third-party backlink index | 49,257 linking sites, read 5 Nov 2026; one reading a month |
| [Authority](https://mxverify.uk/publications/sportstar.thehindu.com#value) | Ahrefs Domain Rating | Half of Site Strength, shown in steps of 5, as of 11 Sept 2026; the rating itself is not shown |
| [Server and network](https://mxverify.uk/publications/sportstar.thehindu.com#server) | mxverify's DNS and ASN lookup | 104.18.8.4 · Cloudflare (CDN) · a CDN edge, shared by unrelated sites |
| [Domain age](https://mxverify.uk/publications/sportstar.thehindu.com#hosting) | Domain registry (RDAP) | Registered 1 Mar 1996 |

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.
- sportstar.thehindu.com gives more than one kind of link (A 95% · B 3% · C 2%), so BV prices a blend of them: an editorial link there would be worth $963 and a guest or sponsored one $482, 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 05 November 2026

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Source: mxverify, "sportstar.thehindu.com Backlink Value Report", https://mxverify.uk/publications/sportstar.thehindu.com (retrieved 2026-11-05). How every figure is worked out: https://mxverify.uk/methodology