Editorial
Editorial Guidelines
The rules every listing on this site is built under: where each figure comes from, which ones we fetch ourselves, how the traffic estimate is read against the keywords behind it, and why a listing only ever shows what was actually measured.
Figures current as of Oct 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: Moz for Domain Authority, Ahrefs for Domain Rating, Semrush for the traffic estimate, and our SEO tool reports for the keyword, referring-domain and backlink counts. Each is published exactly as it was reported — not adjusted, and 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, and they are set out, with how each one is read, under what we verify ourselves.
Figures supplied by the tools
- Domain Authority Moz 83 of 84
- Domain Rating Ahrefs 84 of 84
- Organic traffic Semrush, monthly estimate 67 of 84
- Ranking keywords Our SEO tool reports 80 of 84
- Referring domains Our SEO tool reports 83 of 84
- Backlinks Our SEO tool reports 83 of 84
The right-hand column is the number of the 84 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. Price is not among the fields: every listing reads “Email for today’s price”, for the reasons under why there is no price.
How Traffic Is Read
The traffic figure on a listing is Semrush's estimate of monthly organic search visits from the United States, published as Semrush reports it on the 67 listings where it gives one; the keyword count beside it is Semrush's US count too. It is the only traffic source the directory publishes, and it is never blended with another tool's figure or replaced by one of ours. Referring domains, backlinks and the Spam Score are Moz's, read on the same day as the Domain Authority.
A reported zero and a missing figure are kept apart. Where Semrush reports 0, the listing prints 0, because that is a measurement. Where Semrush gives no figure, the listing carries no traffic line at all, and on the directory's traffic sort it falls below every listing that has one, the zeros included.
What checks the estimate is the ranking keyword count beside it. Where a listing has a traffic estimate and at least one ranking keyword, the first is divided by the second to give visits per keyword, and the listing sets that ratio against the directory median, taken across the 67 listings that have one: 32.8 as of Oct 2026. A listing without a keyword count, or with a count of zero, has no ratio, and nothing stands in for it.
The check ends there. It produces no grade and no score: only a ratio and a median, both printed, and both easy to recompute from the listing itself. What a ratio far above the median, a handful of keywords or an estimate of zero means for a placement is covered in the buyer's guide.
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 — registration from the registry's RDAP service, page count, update cadence and news sitemaps from the sitemap protocol, crawler policy from robots.txt as Google's own documentation describes it — and the count is the number of the 84 current listings on which that check returned a fact.
- Registration date The domain registry, over RDAP 83 of 84
- Platform Fingerprint of the homepage markup 70 of 84
- Indexed pages Every URL entry in the sitemap tree 70 of 84
- Update cadence Sitemap lastmod timestamps 16 of 84
- AI-crawler policy robots.txt, parsed as crawler groups 76 of 84
- Google News sitemap A news sitemap in the sitemap tree 2 of 84
- Declared language The language attribute on the page 76 of 84
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.
- Update 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.
- Google News sitemap. Recorded when the sitemap tree includes a news sitemap, recognised by its address or by the Google News markup in its entries. It appears on a listing only when one is found.
- 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 left out of every rank and median: a listing without a keyword count is not ranked on keywords and does not count toward the keyword median, and on a sort by that figure it falls below every listing that has one.
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 measured, by a tool or by us. No missing figure is estimated, borrowed from a similar site, or filled in to make the layout look complete. We publish what was measured.
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 today’s price”, 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 is placed above another because of anything paid to us. The directory table opens on Domain Authority, highest first, for every visitor alike, and it reorders only when you choose one of the other sorts: Domain Rating, Semrush traffic, ranking keywords or oldest domain.
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 Oct 2026 and covers 84 publications across 8 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.