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Backlink value and traffic report for timesofindia.indiatimes.com
It is served through Akamai (CDN), a content delivery network, so its address is shared edge infrastructure and says nothing about who runs it. Its domain was registered in 1996.
The badge shows what a link from timesofindia.indiatimes.com is worth, as this report does, and updates by itself. It links to this report.
Backlink value · what one new followed link from timesofindia.indiatimes.com is worth to rankings
BV$141per link · level B · nofollow · strength 85$71 unrelated ×0.5$177 same topic ×1.25
- Organic search37%
- Direct34%
- Affiliate and other15%
- Referrals8.0%
- Social2.7%
- Other channels3.4%
Links to this site
Links other sites have made to timesofindia.indiatimes.com, from outside link indexes: not the links placed on it that bklink audits.
Where the links sit: 23% in the article or main content of the linking page, 27% in its header, menu, sidebar or footer
Links placed here
No link placed on timesofindia.indiatimes.com has been audited yet. An audit on bklink.uk checks each one — still there, followed or not, where it sits — and marks this report audited.
How it links out
Followed 3%Nofollow 97%
Tech stack
Publisher signals
- Author bylines: none marked up on the homepage
- About page: not linked from the homepage
- Editorial policy: linked from the homepage
- Contact page: linked from the homepage
Page speed
Chrome users, 28 days to 24 Sept 2026: LCP 1.6 s · INP 156 ms · CLS 0.02 — passes Core Web Vitals.
Domain and hosting
Similar sites
How to use this report
- Price check. BV puts a new link from timesofindia.indiatimes.com at $141 (level B · nofollow): $71 to an unrelated site (×0.5), $177 to a same-topic site (×1.25). A followed one would be worth $596 before relevance. A followed editorial link (level A) would be worth up to $1,193 before relevance. A quote far above $746 for a followed level B link pays for what BV does not measure.
- Qualification and risk. Its Site Strength is 85 / 100; the link it usually gives is level B — may be discounted (a guest, sponsored or listed link), with nofollow on 97% of its links (in the 3 articles we read). The spam score of its links is 15 (0–100, the linking pages' average), not timesofindia.indiatimes.com's own.
- Traffic reality check. Set any traffic claim beside the Aug 2026 estimate: 252M monthly visits, 37% from organic search (93M). Visits rose 23% from Jun 2026 to Aug 2026. Its top keyword by Visits (est.) is “movierulz”, about 654.8K a month; the ad value beside it is the whole market's.
How BV is worked out
A followed editorial link from timesofindia.indiatimes.com would be worth up to $1,193 under BV 2.7, before relevance: its Site Strength is 85 out of 100. The link it usually gives is level B (a guest, sponsored or listed link), but 97% of its links are nofollow, so it is worth about $141 — and relevance to the site it points to moves that between $71 and $177.
- Site Strength
- 85
- Worth up to
- $1,193
- Usual link type
- Level B — may be discounted · nofollow on 97% of its links → ×0.12
- Relevance to your site
- ×1
- BV score
- $141 per link
- Domain registered
- 22 November 1996
A link from timesofindia.indiatimes.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 | $1,193 |
| B — May be discounted | A guest, sponsored or placed article, or a product or tool directory listing. | ×0.5 | $596 |
| C — Usually neutralised | A press release or syndicated copy, a forum post, profile, footer or sidebar link — and any nofollow link. | ×0.1 | $119 |
| D — Network | A site on a server whose sites show footprints of one owner, a link farm, or machine-generated pages. | ×0.05 | $60 |
How timesofindia.indiatimes.com links out: the full reading
Read by mxverify on 30 September 2026: the homepage and 3 articles (3 linked from its homepage). 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
- Advertising
Articles read
| Article | Published | Words | Links out | Followed | Says |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| medithon - world heart | — | 75 | 0 | 0 | — |
| The Times of India ePaper: Times of India Newspaper Today, Download PDF Now | — | 46 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Diesel Price Today in New Delhi (30 September 2026) - ₹95.2/Litre | Daily Fuel Updates | Sept 2026 | 2,259 | 31 | 1 | — |
Jev, the model that judges every link in a bklink audit, reads these pages as a site whose links are mostly level A — A 88%, B 2.0%, C 10%, 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 1.4%, B 1.5%, C 97%, D 0%.
Traffic in detail
Modelled estimates for Aug 2026, as of 30 September 2026: site-wide, all visitors, not analytics measured on the site itself.
| Keyword | Searches / mo | CPC | Ad value / mo | Visits (est.) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| times of india | 269.7K | $0.23 | $62K | 1M |
| toi | 170.9K | $0.37 | $63.2K | 661.3K |
| movierulz | 5.6M | $0.42 | $2.4M | 654.8K |
| ind vs sl | 2.9M | $0.16 | $471.3K | 495.6K |
| india vs sri lanka | 463.8K | $0.19 | $88.1K | 257.6K |
AI assistants
AI assistants sent about 3.3M visits in Aug 2026 — 1.3% of all visits. Each assistant's share of those visits, by month:
ChatGPTGeminiClaude
| Assistant | Jun 2026 | Jul 2026 | Aug 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | 54% | 74% | 76% |
| Gemini | 11% | 14% | 19% |
| Claude | 0.0% | 1.7% | 2.0% |
Server and network
timesofindia.indiatimes.com is served through Akamai (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.
Where each figure comes from
| Figure | Source | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Backlink value | BV 2.7 | Site Strength × link type; link type from our reading of the site |
| Links placed here | bklink audits | None audited yet |
| How it links out | Read by mxverify | 31 links to other sites in 3 articles, published Sept 2026; read 30 Sept 2026 Fair sample |
| Traffic | Third-party estimates | Modelled estimates for Aug 2026, site-wide and for all visitors, as of 30 Sept 2026 |
| Links to this site | Third-party backlink index | 227,079 linking sites, read 30 Sept 2026; one reading a month |
| Authority | Ahrefs Domain Rating | Half of Site Strength, shown in steps of 5, as of 1 Oct 2026; the rating itself is not shown |
| Server and network | DNS and ASN registry | 23.47.204.155 · Akamai (CDN) · a CDN edge, shared by unrelated sites |
| Domain age | Domain registry (RDAP) | Registered 22 Nov 1996 |
Limitations: what this report does not show
- 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 timesofindia.indiatimes.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.