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Sites where “how long to beat” is a top search keyword

One site on record lists “how long to beat” among the searches that send it the most visitors, by traffic estimates. It is searched about 301K times a month on Google, worldwide (Google Ads, Sept 2026), at about $0.52 a click in search ads: a month of its searches would cost about $156.5K 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

301KGoogle monthly search volumeno change since Oct 2025

+6%Last 3 months vs 3 beforesteady

59/100Demand scoremoderate

19/100Keyword difficulty (US)easy

InformationalSearch intentwants to learn

$0.52Google Ads cost per clicktop-of-page bids $0.30–$0.35

273.9KThird-party estimated keyword demandSept 2026

1Sites getting visits from itSept 2026

What the data says

Demand is steady: Google searches for “how long to beat” held steady at about 301K from Oct 2025 to Sept 2026.

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)	301K	246K	368K	301K	301K	301K	246K	301K	301K	301K	301K	301K
Third-party estimated keyword demand	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	273.9K

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.

3Ranking competition

19/100Keyword difficulty (US)easy

40/100Ranking easecontested

DR 80First page, median Ahrefs DR

272Linking sites per top-ten pageaverage, US

On Google's page:PerspectivesRelated searchesAI Overview

Google's first page, United States

#	Site	Page title	DR
1	steamcommunity.com	How Long To Beat :: Suggestions / Ideas	92
2	store.steampowered.com	Steam Curator: How Long To Beat	93
3	howlongtobeat.com	Influential Games (Chronological) \| HowLongToBeat	74
4	howlongtobeat.com	How many days to beat?? I have the math, for me at least	74
5	howlongtobeat.com	Playing Games - howlonggames's Playthroughs	74
6	thetoddhunter.wordpress.com	How accurate is – How Long To Beat? - The Toddhunter Report	95
7	gigazine.net	'HowLongToBeat.com' is a website that lets you check the ...	80
8	play.google.com	Beat It:How Long to Beat Games	100
9	howlongtobeat.com	pro5's Reviews	74

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

Keyword difficulty is 19 of 100 for US results: easy on the vendor's scale.
howlongtobeat.com holds 4 of Google's top 9 results for “how long to beat”: Google treats it as a search for that site.
None of the 1 sites listed here is in Google's US top 9 for “how long to beat”.
The first page's median Ahrefs DR is 80; the lowest-rated result, howlongtobeat.com at #3, has DR 74.
The top ten pages have about 272 linking sites each on average (US results, third-party link index).
Google shows an AI Overview for “how long to beat”, citing 4 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

How long to beat app
Metacritic
Steam
CD keys

Keywords the same sites get visits from

ryze ai 1 of these sites · 2 sites in all
howlongtobeat 1 of these sites · 1 site in all
twitterwebviewer 1 of these sites · 1 site in all
zapic 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

59/100 · Demand score, moderate

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

Searches	90	301K a month · weight 40%
Year	50	+0% since Oct 2025 · weight 20%
Momentum	56	last 3 months +6% on the 3 before · weight 20%
Commercial	10	$0.52 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	81	19 of 100 (US) · weight 50%
First-page strength	20	median Ahrefs DR 80 · weight 50%
One site's results	56	howlongtobeat.com holds 4 of 9; ease capped at 40 · weight 0%

What to do with it

Treat it as a brand search: Google answers “how long to beat” 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: “How long to beat app”, “Metacritic”, “Steam”.
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.

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

Site	Report	Visits (est.)	Month
peerpush.net	Valued	0	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.