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Sites where “css tricks” is a top search keyword

One site on record lists “css tricks” among the searches that send it the most visitors, by traffic estimates. It is searched about 8,100 times a month on Google, worldwide (Google Ads, Sept 2026), at about $2.57 a click in search ads: a month of its searches would cost about $20.8K 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

8,100Google monthly search volume−33% since Oct 2025

−13%Last 3 months vs 3 beforesteady

48/100Demand scoremoderate

10/100Keyword difficulty (US)very easy

InformationalSearch intentwants to learn

$2.57Google Ads cost per clicktop-of-page bids $0.26–$2.83

3,450Third-party estimated keyword demand−18% vs Aug 2026

1Sites getting visits from itSept 2026

What the data says

Demand is down on the year, now levelling off: Google searches for “css tricks” fell 33% (12.1K to 8,100) from Oct 2025 to Sept 2026; the last three months averaged 7,100, 13% below the three before.
Searches peak in Oct 2025 (12.1K) and are lowest in Jun 2026 (6,600), a 1.8× swing within the year: time content to be indexed before the peak.
The listed site takes about 3,150 visits a month from “css tricks”, 91% of its 3,450 searches (traffic estimates). The other 9% goes to sites not on record here, or ends without a click.
From Aug 2026 to Sept 2026: css-tricks.com lost most (3,620 → 3,150).
At $2.57 a click (Google Ads), the listed sites' 3,150 visits a month from “css tricks” would cost about $8,095 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

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)	12.1K	12.1K	9,900	12.1K	12.1K	9,900	9,900	8,100	6,600	6,600	6,600	8,100
Third-party estimated keyword demand	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	4,220	3,450

Google monthly search volume: Google Ads, worldwide, read 1 Nov 2026. Third-party estimated keyword demand is a separate source, on the same axis: the two can differ.

2Who gets the traffic

Visits from it by site, month by month

css-tricks.com

Visits from this keyword (est.), stacked by site: a column is all the listed sites' visits from it that month.

Share of the visits, Sept 2026

Site	Share	Visits	As ads	DR	Linking sites
css-tricks.com	100%	3,150	$8,095	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

10/100Keyword difficulty (US)very easy

40/100Ranking easecontested

DR 95First page, median Ahrefs DR

576Linking sites per top-ten pageaverage, US

On Google's page:People also askVideosRelated searchesImagesAI Overview

Google's first page, United States

#	Site	Page title	DR
1	geoffgraham.me	My CSS-Tricks Top 10	40
2	reddit.com	Cool CSS tricks? : r/webdev	95
3	youtube.com	Top 10 CSS Tricks You Didn't Know!	99
4	reddit.com	What's the most useful CSS trick you learned way too late?	95
5	testmuai.com	11 Lifesaving HTML/CSS Tricks for Every Developer in 2026	80
6	facebook.com	What are your favorite CSS styling tricks?	100
7	syntacticsinc.com	10 CSS Tricks and Tips Every Developer Should Know	48
8	reddit.com	What are some HTML and CSS techniques, skills, know ...	95

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

Keyword difficulty is 10 of 100 for US results: very easy on the vendor's scale.
reddit.com holds 3 of Google's top 8 results for “css tricks”: Google treats it as a search for that site.
None of the 1 sites listed here is in Google's US top 8 for “css tricks”.
The first page's median Ahrefs DR is 95; the lowest-rated result, geoffgraham.me at #1, has DR 40.
The top ten pages have about 576 linking sites each on average (US results, third-party link index).
Google shows an AI Overview for “css tricks”, citing 4 sites, css-tricks.com among them: 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-tricks flexbox
Css tricks list
Css tricks reddit
CSS-tricks grid
Css tricks to learn
CSS-tricks position
CSS tricks examples
CSS-tricks snippets

Questions people ask

How to make things hidden in CSS?
Is CSS just C++?
Is it still worth learning HTML and CSS in 2026?
What are the 5 selectors in CSS?

Keywords the same sites get visits from

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

48/100 · Demand score, moderate

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

Searches	58	8,100 a month · weight 40%
Year	36	−33% since Oct 2025 · weight 20%
Momentum	37	last 3 months −13% on the 3 before · weight 20%
Commercial	51	$2.57 a click (Google Ads) · weight 20%

40/100 · Ranking ease, contested

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

Keyword difficulty	90	10 of 100 (US) · weight 50%
First-page strength	5	median Ahrefs DR 95 · weight 50%
One site's results	63	reddit.com holds 3 of 8; ease capped at 40 · weight 0%

What to do with it

Treat it as a brand search: Google answers “css tricks” with the brand's own pages, so a third-party page competes for what is left; Google's related searches show the angles people take: “CSS-tricks flexbox”, “Css tricks list”, “Css tricks reddit”.
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, Aug 2026 to 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	3,150	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.