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Sites where “mdn web docs” is a top search keyword

One site on record lists “mdn web docs” among the searches that send it the most visitors, by traffic estimates. It is searched about 110K times a month on Google, worldwide (Google Ads, Sept 2026), at about $2.13 a click in search ads: a month of its searches would cost about $234.3K 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

110KGoogle monthly search volume−33% since Oct 2025

+17%Last 3 months vs 3 beforesteady

61/100Demand scoremoderate

48/100Keyword difficulty (US)possible

NavigationalSearch intentlooking for a site

$2.13Google Ads cost per clicktop-of-page bids $0.24–$2.08

12.6KThird-party estimated keyword demand−27% 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 “mdn web docs” fell 33% (165K to 110K) from Oct 2025 to Sept 2026; the last three months averaged 148.7K, 17% above the three before.
The listed sites' estimated visits from “mdn web docs” (19.1K a month) exceed its 12.6K searches: the estimates count visits from close searches too, so the listed sites take most of its traffic, not more than all of it.
From Aug 2026 to Sept 2026: developer.mozilla.org lost most (25.3K → 19.1K).
At $2.13 a click (Google Ads), the listed sites' 19.1K visits a month from “mdn web docs” would cost about $40.6K as search ads. That is what the traffic would cost to buy, not what it earns.
The two sources differ about 9 times for Sept 2026: Google Ads counts 110K searches, the traffic estimates 12.6K. Read each for its trend, not as an exact count.

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)	165K	165K	135K	135K	135K	135K	135K	110K	135K	201K	135K	110K
Third-party estimated keyword demand (right axis)	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	17.3K	12.6K

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: “mdn web docs” has the same figures as “mdn”, so these are the group's searches.

2Who gets the traffic

Visits from it by site, month by month

developer.mozilla.org

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
developer.mozilla.org	100%	19.1K	$40.6K	96	150K

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 States16%
India9%
Brazil5%
Germany5%
Russia5%
Other countries61%

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

Phones22%
Computers and tablets78%

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

48/100Keyword difficulty (US)possible

28/100Ranking easehard

DR 96First page, median Ahrefs DR

460Linking sites per top-ten pageaverage, US

On Google's page:People also askRelated searchesAI Overview

Google's first page, United States

#	Site	Page title	DR
1	bsky.app	MDN Web Docs (@developer.mozilla.org)	94
2	freecodecamp.org	MDN Web Docs — What It Is and How to Use It	89
3	blog.mozilla.org	The Future of MDN: A Focus on Web Docs - The Mozilla Blog	96
4	developer.mozilla.orglisted here	MDN Web Docs - Mozilla	96
5	developer.mozilla.orglisted here	MDN Web Docs	96
6	x.com	MDN Web Docs (@MozDevNet) / X	97
7	developer.mozilla.orglisted here	Window - Web APIs - MDN Web Docs - Mozilla	96
8	reddit.com	Is MDN web docs good? : r/learnjavascript	95
9	digital-skills-jobs.europa.eu	MDN Web Docs - Digital Skills and Jobs Platform	97

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

Keyword difficulty is 48 of 100 for US results: possible on the vendor's scale.
mozilla.org holds 4 of Google's top 9 results for “mdn web docs”: Google treats it as a search for that site.
1 of the sites listed here is in Google's US top 9: developer.mozilla.org (#4, #5, #7).
The first page's median Ahrefs DR is 96; the lowest-rated result, freecodecamp.org at #2, has DR 89.
The top ten pages have about 460 linking sites each on average (US results, third-party link index).
Google shows an AI Overview for “mdn web docs”, citing 9 sites, developer.mozilla.org among them: it sits above the results and takes clicks from them.

4Intent and related searches

Navigational: looking for a site · also informational
The searcher's goal, as a third-party keyword database classifies it (US).

Google's related searches

MDN web Docs JavaScript
MDN Web Docs HTTP
MDN web Docs HTML
MDN web Docs link
MDN web Docs CSS
MDN Web Docs download
MDN Web docs animation
MDN web docs React

Keywords the same sites get visits from

mdn 1 of these sites · 2 sites in all
html 1 of these sites · 1 site in all
javascript 1 of these sites · 1 site in all
p 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

61/100 · Demand score, moderate

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

Searches	81	110K a month · weight 40%
Year	35	−33% since Oct 2025 · weight 20%
Momentum	67	last 3 months +17% on the 3 before · weight 20%
Commercial	43	$2.13 a click (Google Ads) · weight 20%

28/100 · Ranking ease, hard

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

Keyword difficulty	52	48 of 100 (US) · weight 50%
First-page strength	4	median Ahrefs DR 96 · weight 50%
One site's results	56	mozilla.org holds 4 of 9; ease capped at 40 · weight 0%

What to do with it

Treat it as a brand search: Google answers “mdn web docs” 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: “MDN web Docs JavaScript”, “MDN Web Docs HTTP”, “MDN web Docs HTML”.
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
developer.mozilla.org	Audited	19.1K	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.