Editorial
Editorial Guidelines
The rules every listing on this site is built under: where each figure comes from, which ones we check ourselves, how the two traffic sources are graded against each other, and why a listing only ever shows what was actually measured.
Figures current as of Sep 2026
What We Publish
Every publication here has its own page, and every one of those pages is assembled the same way from the same two kinds of input. We keep them apart on purpose, because they are not the same kind of evidence.
The first kind is measured by somebody else. Authority and traffic figures come from our own Moz, Ahrefs and Semrush subscriptions and are published exactly as those tools report them — not adjusted, not reconciled, not rounded toward a better-looking number.
The second kind we fetch ourselves, live from the domain, while the listing is being built. Those are the facts that do not depend on either a tool's estimate or on a publisher's description of their own site.
Figures supplied by the tools
- Domain Authority Moz 25 of 25
- Domain Rating Ahrefs 25 of 25
- Organic traffic Ahrefs 25 of 25
- Organic traffic Semrush 25 of 25
- Authority Score Semrush 25 of 25
- Organic keywords Our Moz, Ahrefs and Semrush subscriptions 25 of 25
- Referring domains Our Moz, Ahrefs and Semrush subscriptions 25 of 25
- Backlinks Our Moz, Ahrefs and Semrush subscriptions 25 of 25
The right-hand column is the number of the 25 listings currently carrying that field. It is counted from the data when the site is built, so this table can never describe a figure the directory does not actually hold.
The Two-Source Traffic Rule
Ahrefs and Semrush both estimate organic traffic, from different keyword databases and different clickstream sources. We publish both readings on every listing that has them. We never average them, never merge them into a single traffic number, and never quietly drop the less flattering one.
The distance between them is itself a measurement. We divide the higher reading by the lower and grade the result from A to D. These are the thresholds the code applies, and the count beside each is where the current listings fall.
25 of the 25 listings carry a grade today.
Three cases sit outside that scale, and each is handled by stating what is true rather than by forcing a letter onto it. When only one of the two tools returned a figure, we publish that reading and grade nothing — a single number has nothing to be cross-checked against. When one tool reports traffic the other cannot see at all, there is no ratio to express, so the listing is graded D on the zero reading itself rather than on an invented multiplier. When neither tool reports measurable traffic, that is also a D, and the listing says so in words.
That middle case is not rare. On 21 of the 25 listings here both tools returned a figure and one of them returned zero — which is among the most useful things a buyer can know about a domain before paying for a placement on it, and exactly what a directory quoting one flattering number would never show.
The closest agreement currently listed
magboxworld.com is the listing whose two sources agree most closely: Ahrefs reports 2.5K monthly visits, Semrush reports 5.8K — a 2.3× difference, graded B. Both numbers stay on the page. We do not replace them with a midpoint, because a midpoint is a figure neither tool measured.
Judged on the Lower Reading
Wherever anything on this site is computed from traffic, it is computed from the smaller of the two readings. The directory's traffic sort ranks on it. The figure the home page prints as “Traffic, lower source”, and the one the buyer's guide prints as verified visits, are both it. The combined reach printed on each subject hub adds it up rather than the higher one. A listing is therefore never flattered by whichever tool happened to report more, and every traffic figure derived on this site is a floor rather than a best case.
On magboxworld.com above, that means the Ahrefs reading of 2.5K is the figure the listing is judged on, even though the higher one is published immediately beside it.
That example is the comfortable case. The uncomfortable one is commoner: on 21 of the 25 listings the lower reading is zero, and the rule is applied to those exactly as written. Their verified-visits figure is zero, they contribute nothing to a subject hub's combined reach, and on the directory's traffic sort they sit at the foot of the table. We could have read those listings on the Semrush figure instead and every one of them would look better. The rule does not bend for the listings it is unkind to, which is the only thing that makes it worth publishing.
A reading of zero and no reading at all are different facts, and the site keeps them apart. A tool that reported zero is a measurement, and it is printed as one. A tool that returned nothing is not: that listing carries no grade, and on a traffic sort it falls after every row that carries a reading rather than ranking alongside a zero somebody actually measured.
What We Verify Ourselves
These are the fields we do not take on anybody's word. Each is fetched from the domain itself by the ingest script as a listing is built, and the count is the number of the 25 current listings on which that check returned a fact.
- Registration date The domain registry, over RDAP 25 of 25
- Platform Fingerprint of the homepage markup 24 of 25
- Indexed pages Every URL entry in the sitemap tree 23 of 25
- Publishing cadence Sitemap lastmod timestamps 2 of 25
- AI-crawler policy robots.txt, parsed as crawler groups 24 of 25
- Declared language The language attribute on the page 24 of 25
How each check is made
- Registration date. Read from the domain's RDAP record at the registry, following referrals, and accepted only when it parses as a real calendar date that is not in the future. A renewal or expiry date returned in place of a registration event is rejected rather than published as an age.
- Platform. Identified from the homepage markup — a generator declaration, an asset path served from this domain, or a platform's own runtime marker in the page. Where a platform is recognised by its file paths, those paths count only when they are this site's own, so a name appearing in passing is not read as this site's stack.
- Indexed pages. Counted by walking the sitemap tree, including indexes nested inside indexes, and only across sitemaps on the same domain. Some sites declare other people's sitemaps in their robots.txt; summing those would produce a number describing the wrong website. If any part of the tree cannot be read, no page count is published at all — an undercount we know is short of the truth is still a wrong figure.
- Publishing cadence. Taken from the sitemap's own lastmod timestamps over the preceding 90 days and expressed as a monthly rate. A lastmod records any change rather than a publication, so a day whose volume runs past five times the median is read as bulk maintenance and dropped — and a rate more than three times what the archive could have produced across its whole life is dropped entirely rather than published.
- AI-crawler policy. Read from robots.txt, parsed as crawler groups the way the standard defines them, so that a single block naming several AI agents before one rule is understood as covering all of them. Crawler names are matched exactly, an empty disallow is read as permission rather than restriction, and an HTML page served where robots.txt should be is not treated as a policy.
- Declared language. Taken from the language attribute the page declares, and accepted only when it is a plausible language tag rather than an unrendered template placeholder.
What We Leave Off
A check that does not return a fact is stored as nothing, and a field stored as nothing is left off the listing entirely — no row, no chip, no label, no dash standing in for one. It is also excluded from the confidence score rather than counted as a low value, so a listing is never marked down for a measurement we did not obtain.
This is a deliberate choice and it cuts both ways. It means a listing you are reading may show fewer fields than another one, and it means every field you can see was checked. Nothing on a listing page is estimated, inferred from a similar site, or filled in to make the layout look complete. We publish what we checked.
The same rule governs this page. Every figure above is counted from the live data when the site is built, so the examples move when the data moves and none of them can quietly go stale.
Why There Is No Price
Placement rates change. A price typed into a build is wrong the first time a publisher moves theirs, and a stale price is precisely the kind of wrong data the rest of this site exists to avoid. Every listing therefore reads “Email for details”, and you get the current figure from a person rather than last month's from a page.
Nothing that depended on a price survives anywhere on the site either — no value ratio, no price range, no budget filter. Those were removed rather than estimated. Send us a shortlist and we will confirm what those publications cost today.
Sort Order Is Not for Sale
No listing appears above another because of what it paid. There is no promoted tier, no featured slot and no paid position in any ranking on this site. The directory's order is whichever sort you select — authority, traffic or domain age — and the default is Domain Authority, highest first, for every visitor alike.
We do not own the publications we list and we do not control what they do. A listing here is a statement about what we measured, not an endorsement of a publisher's editorial decisions.
How Often the Figures Move
The whole set is re-pulled in a single run, and it moves as one: every listing on this site carries figures from the same review, stamped with that date, so no two listings are being compared across different moments in time.
The set currently published was compiled in Sep 2026 and covers 25 publications across 6 subjects. Between runs nothing on a listing is edited by hand. A figure you read here is the one that run returned, not one adjusted since, which is why the review date is worth as much as the number beside it. What we do with a listing that changes materially, and when one is taken down, is on the about page.
Corrections
If a figure here is wrong, we would rather hear it than leave it. Publishers may ask for a listing to be corrected or removed, and buyers may challenge any number on any page — tell us which listing and which field, and we will re-run the check against the domain and correct what it returns.
Write to timeviewblog@gmail.com, or use the contact page. The about page covers the same method in brief, and the buyer's guide explains how to read a listing built this way.