What a link is worthmxverify · Value of a link
High-value backlink sites: 55 worth $500 or more a link
55 sites with a report on mxverify, 12 of them with links audited by bklink; the median link from them is worth $660.
What one new followed link from each site is worth to rankings, by mxverify's BV model. It is not a price anyone charges.
At a glance
Sites where a link is worth $500 or more: 55 sites with a report on mxverify. By the kind of link a new one would be, 30 are priced at level A, 24 are priced at level B and 1 is priced at level C. A new followed link from the median site here is worth $660, about 72 times the $9.18 median across all 4,533 priced sites on mxverify. Values run from $508 (rediff.com) to $1,415 (globo.com).
By third-party traffic estimates, 47 sites here have a monthly visits figure, from 359.4K to 1.3B; the median is about 31.2M, against about 47K for the median site on mxverify. 12 of the 55 sites have links placed by bklink customers and audited (maps.apple.com, 1 link, mozilla.org, 1 link, rfc-editor.org, 1 link and mapquest.com, 1 link, and others).
- Highest value: globo.com, $1,415 a link at level A.
- Most visited: bilibili.com, about 1.3B visits a month.
- Fastest to load: jalopnik.com, its main content showing in 0.9 s for three in four Chrome visitors.
- Slowest to load: grok.com, at 7.1 s.
- Oldest domain: bbc.com, registered in 1989; the newest is mistral.ai, from 2019.
- Best connected: github.com, at position 20 among the web's hosts in Common Crawl's link graph.
| # | Publication | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | globo.com | $1,415 | 894.1M | From our reading | A | 0 | — | — | — | — | 1998 | — | 1.6 s |
| 2 | nytimes.com | $1,277 | 684.7M | From our reading | A | 0 | — | — | — | — | 1994 | — | 2.3 s |
| 3 | bbc.com | $1,119 | 470.8M | From our reading | A | 0 | — | — | News | Next.js | 1989 | — | 1.5 s |
| 4 | github.com | $984 | 745.6M | From our reading | A | 0 | — | — | Technology | — | 2007 | 20 | 1.8 s |
| 5 | sportstar.thehindu.com | $932 | — | From our reading | A | 0 | — | — | Sports | — | — | 45,787 | 2.2 s |
| 6 | gamesradar.com | $927 | 13.5M | From our reading | A | 0 | — | — | — | — | 1999 | — | 1.8 s |
| 7 | maps.apple.com | $915 | — | Thin evidence | B | 1 | — | — | Business | — | — | — | 2.5 s |
| 8 | jagran.com | $902 | 57.3M | From our reading | A | 0 | — | — | News | Next.js | 1997 | 12,978 | 2.3 s |
| 9 | sports.ndtv.com | $881 | — | From our reading | A | 0 | — | — | Sports | — | — | 50,810 | 2.1 s |
| 10 | inc.com | $840 | 4.1M | From our reading | A | 0 | — | — | — | — | 1996 | — | 1.6 s |
| 11 | nintendo.com | $831 | 65.3M | From our reading | A | 0 | — | — | Gaming | Next.js | 1995 | — | 2.0 s |
| 12 | stripe.com | $825 | 130.8M | From our reading | A | 0 | — | — | Business | Next.js | 1995 | — | 1.5 s |
| 13 | pokemon.com | $797 | 16.4M | From our reading | A | 0 | — | — | — | — | 1998 | — | 1.7 s |
| 14 | mozilla.org | $780 | 14.2M | From our reading | B | 1 | — | — | Technology | — | 1998 | 65 | 1.8 s |
| 15 | republika.co.id | $759 | 7.1M | From our reading | A | 0 | — | — | — | — | 1995 | — | 1.9 s |
| 16 | rfc-editor.org | $752 | 1M | From our reading | A | 1 | — | — | Technology | Other | 1998 | 806 | 2.7 s |
| 17 | buzzfeed.com | $748 | 49.6M | From our reading | B | 0 | — | — | News | Next.js | 2002 | — | 1.5 s |
| 18 | deepseek.com | $744 | 372.8M | From our reading | B | 0 | — | — | — | Next.js | 2000 | — | 2.2 s |
| 19 | mapquest.com | $739 | — | Thin evidence | B | 1 | — | — | — | — | 1996 | — | 1.9 s |
| 20 | store.steampowered.com | $739 | 294.6M | Thin evidence | B | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2.0 s |
| 21 | aarp.org | $734 | 38.1M | From our reading | A | 0 | — | — | News | — | 1994 | — | 3.3 s |
| 22 | icann.org | $732 | 1.5M | From our reading | A | 1 | — | — | — | — | 1998 | 727 | 2.7 s |
| 23 | yelp.com | $715 | 115.8M | Thin evidence | B | 0 | — | — | — | — | 2003 | — | 2.3 s |
| 24 | builtin.com | $693 | 3.4M | From our reading | A | 0 | — | — | — | — | 1999 | — | 2.1 s |
| 25 | games.usatoday.com | $692 | 1.6M | From our reading | A | 0 | — | — | Gaming | — | — | — | 1.4 s |
| 26 | bilibili.com | $691 | 1.3B | Thin evidence | B | 0 | — | — | — | — | 2004 | — | 1.8 s |
| 27 | developer.mozilla.org | $660 | 5.3M | From our reading | B | 1 | — | — | Technology | — | — | 165 | 1.0 s |
| 28 | finance.yahoo.com | $660 | 193.4M | From our reading | A | 3 | 0% of 3 | 33% of 3 | Finance | — | — | 347 | 2.7 s |
| 29 | brave.com | $658 | 707.1M | From our reading | B | 0 | — | — | Technology | Hugo | 1995 | — | 1.7 s |
| 30 | vercel.com | $645 | 31.2M | From our reading | A | 0 | — | — | — | Next.js | 1999 | — | 4.1 s |
| 31 | wordpress.com | $634 | 121.1M | From our reading | C | 0 | — | — | — | WordPress | 2000 | — | 3.8 s |
| 32 | polygon.com | $625 | 12.3M | From our reading | B | 0 | — | — | Gaming | WordPress | 1992 | — | 1.6 s |
| 33 | anthropic.com | $602 | 18.7M | From our reading | B | 0 | — | — | — | Webflow | 2001 | — | 1.5 s |
| 34 | jalopnik.com | $598 | 4.7M | From our reading | A | 0 | — | — | Automotive | WordPress | 2004 | — | 0.9 s |
| 35 | nme.com | $597 | 5.5M | From our reading | A | 0 | — | — | News | WordPress | 1996 | — | 1.0 s |
| 36 | apnews.com | $596 | 85.1M | Thin evidence | B | 3 | — | — | Technology | — | 1991 | 285 | 2.9 s |
| 37 | britannica.com | $596 | 34.7M | Thin evidence | B | 0 | — | — | — | — | 1995 | — | 2.0 s |
| 38 | de.trustpilot.com | $596 | — | Thin evidence | B | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1.5 s |
| 39 | grok.com | $596 | 203.8M | Thin evidence | B | 0 | — | — | — | Next.js | 1994 | — | 7.1 s |
| 40 | marketwatch.com | $596 | — | Thin evidence | B | 1 | — | — | — | — | 1997 | — | 1.7 s |
| 41 | msn.com | $596 | 383.5M | Thin evidence | B | 1 | — | — | News | — | 1994 | 249 | 2.6 s |
| 42 | openai.com | $596 | 234.7M | Thin evidence | B | 0 | — | — | — | — | 2007 | — | 3.0 s |
| 43 | sports-reference.com | $588 | 8.2M | From our reading | A | 0 | — | — | Sports | — | 2000 | — | 1.7 s |
| 44 | datatracker.ietf.org | $587 | 359.4K | From our reading | A | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1.2 s |
| 45 | ghost.org | $581 | 397.4K | From our reading | A | 0 | — | — | News | Hugo | 2005 | — | 1.4 s |
| 46 | zomato.com | $577 | 14.4M | From our reading | B | 0 | — | — | — | Other | 2006 | — | 3.0 s |
| 47 | manilatimes.net | $559 | — | From our reading | A | 1 | — | — | News | — | 1998 | — | 1.9 s |
| 48 | mistral.ai | $548 | 8M | From our reading | B | 0 | — | — | — | — | 2019 | — | 3.1 s |
| 49 | callofduty.com | $547 | 10.4M | From our reading | A | 0 | — | — | Gaming | — | 1999 | — | 1.8 s |
| 50 | temu.com | $539 | 1.1B | Thin evidence | B | 0 | — | — | Beauty | — | 2003 | — | 2.5 s |
| 51 | techradar.com | $539 | 12.2M | From our reading | B | 0 | — | — | — | — | 2003 | — | 1.2 s |
| 52 | hindi.theprint.in | $530 | — | From our reading | A | 0 | — | — | News | WordPress | — | 337,865 | 2.4 s |
| 53 | kotaku.com | $522 | 9M | From our reading | B | 0 | — | — | News | WordPress | 2002 | — | 1.4 s |
| 54 | cohere.com | $514 | 605.1K | From our reading | A | 0 | — | — | — | Next.js | 2000 | — | 2.1 s |
| 55 | rediff.com | $508 | 47.5M | From our reading | A | 0 | — | — | Finance | — | 1997 | 10,056 | 1.0 s |
How this group compares
- 9 of the 55 run Next.js (16%), against 15% of all sites on mxverify.
- Median load time is 1.9 s, against 2.1 s across mxverify; 42 of the 55 with Chrome field data load in under 2.5 s, Google's mark for a good page.
- 44 domains were registered before 2010 and 0 in the 2020s, of the 45 with a public registration date.
- The most common category is News, for 10 of the 55.
- 33 show ad networks on their homepage and 4 show none we could find.
- For 37 of them the largest share of visitors comes from United States, by the traffic estimate.
Before placing a link here
- 1 site is 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.
- 43 of the 55 have no audited links, so how links there behave after they are placed is not measured yet.
- vercel.com and grok.com load in over 4 s for real visitors, which readers notice.