--- title: "1 Site Where mdn web docs Is a Top Search Keyword" url: https://mxverify.uk/keywords/mdn-web-docs description: "1 site on mxverify lists “mdn web docs” among the searches that send it the most visitors, by traffic estimates: developer.mozilla.org." site: mxverify generated: 2026-11-01T14:25:53.554Z --- # 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](https://mxverify.uk/backlink-value) adds its top five search keywords, so this list grows as sites are checked. ## Keyword intelligence - **110K** Google monthly search volume −33% since Oct 2025 - **+17%** Last 3 months vs 3 before steady - **61/100** Demand score moderate - **48/100** Keyword difficulty (US) possible - **Navigational** Search intent looking for a site - **$2.13** Google Ads cost per click top-of-page bids $0.24–$2.08 - **12.6K** Third-party estimated keyword demand −27% vs Aug 2026 - **1** Sites getting visits from it Sept 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) Search demand, month by month. Google monthly search volume (Google Ads, worldwide): Oct 2025 165K, Nov 2025 165K, Dec 2025 135K, Jan 2026 135K, Feb 2026 135K, Mar 2026 135K, Apr 2026 135K, May 2026 110K, Jun 2026 135K, Jul 2026 201K, Aug 2026 135K, Sept 2026 110K; Third-party estimated keyword demand (right axis): Aug 2026 17.3K, Sept 2026 12.6K 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 the keyword by site, month by month. Aug 2026: developer.mozilla.org 25.3K; total 25.3K. Sept 2026: developer.mozilla.org 19.1K; total 19.1K 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** 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 States 16% - India 9% - Brazil 5% - Germany 5% - Russia 5% - Other countries 61% 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** - Phones 22% - Computers and tablets 78% 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 - **48/100** Keyword difficulty (US) possible - **28/100** Ranking ease hard - **DR 96** First page, median Ahrefs DR - **460** Linking sites per top-ten page average, US On Google's page: People also ask Related searches AI 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.org](https://mxverify.uk/publications/developer.mozilla.org) listed here | MDN Web Docs - Mozilla | 96 | | 5 | [developer.mozilla.org](https://mxverify.uk/publications/developer.mozilla.org) listed here | MDN Web Docs | 96 | | 6 | x.com | MDN Web Docs (@MozDevNet) / X | 97 | | 7 | [developer.mozilla.org](https://mxverify.uk/publications/developer.mozilla.org) listed 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](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/mdn) 1 of these sites · 2 sites in all - [html](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/html) 1 of these sites · 1 site in all - [javascript](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/javascript) 1 of these sites · 1 site in all - [p](https://mxverify.uk/keywords/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](https://mxverify.uk/publications/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. --- Source: mxverify, "1 Site Where mdn web docs Is a Top Search Keyword", https://mxverify.uk/keywords/mdn-web-docs (retrieved 2026-11-01). How every figure is worked out: https://mxverify.uk/methodology