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Backlink value and traffic report for techradar.com

It is served through Fastly (CDN), a content delivery network, so its address is shared edge infrastructure and says nothing about who runs it. Its domain was registered in 2003.

In short: A new followed link from techradar.com is worth about $539 to rankings by BV 2.8 (level B, Site Strength 80 of 100); BV is an estimate, not a price anyone charges. It gets about 12.9M visits a month, 55% from organic search, down 17% since Jul 2026. No link placed on it has been audited.

Last updated 21 October 2026 · Visit techradar.com

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Backlink value · what one new followed link from techradar.com is worth to rankings

bklinkBV$539per link · level B · strength 80
Relevance to the linked site moves it

$269 unrelated ×0.5$674 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 34% · B 38% · C 28% → ×0.56.

How BV is worked out · BV 2.8 · not a price anyone charges

12.9Mmonthly visits−17% since Jul 2026
7.1Mfrom organic search55% of visits
#5,945global rank
2003domain registered22 years ago
1.2 spage load for real users (LCP)passes Core Web Vitals
27%of its own links nofollowin the articles we read
Monthly visits
Jul 2026: 15,608,611 visits15.6MJul 2026Aug 2026: 13,776,400 visits13.8MAug 2026Sept 2026: 12,934,947 visits12.9MSept 2026
Where visitors come from
Organic search: 55%Direct: 27%Referrals: 6.6%Social: 4.2%AI assistants: 1.2%Email: 1.3%Paid: 5.1%Affiliate and other: 0.0%55%organic
  • Organic search55%
  • Direct27%
  • Referrals6.6%
  • Paid5.1%
  • Social4.2%
  • Other channels2.6%

Organic search, in green, is the traffic BV prices on.

Top countries
  • United States37%
  • United Kingdom18%
  • Australia4.1%
  • Canada3.9%
  • India3.4%
  • Other countries34%

How it links out

73%of its links followed
78links to other sites
10articles read

Followed 73%Nofollow 3%Sponsored 24%

Strong sample Read 21 Oct 2026 · the full reading

Tech stack

techradar.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 19 Oct 2026: LCP 1.2 s · INP 116 ms · CLS 0.05 — passes Core Web Vitals. Source: Chrome UX Report (Google), CC BY 4.0.

Domain and hosting

Domain registered
06 December 2003
Server address
199.232.198.114 · CDN edge, shared by unrelated sites
Hosting network
Fastly (CDN) · AS54113 · US

How to use this report

3 ways to use these figures
  • Price check. BV puts one new followed link from techradar.com at $539 (level B), priced on a blend of link types (A 34% · B 38% · C 28%): $269 to an unrelated site (×0.5), $674 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 $602 for a level B link pays for what BV does not measure. · Backlink value · what this means
  • Qualification and risk. Its Site Strength is 80 / 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, 27% of the links to other sites are nofollow, sponsored or ugc. · How BV is worked out · what this means
  • Traffic reality check. Set any traffic claim beside the Sept 2026 estimate: 12.9M monthly visits, 55% from organic search (7.1M). Visits fell 17% from Jul 2026 to Sept 2026. Its top keyword by Visits (est.) is “website builder comparison”, about 84.1K a month; the ad value beside it is the whole market's. · Traffic in detail · what this means

What each figure means, and what it cannot tell you: How to read a site report.

Quick answers about techradar.com

8 questions answered

What is a link from techradar.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 2.8, a new followed link from techradar.com is worth about $539 (level B). Relevance moves it: $269 to an unrelated site, $674 to a same-topic site. BV is an estimate of ranking value, not a price anyone charges.

In short: a link from techradar.com is worth about $539 to rankings, up to $674 on the same topic.

Source: mxverify BV 2.8 methodology

Is a link from techradar.com worth placing?

That depends on the kind of link: by BV 2.8, a link from techradar.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 $602 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

How does techradar.com's BV compare with other sites?

At about $539 a link, techradar.com is in the “$500 or more” value band, with 23 of the 3,384 sites valued on mxverify. No site is in a higher band. The counts are mxverify's own, taken from its directory at the last daily update.

In short: techradar.com is in the highest value band of the 3,384 sites valued on mxverify.

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

How much traffic does techradar.com get?

techradar.com gets about 12.9M visits a month (Sept 2026), by a modelled estimate of all its visitors, not analytics measured on the site. 55% of them (7.1M) come from organic search. Visits fell 17% from Jul 2026 to Sept 2026.

In short: techradar.com draws about 12.9M visits a month, down 17% since Jul 2026.

Source: third-party traffic estimate, Sept 2026

Does techradar.com pass Core Web Vitals?

Yes: real Chrome users see techradar.com's largest content load in 1.2 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: techradar.com passes Core Web Vitals on real-user data.

Source: Chrome UX Report, 28 days to 19 Oct 2026; web.dev: Web Vitals

How old is techradar.com?

The domain techradar.com was registered in 2003, 22 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

Has techradar.com been audited?

No link placed on techradar.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: techradar.com's report is valued, not audited.

How BV is worked out

Site Strength 80 / 100 · level B · each factor and link type

A followed editorial link from techradar.com would be worth up to $963 under BV 2.8, before relevance: its Site Strength is 80 out of 100. The link it usually gives is level B, worth about $539 — and relevance to the site it points to moves that between $269 and $674.

Site Strength
80 / 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: 7.1M estimated monthly organic visits, as of 21 October 2026.
Worth up to
$963 · a followed editorial link at this strength, before relevance (×0.5 unrelated to ×1.25 same topic) — see how it is calculated
Usual link type
Mostly level B — may be discounted · A 34%, B 38%, C 28% → ×0.56 (each level's factor below, weighted by those shares)
Read by Jev from our own reading of techradar.com's homepage and 10 articles; 27% of the links those articles make to other sites are nofollow, sponsored or ugc, and BV caps that share of a new link at C. 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
$539 per link
Domain registered
6 December 2003 · 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 techradar.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.

LevelWhat it isFactorValue
A — CountedAn editorial citation: the site linked because it is useful to its readers.×1$963
B — May be discountedA guest, sponsored or placed article, or a product or tool directory listing.×0.5$482
C — Usually neutralisedA press release or syndicated copy, a forum post, profile, footer or sidebar link — and any nofollow link.×0.1$96
D — NetworkA site on a server whose sites show footprints of one owner, a link farm, or machine-generated pages.×0.05$48

How techradar.com links out: the full reading

10 articles read · each link counted

Read by mxverify on 21 October 2026: the homepage and 10 articles (4 from its feed, 6 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.

Strong sample 78 links to other sites across 10 articles published Dec 2015 – Oct 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
  • Followed73%
  • Nofollow2.6%
  • Sponsored24%
  • User-generated (ugc)0%

78 links to other sites across 10 articles, share buttons left out. BV counts 27% of a new link's weight at most C, because that share of the site's own links is nofollow, sponsored or ugc.

What its homepage offers

No guest-post, sponsored-post or advertising pages linked from the homepage.

Articles read

Jev, the model that judges every link in a bklink audit, reads these pages as a site whose links are mostly level A — A 87%, B 12%, C 1.0%, 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 34%, B 38%, C 28%, D 0%.

Jev reads it as a publication (100%), established as a source (56%), and not selling guest, sponsored or paid posts (54%).

Traffic in detail

engagement, top keywords, AI assistants

Modelled estimates for Sept 2026, as of 21 October 2026: site-wide, all visitors, not analytics measured on the site itself.

#5,945global rank
#2,780rank in US
61%bounce rate
1.6pages per visit
58stime on site
Every channel
  • Organic search55%
  • Direct27%
  • Referrals6.6%
  • Social4.2%
  • AI assistants1.2%
  • Email1.3%
  • Paid5.1%
  • Affiliate and other0.0%

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

Top search keywords
KeywordSearches / moCPCAd value / moVisits (est.)
website builder comparison1.3M$0.00$084.1K
quordle362.6K$0.81$293.7K43.9K
expressvpn discount code755.2K$3.78$2.9M41.1K
techradar44.4K$0.32$14.2K39.7K
budget smartphone1.8M$0.14$256K37.4K

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 153.9K visits in Sept 2026 — 1.2% of all visits. Each assistant's share of those visits, by month:

ChatGPTGeminiClaude

0%50%100%Jul 2026Aug 2026Sept 2026ChatGPT, Jul 2026: 89% of AI-assistant visitsChatGPT, Aug 2026: 74% of AI-assistant visitsChatGPT, Sept 2026: 42% of AI-assistant visitsGemini, Jul 2026: 8.1% of AI-assistant visitsGemini, Aug 2026: 4.9% of AI-assistant visitsGemini, Sept 2026: 7.1% of AI-assistant visitsClaude, Jul 2026: 2.6% of AI-assistant visitsClaude, Aug 2026: 3.3% of AI-assistant visitsClaude, Sept 2026: 1.8% of AI-assistant visits
AssistantJul 2026Aug 2026Sept 2026
ChatGPT89%74%42%
Gemini8.1%4.9%7.1%
Claude2.6%3.3%1.8%

Third-party traffic estimates. BV uses only the organic-search figure.

Server and network

a CDN edge, shared by unrelated sites

techradar.com is served through Fastly (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.

Fastly (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
FigureSourceWhat it covers
Backlink valueBV 2.8Site Strength × link type; link type from our reading of the site
Links placed herebklink auditsNone audited yet
How it links outRead by mxverify78 links to other sites in 10 articles, published Dec 2015 – Oct 2026; read 21 Oct 2026 Strong sample
TrafficThird-party estimatesModelled estimates for Sept 2026, site-wide and for all visitors, as of 21 Oct 2026
AuthorityAhrefs Domain RatingHalf of Site Strength, shown in steps of 5, as of 21 Oct 2026; the rating itself is not shown
Server and networkDNS and ASN registry199.232.198.114 · Fastly (CDN) · a CDN edge, shared by unrelated sites
Domain ageDomain registry (RDAP)Registered 6 Dec 2003

Limitations: what this report does not show

7 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 techradar.com 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.
  • techradar.com gives more than one kind of link (A 34% · B 38% · C 28%), so BV prices a blend of them: an editorial link there would be worth $963 and a guest or sponsored one $482, before relevance.
  • techradar.com's visits fell 17% from Jul 2026 to Sept 2026. Half of Site Strength is organic search traffic, so a fall that lasts lowers BV when the figure is next read.

Compiled from bklink.uk audits · maintained by Palash Bagchi · updated 21 October 2026