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Sites where “css flex” is a top search keyword

One site on record lists “css flex” among the searches that send it the most visitors, by traffic estimates. It is searched about 22.2K times a month on Google, worldwide (Google Ads, Sept 2026), at about $7.93 a click in search ads: a month of its searches would cost about $176K as search ads. Each site checked on the backlink value checker adds its top five search keywords, so this list grows as sites are checked.

Keyword intelligence

22.2KGoogle monthly search volume−55% since Oct 2025

−29%Last 3 months vs 3 beforefalling

55/100Demand scoremoderate

47/100Keyword difficulty (US)possible

InformationalSearch intentwants to learn

$7.93Google Ads cost per clicktop-of-page bids $0.26–$12.50

10.3KThird-party estimated keyword demandSept 2026

1Sites getting visits from itSept 2026

What the data says

Demand is falling: Google searches for “css flex” fell 55% (49.5K to 22.2K) from Oct 2025 to Sept 2026; the last three months averaged 22.5K, 29% below the three before.
The listed site takes about 2,750 visits a month from “css flex”, 27% of its 10.3K searches (traffic estimates). The other 73% goes to sites not on record here, or ends without a click.
At $7.93 a click (Google Ads), the listed sites' 2,750 visits a month from “css flex” would cost about $21.8K as search ads. That is what the traffic would cost to buy, not what it earns.

1Demand

Search demand, month by month

Google monthly search volume (Google Ads, worldwide)Third-party estimated keyword demand (right axis)

Every month's figures

	Oct 2025	Nov 2025	Dec 2025	Jan 2026	Feb 2026	Mar 2026	Apr 2026	May 2026	Jun 2026	Jul 2026	Aug 2026	Sept 2026
Google monthly search volume (Google Ads, worldwide)	49.5K	40.5K	33.1K	40.5K	33.1K	60.5K	40.5K	27.1K	27.1K	27.1K	18.1K	22.2K
Third-party estimated keyword demand (right axis)	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	10.3K

Google monthly search volume: Google Ads, worldwide, read 1 Nov 2026. Third-party estimated keyword demand is a separate source, many times apart in size, so it has its own axis at the right: read the two lines for their trends. Google Ads counts close spellings as one keyword: “css flex” has the same figures as “css flexbox”, so these are the group's searches.

2Who gets the traffic

Share of the visits, Sept 2026

Site	Share	Visits	As ads	DR	Linking sites
css-tricks.com	100%	2,750	$21.8K	90	32.1K

Each site's latest estimate of its visits from this keyword; “As ads”: those visits at its cost per click, what they would cost to buy; DR: Ahrefs Domain Rating; linking sites: sites linking to it (third-party link index).

Where these sites' visitors are

United States25%
India7%
United Kingdom6%
Germany5%
Canada4%
Other countries53%

The listed sites' own visitors by country (all their traffic), weighted by each site's visits from this keyword: their audience, not where the keyword is searched.

Phones and computers

Phones20%
Computers and tablets80%

Page loads of the listed sites by Chrome users (Chrome UX Report), weighted by each site's visits from this keyword: a site's device mix, not the keyword's. No source gives a keyword's device split.

3Ranking competition

47/100Keyword difficulty (US)possible

32/100Ranking easehard

DR 89First page, median Ahrefs DR

952Linking sites per top-ten pageaverage, US

On Google's page:People also askPeople also searchRelated searchesKnowledge panelAI Overview

Google's first page, United States

#	Site	Page title	DR
1	youtube.com	Flexbox CSS In 20 Minutes	99
2	freecodecamp.org	Complete Guide to Flexible Containers and Flex Items	89
3	mimo.org	CSS Flexbox: Syntax, Usage, and Examples	66
4	elementor.com	CSS Flex Property & Flexbox Layout: 2026 Complete Guide	92
5	primer.style	Flexbox	77
6	codecademy.com	Learn Intermediate CSS: Layout with Flexbox Cheatsheet	87
7	dev.to	A Guide to CSS Flexbox	91

Google's results for “css flex” in the United States, in English, read 1 Nov 2026. DR: Ahrefs Domain Rating; “—”: Ahrefs gives no rating.

Keyword difficulty is 47 of 100 for US results: possible on the vendor's scale.
None of the 1 sites listed here is in Google's US top 7 for “css flex”.
The first page's median Ahrefs DR is 89; the lowest-rated result, mimo.org at #3, has DR 66.
The top ten pages have about 952 linking sites each on average (US results, third-party link index).
Google shows an AI Overview for “css flex”, citing 9 sites: it sits above the results and takes clicks from them.

4Intent and related searches

Informational: wants to learn
The searcher's goal, as a third-party keyword database classifies it (US).

Google's related searches

Css flex box
Css flex example
Css flex w3schools
CSS flex column
CSS grid
Css flexbox in 10 minutes
Css flex tutorial
Flexbox Froggy

Questions people ask

What are all the properties of a flexbox in CSS?
What does flex 2 mean?
How do I justify-content in CSS?
What is the difference between flex basis and width?

Keywords the same sites get visits from

css flexbox 1 of these sites · 1 site in all
css grid 1 of these sites · 1 site in all
css tricks 1 of these sites · 1 site in all
flexbox 1 of these sites · 1 site in all

Keywords the listed sites also get visits from, the most shared first: linked by the same sites' traffic, not by meaning.

5Opportunity

55/100 · Demand score, moderate

How much searching there is and what advertisers pay for it.

Searches	67	22.2K a month · weight 40%
Year	21	−55% since Oct 2025 · weight 20%
Momentum	21	last 3 months −29% on the 3 before · weight 20%
Commercial	100	$7.93 a click (Google Ads) · weight 20%

32/100 · Ranking ease, hard

How open Google's first page is: 100 minus its difficulty and strength.

Keyword difficulty	53	47 of 100 (US) · weight 50%
First-page strength	11	median Ahrefs DR 89 · weight 50%

What to do with it

A hard first page (ease 32) for moderate demand (55): compare your site's strength with the first page's median Ahrefs DR before committing.
Google answers part of it in an AI Overview: the pages it cites get a link above the results.

A business score needs your own figures (conversion, deal value) and is not made here. Scores are fixed formulas over the figures shown; they are not Google's.

6Sources

Google monthly search volume, Google Ads cost per click, bids and paid competition: Google Ads, worldwide, read 1 Nov 2026.
Third-party estimated keyword demand, cost per click and each site's visits (est.): third-party traffic estimates, Sept 2026.
Keyword difficulty, intent, SERP features, top-ten links: a third-party keyword database, United States, read 1 Nov 2026.
Google's first page, AI Overview, related searches: Google search, United States, read 1 Nov 2026.
DR: Ahrefs Domain Rating. Linking sites: a third-party link index.
Phones and computers: Chrome UX Report.

Tiles, findings, scores and actions are worked out from the figures on this page by fixed rules.

Site	Report	Visits (est.)	Month
css-tricks.com	Valued	2,750	Sept 2026

Listed A–Z. A top search keyword is one of the searches that bring a site the most visitors, by estimate. It is not a position in Google, and the order here is not a ranking. Visits (est.): the traffic estimate's own figure for the keyword on that site, which behaves like visits a month, not an amount of money (2026-09-29: it had been shown in dollars). Ad value is what advertisers pay for the keyword — its searches × cost per click — not how hard it is to rank for. This page is kept out of search results until 15 sites share the keyword.

Searches, cost per click and ad value above: Google Ads, worldwide. Sites and their visits: third-party traffic estimates, Sept 2026. The traffic estimates' own searches figure for the keyword is in the section below; the two sources often differ several times over.