--- title: "Backlink Value & Traffic Report for wellfound.com" url: https://mxverify.uk/publications/wellfound.com description: "A followed link from wellfound.com is worth $79 by BV 2.8 (link type C). Not yet audited. Served through Cloudflare (CDN). Domain registered 1998." site: mxverify generated: 2026-10-22T04:16:02.284Z --- mxverify · valued # Backlink value and traffic report for wellfound.com It is served through Cloudflare (CDN), a content delivery network, so its address is shared edge infrastructure and says nothing about who runs it. Its domain was registered in 1998. **In short:** A new followed link from wellfound.com is worth about $79 to rankings by BV 2.8 (level C, Site Strength 75 of 100); BV is an estimate, not a price anyone charges. It gets about 4.8M visits a month, 21% from organic search, down 2.1% since Jul 2026. No link placed on it has been audited. Last updated 22 October 2026 · [Visit wellfound.com](https://wellfound.com/?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) [Compare](https://mxverify.uk/compare/wellfound.com#add) Show wellfound.com's BV badge on your site The badge shows what a link from wellfound.com is worth, as this report does, and updates by itself. It links to this report. Embed code (HTML) Copied Paste it where the badge should appear. It is a plain link and image: no script runs on your site. ## Backlink value · what one new followed link from wellfound.com is worth to rankings [BV **$79** per link · level C · strength 75](https://bklink.uk/methodology?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report#bv) **Relevance to the linked site moves it** **$40** unrelated ×0.5 **$99** same topic ×1.25 **By the kind of link it gives** - A editorial $778 - B guest, sponsored $389 - C neutralised $78 - D network $39 Priced on a blend of link types: B 1% · C 99% → ×0.1. [How BV is worked out](https://mxverify.uk/publications/wellfound.com#bv-detail) · BV 2.8 · not a price anyone charges **4.8M** monthly visits −2.1% since Jul 2026 **1M** from organic search 21% of visits **[48,617](https://mxverify.uk/publications/wellfound.com#links-in)** sites link to it 10,054 of them nofollow **[1998](https://mxverify.uk/publications/registered/1990s)** domain registered 27 years ago **[2.7 s](https://mxverify.uk/publications/wellfound.com#tech)** page load for real users (LCP) does not pass Core Web Vitals **[98%](https://mxverify.uk/publications/wellfound.com#reading)** of its own links nofollow in the articles we read More like it: [Forum, profile and PR backlink sites](https://mxverify.uk/publications/level/c) · [Backlink sites worth $50 to $99 a link](https://mxverify.uk/publications/value/50-99) · [Technology websites and tech blogs](https://mxverify.uk/publications/category/technology) · [Old websites from the 90s](https://mxverify.uk/publications/registered/1990s) **Monthly visits** Jul 2026: 4.9M visits; Aug 2026: 5M visits; Sept 2026: 4.8M visits **Where visitors come from** Direct 53%, Organic search 21%, Social 8.9%, Email 7.5%, Referrals 4.4% - Direct **53%** - Organic search **21%** - Social **8.9%** - Email **7.5%** - Referrals **4.4%** - Other channels **4.7%** Organic search, in green, is the traffic BV prices on. **Top countries** - India 50% - United States 24% - Canada 2.1% - United Kingdom 1.9% - Philippines 1.3% - Other countries 21% ## Links to this site Links other sites have made to wellfound.com, from outside link indexes: not the links placed on it that bklink audits. **48,617** websites link to it 10,054 of them with nofollow links **7.8M** links in all, from those websites about 160 per website · first seen 2019 **4** spam score of its links 0–100, the linking pages' average **24,179** IP addresses they link from 11,089 subnets **Where the links sit:** 3.2% in the article or main content of the linking page, 46% in its header, menu, sidebar or footer · 32% in no page section the index could name, the rest in other sections; of the 6.5M links it sorted by where they sit Sources: link counts and spam score from a third-party backlink index, read 22 October 2026; the chart grows by one reading a month. BV prices on none of these. ## Links placed here No link placed on wellfound.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 wellfound.com is nofollow. It is followed only when the site's owner audits wellfound.com's own backlinks on bklink.uk, chooses to publish it and proves the site is theirs — for 90 days from each audit. [When a link here is followed](https://mxverify.uk/methodology#followed-links) ## How it links out **2%** of its links followed **66** links to other sites **3** articles read Followed 2% Nofollow 98% Fair sample Read 22 Oct 2026 · [the full reading](https://mxverify.uk/publications/wellfound.com#reading) ## Tech stack - [Served byCloudflare](https://mxverify.uk/publications/tech/cloudflare) ### Publisher signals - ✗ Author bylines: none marked up on the homepage - ✓ About page: linked from the homepage - ✗ Editorial policy: not linked from the homepage - ✗ Contact page: not linked from the homepage Structured data: Organization, WebSite, WebPage, BreadcrumbList, ListItem, FAQPage +2. The homepage only; BV does not price on these. ### Page speed Chrome users, 28 days to 19 Oct 2026: LCP 2.7 s · INP 139 ms · CLS 0.02 — does not pass Core Web Vitals. Source: Chrome UX Report (Google), CC BY 4.0. Each pill opens every site with a report that shares it. Sources: homepage read 22 Oct 2026. ## Domain and hosting - **Domain registered**: [17 December 1998](https://mxverify.uk/publications/registered/1990s) - **Content category**: [technology](https://mxverify.uk/publications/category/technology) - **Server address**: 104.18.20.87 · CDN edge, shared by unrelated sites - **Hosting network**: Cloudflare (CDN) · AS13335 · US How to use this report 4 ways to use these figures - **Price check.** BV puts one new followed link from wellfound.com at $79 (level C), priced on a blend of link types (B 1% · C 99%): $40 to an unrelated site (×0.5), $99 to a same-topic site (×1.25). A followed editorial link (level A) would be worth up to $778 before relevance. A quote far above $97 for a level C link pays for what BV does not measure. · [Backlink value](https://mxverify.uk/publications/wellfound.com#value) · [what this means](https://mxverify.uk/guide#use) - **Qualification and risk.** Its Site Strength is 75 / 100; the link it usually gives is mostly level C — usually neutralised (a press-release, syndicated, profile or forum link). In the 3 articles we read, 98% 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 wellfound.com's own. · [How BV is worked out](https://mxverify.uk/publications/wellfound.com#bv-detail) · [what this means](https://mxverify.uk/guide#levels) - **Traffic reality check.** Set any traffic claim beside the Sept 2026 estimate: 4.8M monthly visits, 21% from organic search (1M). Visits fell 2.1% from Jul 2026 to Sept 2026. · [Traffic in detail](https://mxverify.uk/publications/wellfound.com#traffic) · [what this means](https://mxverify.uk/guide#traffic) - **AI assistant visits.** 3.6% of its visits in Sept 2026 came from AI assistants' answers, about 170.8K (visits, not citations); ChatGPT sent the most in Sept 2026, 90% of them. · [AI assistants](https://mxverify.uk/publications/wellfound.com#ai-assistants) · [what this means](https://mxverify.uk/guide#ai) What each figure means, and what it cannot tell you: [How to read a site report](https://mxverify.uk/guide). Quick answers about wellfound.com 9 questions answered ### What is a link from wellfound.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 wellfound.com is worth about $79 (level C). Relevance moves it: $40 to an unrelated site, $99 to a same-topic site. BV is an estimate of ranking value, not a price anyone charges. In short: a link from wellfound.com is worth about $79 to rankings, up to $99 on the same topic. Source: [mxverify BV 2.8 methodology](https://mxverify.uk/methodology) ### Is a link from wellfound.com worth placing? That depends on the kind of link: by BV 2.8, a link from wellfound.com is worth $778 as an editorial citation (level A), $389 as a guest, sponsored or listed link (level B), $78 as a press-release, syndicated, profile or forum link (level C), $39 as a network link (level D), before relevance. A price far above $97 for a level C 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](https://mxverify.uk/methodology) ### How does wellfound.com's BV compare with other sites? At about $79 a link, wellfound.com is in the “$50 to $99” value band, with 204 of the 3,466 sites valued on mxverify. 346 sites are in a higher band. The counts are mxverify's own, taken from its directory at the last daily update. In short: 346 of the 3,466 valued sites sit in a higher value band than wellfound.com. Source: mxverify's own directory, counted at the last daily update ### How much traffic does wellfound.com get? wellfound.com gets about 4.8M visits a month (Sept 2026), by a modelled estimate of all its visitors, not analytics measured on the site. 21% of them (1M) come from organic search. Visits fell 2.1% from Jul 2026 to Sept 2026. In short: wellfound.com draws about 4.8M visits a month, down 2.1% since Jul 2026. Source: [third-party traffic estimate, Sept 2026](https://mxverify.uk/publications/wellfound.com#evidence) ### Does wellfound.com pass Core Web Vitals? No: real Chrome users see wellfound.com's largest content load in 2.7 s (LCP), and at least one vital reported for it is not 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: wellfound.com does not pass Core Web Vitals on real-user data. Source: [Chrome UX Report, 28 days to 19 Oct 2026](https://developer.chrome.com/docs/crux); [web.dev: Web Vitals](https://web.dev/articles/vitals) ### Does wellfound.com link out with nofollow? In the 3 articles we read, wellfound.com made 66 links to other sites, and 98% of them were nofollow, sponsored or ugc; the other 2% were followed. BV prices a nofollow link at level C (×0.1), whatever the site is otherwise worth. In short: about 98% of wellfound.com's outbound links are nofollow, so a new link placed there may be too. Source: [mxverify's reading of 3 articles, 22 Oct 2026](https://mxverify.uk/publications/wellfound.com#reading); [Google Search Central: qualify your outbound links](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/qualify-outbound-links) ### How old is wellfound.com? The domain wellfound.com was registered in 1998, 27 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](https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9083/) ### How many sites link to wellfound.com? 48,617 websites link to wellfound.com, each counted once. 10,054 of them (21%) link with nofollow. Source: [third-party backlink index, Oct 2026](https://mxverify.uk/publications/wellfound.com#evidence) ### Has wellfound.com been audited? No link placed on wellfound.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: wellfound.com's report is valued, not audited. How BV is worked out Site Strength 75 / 100 · level C · each factor and link type A followed editorial link from wellfound.com would be worth up to $778 under BV 2.8, before relevance: its Site Strength is 75 out of 100. The link it usually gives is level C, worth about $79 — and relevance to the site it points to moves that between $40 and $99. - **Site Strength**: **75** / 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: 1M estimated monthly organic visits, as of 22 October 2026. - **Worth up to**: $778 · a followed editorial link at this strength, before relevance (×0.5 unrelated to ×1.25 same topic) — see [how it is calculated](https://mxverify.uk/backlink-value#how) - **Usual link type**: Mostly level C — usually neutralised · B 1%, C 99% → ×0.1 (each level's factor below, weighted by those shares) Read by Jev from our own reading of wellfound.com's homepage and 3 articles; 98% 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**: **$79** per link - **Domain registered**: 17 December 1998 · 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 wellfound.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 | $778 | | B — May be discounted | A guest, sponsored or placed article, or a product or tool directory listing. | ×0.5 | $389 | | C — Usually neutralised | A press release or syndicated copy, a forum post, profile, footer or sidebar link — and any nofollow link. | ×0.1 | $78 | | D — Network | A site on a server whose sites show footprints of one owner, a link farm, or machine-generated pages. | ×0.05 | $39 | How wellfound.com links out: the full reading 3 articles read · each link counted Read by mxverify on 22 October 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 66 links to other sites across 3 articles. 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 1.5% - Nofollow 98% - Sponsored 0% - User-generated (ugc) 0% 66 links to other sites across 3 articles, share buttons left out. BV counts 98% 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 | Article | Words | Links out | Followed | Says | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [25 Startups Hiring For Junior Software Engineer Jobs \| Wellfound](https://wellfound.com/job-collections/junior-software-engineer-jobs?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | 1,865 | 25 | 0 | — | | [41 Companies That Hire Coding Bootcamp Graduates \| Wellfound](https://wellfound.com/job-collections/companies-that-hire-coding-bootcamp-graduates?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | 4,399 | 40 | 0 | — | | [Connect Wellfound Reach to your AI assistant - Wellfound Support](https://help.wellfound.com/article/1221-connect-wellfound-reach-to-your-ai-assistant?utm_source=mxverify.uk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=site-report) | 1,506 | 1 | 1 | — | Jev, the model that judges every link in a bklink audit, reads these pages as a site whose links are mostly level **B** — A 41%, B 49%, 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 0.0%, B 0.5%, C 99%, D 0%. Jev reads it as a platform where users post (55%), established as a source (44%), and not selling guest, sponsored or paid posts (92%). Traffic in detail engagement, top keywords, AI assistants Modelled estimates for Sept 2026, as of 22 October 2026: site-wide, all visitors, not analytics measured on the site itself. - **#9,089** global rank - **#1,485** rank in IN - **36%** bounce rate - **6.3** pages per visit - **5m 09s** time on site **Every channel** - Organic search 21% - Direct 53% - Referrals 4.4% - Social 8.9% - AI assistants 3.6% - Email 7.5% - Paid 1.1% - Affiliate and other 0.0% Share of all visits. Organic search is highlighted: it is the traffic BV prices on. **Top search keywords** | Keyword | Searches / mo | CPC | Ad value / mo | Visits (est.) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [wellfound](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/wellfound) | 339.7K | $0.80 | $271.8K | 391.5K | | [well found](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/well-found) | 30.1K | $0.82 | $24.7K | 32.6K | | [wellfound jobs](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/wellfound-jobs) | 21.9K | $0.78 | $17.1K | 28.3K | | [wellfoun](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/wellfoun) | 6,170 | $0.12 | $740 | 8,020 | | [welfound](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/welfound) | 4,270 | $0.14 | $598 | 5,290 | 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 **170.8K** visits in Sept 2026 — 3.6% of all visits. Each assistant's share of those visits, by month: ChatGPT Gemini Perplexity ChatGPT: Jul 2026 65%, Aug 2026 78%, Sept 2026 90%; Gemini: Jul 2026 5.7%, Aug 2026 7.8%, Sept 2026 7.2%; Perplexity: Jul 2026 1.1%, Aug 2026 1.5%, Sept 2026 2.0% | Assistant | Jul 2026 | Aug 2026 | Sept 2026 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | ChatGPT | 65% | 78% | 90% | | Gemini | 5.7% | 7.8% | 7.2% | | Perplexity | 1.1% | 1.5% | 2.0% | Third-party traffic estimates. BV uses only the organic-search figure. Server and network a CDN edge, shared by unrelated sites wellfound.com 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/wellfound.com#value) | BV 2.8 | Site Strength × link type; link type from our reading of the site | | [Links placed here](https://mxverify.uk/publications/wellfound.com#links) | bklink audits | None audited yet | | [How it links out](https://mxverify.uk/publications/wellfound.com#reading) | Read by mxverify | 66 links to other sites in 3 articles; read 22 Oct 2026 Fair sample | | [Traffic](https://mxverify.uk/publications/wellfound.com#traffic) | Third-party estimates | Modelled estimates for Sept 2026, site-wide and for all visitors, as of 22 Oct 2026 | | [Links to this site](https://mxverify.uk/publications/wellfound.com#links-in) | Third-party backlink index | 48,617 linking sites, read 22 Oct 2026; one reading a month | | [Authority](https://mxverify.uk/publications/wellfound.com#value) | Ahrefs Domain Rating | Half of Site Strength, shown in steps of 5, as of 22 Oct 2026; the rating itself is not shown | | [Server and network](https://mxverify.uk/publications/wellfound.com#server) | DNS and ASN registry | 104.18.20.87 · Cloudflare (CDN) · a CDN edge, shared by unrelated sites | | [Domain age](https://mxverify.uk/publications/wellfound.com#hosting) | Domain registry (RDAP) | Registered 17 Dec 1998 | Limitations: what this report does not show 6 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 wellfound.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. - wellfound.com gives more than one kind of link (B 1% · C 99%), so BV prices a blend of them: an editorial link there would be worth $778 and a guest or sponsored one $389, before relevance. 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 22 October 2026 --- Source: mxverify, "Backlink Value & Traffic Report for wellfound.com", https://mxverify.uk/publications/wellfound.com (retrieved 2026-10-22). How every figure is worked out: https://mxverify.uk/methodology