Backlinks for mastodon.social

41,268 distinct domains link to mastodon.social in the current Common Crawl hyperlink graph release.

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What these backlinks mean

A backlink is one domain linking to another. Search engines use them as the oldest signal of site authority: if mastodon.social is linked to by 41,268 different domains, it has accumulated a lot of cross-web references. The specific domains doing the linking often matter more than the raw count — a link from bbc.com counts for more than a link from a throwaway blog network.

This page shows the top 10 linking domains by linking host count (how many distinct hosts live under that domain). It's a reasonable proxy for domain size and trust. For the full picture — every domain that links to mastodon.social, with host counts — buy lifetime access.

Where the data comes from

All counts are sourced from the Common Crawl hyperlink graph, a public dataset built from a broad sample of the web. Common Crawl publishes a new release every quarter, and Microcrawl rebuilds against each release automatically. The data is never older than three months.

Every backlink dataset comes from a crawler sampling the web, and every crawler finds a slightly different slice. Common Crawl is the largest open sample — the one used by researchers, academics, and major AI training pipelines. Counts from Microcrawl land in the same order of magnitude as commercial datasets because the underlying web is the same.

FAQ

How many domains link to mastodon.social?

41,268 distinct domains, according to the latest Common Crawl hyperlink graph release.

Where does this backlink data come from?

From the Common Crawl hyperlink graph, a public dataset built from a broad sample of the web. It is refreshed quarterly. Microcrawl indexes it and exposes it as a lookup tool.

Is this list exhaustive?

No backlink dataset is — the web is too large for any single crawler to fully index. Every dataset works from a sample. Common Crawl is among the largest open samples, and its counts land in the same order of magnitude as the major commercial datasets.

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