What a link is worthmxverify · Technology
Fastly websites: 37 sites on Fastly
37 sites with a report on mxverify, 4 of them with links audited by bklink; the median link from them is worth $179.
Each site is served through Fastly, read from the headers its own server answers with.
At a glance
Sites served by Fastly: 37 sites with a report on mxverify. By the kind of link a new one would be, 3 are priced at level A, 28 are priced at level B, 5 are priced at level C and 1 is priced at level D. A new followed link from the median site here is worth $179, about 19.5 times the $9.18 median across all 4,509 priced sites on mxverify. Values run from $6.57 (pressdrop.io) to $1,119 (bbc.com).
By third-party traffic estimates, 32 sites here have a monthly visits figure, from 1,516 to 470.8M; the median is about 788K, against about 41.7K for the median site on mxverify. 4 of the 37 sites have links placed by bklink customers and audited (mozilla.org, 1 link, developer.mozilla.org, 1 link, python.org, 1 link and markets.businessinsider.com, 4 links).
- Highest value: bbc.com, $1,119 a link at level A.
- Most visited: bbc.com, about 470.8M visits a month.
- Fastest to load: colorfle.com, its main content showing in 0.8 s for three in four Chrome visitors.
- Slowest to load: biosites.com, at 6.4 s.
- Oldest domain: bbc.com, registered in 1989; the newest is rowbird.dev, from 2026.
- Best connected: mozilla.org, at position 65 among the web's hosts in Common Crawl's link graph.
| # | Publication | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bbc.com | $1,119 | 470.8M | From our reading | A | 0 | — | — | News | Next.js | 1989 | — | 1.5 s |
| 2 | nintendo.com | $831 | 65.3M | From our reading | A | 0 | — | — | Gaming | Next.js | 1995 | — | 2.0 s |
| 3 | mozilla.org | $780 | 14.2M | From our reading | B | 1 | — | — | Technology | — | 1998 | 65 | 1.8 s |
| 4 | buzzfeed.com | $748 | 49.6M | From our reading | B | 0 | — | — | News | Next.js | 2002 | — | 1.5 s |
| 5 | developer.mozilla.org | $660 | 5.3M | From our reading | B | 1 | — | — | Technology | — | — | 165 | 1.0 s |
| 6 | techradar.com | $539 | 12.2M | From our reading | B | 0 | — | — | — | — | 2003 | — | 1.2 s |
| 7 | python.org | $482 | 11.2M | Thin evidence | B | 1 | — | — | Technology | — | 1995 | 453 | 0.9 s |
| 8 | dev.to | $469 | 4.5M | From 4 checked links | B | 0 | — | — | Technology | — | 2016 | 487 | 1.9 s |
| 9 | startups.co.uk | $424 | 96.7K | From our reading | A | 0 | — | — | Business | WordPress | 1999 | — | 1.1 s |
| 10 | mastodon.social | $389 | 1.9M | Thin evidence | B | 0 | — | — | — | — | 2016 | — | 3.0 s |
| 11 | threejs.org | $389 | 902K | Thin evidence | B | 0 | — | — | — | — | 2011 | — | 1.2 s |
| 12 | tech.co | $352 | 204.6K | From our reading | B | 0 | — | — | News | WordPress | 2010 | — | 2.2 s |
| 13 | omr.com | $334 | 378K | From our reading | B | 0 | — | — | — | Shopify | 1994 | — | 1.7 s |
| 14 | nytco.com | $288 | 3M | From our reading | B | 0 | — | — | — | WordPress | 1997 | — | 1.2 s |
| 15 | natlawreview.com | $286 | 1.7M | From our reading | B | 0 | — | — | Business | Drupal | 2009 | — | 3.0 s |
| 16 | poople.io | $252 | 9.5M | Thin evidence | B | 0 | — | — | Gaming | — | 2024 | — | 2.9 s |
| 17 | thedyrt.com | $230 | 674K | From our reading | B | 0 | — | — | — | Next.js | 2013 | — | 1.7 s |
| 18 | acquire.com | $186 | 506.7K | From our reading | B | 0 | — | — | Business | — | 2000 | — | 2.5 s |
| 19 | productledalliance.com | $179 | 35K | From our reading | B | 0 | — | — | — | Ghost | 2019 | — | 2.5 s |
| 20 | costcodle.com | $160 | 964.7K | Thin evidence | B | 0 | — | — | — | — | 2023 | — | 1.3 s |
| 21 | free-for.dev | $134 | 193K | Thin evidence | B | 0 | — | — | — | — | 2019 | — | 2.8 s |
| 22 | shorby.com | $134 | 3,698 | Thin evidence | B | 0 | — | — | — | — | 2015 | — | — |
| 23 | biosites.com | $91 | 402.7K | From our reading | C | 0 | — | — | — | Next.js | 2003 | — | 6.4 s |
| 24 | kryptoverotus.fi | $89 | 1,516 | From our reading | B | 0 | — | — | Crypto | Next.js | 2022 | — | 1.4 s |
| 25 | colorfle.com | $87 | 258.5K | Thin evidence | B | 0 | — | — | — | — | 2022 | — | 0.8 s |
| 26 | markets.businessinsider.com | $78 | 4.2M | Thin evidence | C | 4 | 0% of 4 | 50% of 4 | News | — | — | 4,304 | 3.4 s |
| 27 | saasalliance.io | $71 | 5,423 | From our reading | B | 0 | — | — | Technology | Ghost | 2020 | — | 3.1 s |
| 28 | dles.aukspot.com | $67 | 1.4M | From our reading | B | 0 | — | — | Gaming | — | — | — | 1.2 s |
| 29 | toolhunt.io | $58 | 21.9K | From our reading | B | 0 | — | — | — | Ghost | 2023 | — | 1.3 s |
| 30 | articulated.app | $45 | 8,341 | From our reading | B | 0 | — | — | — | Next.js | 2026 | — | 1.4 s |
| 31 | smartle.net | $31 | 14.3K | From our reading | B · nofollow | 0 | — | — | Gaming | — | 2022 | — | 2.4 s |
| 32 | 123ofnet.com | $27 | — | From our reading | B | 0 | — | — | Business | — | 2026 | — | — |
| 33 | overdesk.store | $20 | — | Thin evidence | B | 0 | — | — | Finance | — | 2026 | — | — |
| 34 | rowbird.dev | $16 | — | Thin evidence | B | 0 | — | — | — | — | 2026 | — | — |
| 35 | femi9.com | $16 | 99.2K | From our reading | C | 0 | — | — | — | — | 2002 | — | 3.2 s |
| 36 | eduromanias.web.app | $13 | — | Thin evidence | D | 0 | — | — | Education | WordPress | — | 20M+ | — |
| 37 | pressdrop.io | $6.57 | — | From our reading | C | 0 | — | — | News | Next.js | 2026 | — | 2.9 s |
How this group compares
- 8 of the 37 run Next.js (22%), against 15% of all sites on mxverify.
- Median load time is 1.7 s, against 2.1 s across mxverify; 23 of the 32 with Chrome field data load in under 2.5 s, Google's mark for a good page.
- 13 domains were registered before 2010 and 12 in the 2020s, of the 33 with a public registration date.
- The most common category is News, for 5 of the 37.
- 18 show ad networks on their homepage and 7 show none we could find.
- For 25 of them the largest share of visitors comes from United States, by the traffic estimate.
Before placing a link here
- smartle.net gives nofollow links, which caps what a new link is worth; each report names the cap.
- 6 sites are priced at level C or D (press release, listing, profile or network links), where a link keeps a tenth or less of what an editorial link would.
- 33 of the 37 have no audited links, so how links there behave after they are placed is not measured yet.
- 1 site is worth under $10 a link to rankings.
- biosites.com loads in over 4 s for real visitors, which readers notice.