Newman

Blogroll Fun uses a subscription to a free service that allows it to easily determine the last update time and the last post for all of the links in your blogroll without slowing down the loading time of your blog. It allows you to choose if you want to display this information in your blogroll or not. It simply replaces the standard wordpress link widget while providing additional functionality.
Blogroll Fun can be compared to the feed reading blogroll. However, unlike feed reading blogroll the last post information is sent to your blog and stored with your blogroll. It does not rely on your visitors to load this information, or any javascript tricks.
Settings can be updated by going to manage, widgets, then edit on the links widget.
Currently, no ads are being delivered through this plugin.

Shea Bunge

Creates three shortcodes – [bookmarks], [links] and [blogroll] – that will generate an unordered list of your WordPress links. 
Preforms the same function as <code>wp_list_bookmarks()</code>.
You can any of the shortcodes within a post, page, media, text widget, etc. 
This makes it much more flexible then using the default Links page template that may be included in your theme as you can add other content surrounding the list, also when you change themes there is no need to edit the page.
You can customize the output of the list by using the same arguments that are accepted by the <a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_list_bookmarks/" rel="nofollow ugc">wp_list_bookmarks()</a> function. 
Example: <code>[bookmarks show_images=0 show_ratings=1 show_name=1 ]</code>
<a href="https://github.com/sheabunge/bookmarks-shortcode" rel="nofollow ugc">Contribute at GitHub</a>
<h3>Update Notice</h3>
<h4>2.2</h4>
Improved default bookmarks markup

Bookmarks Shortcode

Creates shortcodes that will generate an unordered list of your WordPress links (bookmarks).

Blogroll Fun – Show Last Post and Last Update Time vs Bookmarks Shortcode