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Data-driven research on the open web's link graph, technology adoption, and SEO methodology, sourced from our monthly web crawl.

• May 5, 2026  ·  7 min read

  The ccTLD map of high-authority web in 2026

  Which countries hold the most authoritative websites by ccTLD share. Germany leads. China-Japan flip places at the top tier. And the United States is conspicuously absent because .com is not a ccTLD.

  research country-distribution web-graph ccTLD
• May 4, 2026  ·  11 min read

  The 100 most-linked-to domains on the web (2026 edition)

  A ranked list of the 100 domains receiving the most inbound links from the open web, with our domain authority score (DR 0-100), inbound reach relative to the leader, and dofollow ratio for each.

  backlinks domain-authority research web-graph
• May 4, 2026  ·  7 min read

  What runs the high-DR web in 2026

  We checked the technology fingerprints of every high-authority domain in our crawl. WordPress runs roughly three quarters of the CMS share, Cloudflare fronts more than two thirds of the CDN share, and PHP is still everywhere.

  technology research wordpress web-stack
• May 4, 2026  ·  7 min read

  The hidden URL shorteners holding the link graph together

  A dozen short-link domains, most of them just two or three characters under a country-code TLD, sit in the top-100 of the web's authority ranking. Several of them rank above microsoft.com and apple.com on inbound diversity. We worked out which ones, why, and what happens when one shuts down.

  backlinks research url-shorteners web-graph