Last updated: August 2026
Buffer provides social media management software that helps individuals, creators, small businesses, and teams schedule posts, analyze performance, and manage engagement across social platforms. The buff.ly domain is Buffer’s branded URL shortener used to share and track links from the Buffer platform.
Global rank: Worldwide · 2026-08
#26,073
AI visibility: Grade F
30
SEO health: Latest audit
98
Visits
0
per month, estimated
Keywords
0
ranking in Google
Organic share
0%
of all search traffic
LLMS.txt
Missing
AI engines have to guess
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buff.ly Web Traffic Statistics
Key findings
- Buffer, Inc. (Software / Social media management) is ranked #26,073 worldwide in our August 2026 domain ranking, inside the top 100,000, down 433 places from #25,640 in July 2026.
- Its AI visibility score is 30 out of 100 (grade F), with no llms.txt, which is the single biggest gap.
- Its last technical audit scored 98/100, with "Add Alt Text to All Images" the highest-priority fix.
| Month | Rank | Move |
|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | #26,073 | ▼ 433 |
| July 2026 | #25,640 | ▼ 488 |
| June 2026 | #25,152 | — |
| May 2026 | #25,152 | ▼ 704 |
| April 2026 | #24,448 | ▼ 219 |
| March 2026 | #24,229 | ▲ 604 |
| February 2026 | #24,833 | — |
Our read on the site
The overall SEO health of buff.ly is strong, with an impressive performance score of 95/100 and an SEO score of 100/100. However, there are areas for improvement, particularly in on-page elements such as image alt attributes and the presence of broken links that need addressing to enhance user experience and search vis…
buff.ly Traffic and Visitor Engagement
Paid search ads bring 100% of it — more than its organic results do.
Monthly visits
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Latest estimate
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It starts building from the first scan
Organic visits
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No paid search detected
Organic vs paid
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We don't hold a month-by-month history for this domain yet.
The traffic dashboard builds one from the first scan onwards.
buff.ly Traffic by Country
A live-web estimate — not a measurement — puts Buffer, Inc.'s largest markets as United States (46%), United Kingdom (14%), Canada (10%) and Australia (8%).
Top customer markets
AI estimate · live webWe only measure visitor geography for domains whose analytics are connected to us. For everyone else this is read live from the web and shown as an estimate — never mixed in with the measured numbers.
- United States46%
- United Kingdom14%
- Canada10%
- Australia8%
- India6%
Who buys: Creators, marketers, small businesses, and social media teams.
Sources: redirectsniffer.com · urlert.com · scamminder.com
Where its backlinks come from
Measured. The country each linking site is hosted in — a real signal of which regions know this brand.
No backlink sample for this domain yet.
Backlink Analytics collects one on its first run.
buff.ly AI Visibility
On our AI visibility scale buff.ly earns 30 of 100 points, a grade F. It takes full marks for SEO health and Crawlability. The biggest gap is LLMS.txt, at 0 of 40 points (Missing), worth 40 points if closed. It also loses points on Company profile (0/25) and Structured data (0/5). Without an llms.txt the score cannot go above 60, because that file alone carries 40 of the 100 points.
Grade F
Scored from this domain's own data — llms.txt, profile completeness, technical health, crawlability and structured data.
Missing
0/8 core fields
100/100
robots ✓ · sitemap ✓
Not detected
Fix these first
- → Publish an llms.txt — the single biggest AI-visibility gain (+40).
- → Complete your company profile so AI answers about you stay accurate.
Buffer shows up reasonably well in AI answers about social media management because it is a well-known, long-running brand with a clear product category and distinctive features like transparency and scheduling tools.
buff.ly SEO Audit
The latest technical audit of buff.ly scored 98 out of 100 overall. All 3 sub-scores are 90 or above. The audit makes 12 recommendations in all, and 3 of the 4 listed first are rated high priority or critical.
Overall
Excellent
SEO
Excellent
Performance
Excellent
Accessibility
Excellent
Fix these first
- CriticalAdd Alt Text to All Images
- HighFix Broken Links
- MediumEnhance Meta Descriptions
- HighImplement Structured Data Markup
8 more recommendations, with the exact changes and the pages they apply to, are in the full report.
buff.ly Competitors and Alternatives
A live-web read points to Hootsuite, Sprout Social, Later and SocialBee. Outside its market, the domains ranked closest to it in our worldwide ranking are pilotonline.com, dataunitconverter.com, adobeprojectm.com and woah.org.
Some names read live from the web
buff.ly Company Profile
The business behind the domain — what it does, where it is, and who runs it.
Buffer provides social media management software that helps individuals, creators, small businesses, and teams schedule posts, analyze performance, and manage engagement across social platforms. The buff.ly domain is Buffer’s branded URL shortener used to share and track links from the Buffer platform.
- Industry
- Software / Social media management
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United States
- Founded
- 2010
- Employees
- 51-200
- Products
- Social media publishing, Post scheduling, Social media analytics, Engagement tools, Start Page / link-in-bio pages
- Competitors
- Hootsuite, Sprout Social, Later, SocialBee, Agorapulse
- Audience
- Creators, marketers, small businesses, and social media teams.
Live-web sources:redirectsniffer.comurlert.comscamminder.comapp.y.gy
buff.ly LLMS.txt
The file AI engines read to understand a business. This is what it currently tells them about this one.
There is no llms.txt on buff.ly. Without it, AI engines guess what this business does from whatever page they happen to crawl — which is how wrong prices, wrong locations and wrong product descriptions end up inside AI answers.
- → It is the single biggest AI-visibility gain available here (+40 points).
- → The generator writes it from the live site, in one pass.
- → You publish one file at the root; nothing else on the site changes.
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of 40 points
buff.ly Organic Keywords
The searches this domain already ranks for, and how much traffic they bring it.
Ranking keywords
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Visits they bring
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Estimated organic visits a month
Top ranking keywords
No ranked-keyword data cached for this domain yet.
Ranked Keywords pulls the full list on its first run.
What it ranks for
Topics this brand is known for
live webbuff.ly Backlink Analytics
Who vouches for this domain. Strong, varied links are still the clearest signal of authority — to search engines and to AI engines that cite sources.
We haven't run a backlink crawl for buff.ly yet, so there are no link counts to show. Backlink Analytics builds the profile on its first run and it appears here after that.
Sites already mentioning this brand
Found in a live web read — a mention is not the same as a link, but it is where links usually come from next.
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links on file
Companies ranked next to buff.ly
Neighbours of #26,073 in our worldwide ranking — each with its own report.
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