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Sites where “smashing magazine” is a top search keyword

One site on record lists “smashing magazine” among the searches that send it the most visitors, by traffic estimates. It is searched about 4,400 times a month on Google, worldwide (Google Ads, Sept 2026). Each site checked on the backlink value checker adds its top five search keywords, so this list grows as sites are checked.

Keyword intelligence

4,400Google monthly search volume−46% since Oct 2025

−7%Last 3 months vs 3 beforesteady

35/100Demand scoreweak

42/100Keyword difficulty (US)possible

InformationalSearch intentwants to learn

4,350Third-party estimated keyword demand−34% vs Aug 2026

1Sites getting visits from itSept 2026

LowPaid competition (Google Ads)0 of 100 advertisers' index

What the data says

Demand is down on the year, now levelling off: Google searches for “smashing magazine” fell 46% (8,100 to 4,400) from Oct 2025 to Sept 2026.
The listed sites' estimated visits from “smashing magazine” (8,470 a month) exceed its 4,350 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: smashingmagazine.com lost most (11.8K → 8,470).
No advertiser pays for “smashing magazine” (cost per click $0 in both sources): its traffic is worth audience, not ad money.

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)	8,100	6,600	5,400	6,600	5,400	6,600	5,400	4,400	4,400	4,400	4,400	4,400
Third-party estimated keyword demand	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	6,560	4,350

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

smashingmagazine.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	DR	Linking sites
smashingmagazine.com	100%	8,470	90	60K

Each site's latest estimate of its visits from this keyword; DR: Ahrefs Domain Rating; linking sites: sites linking to it (third-party link index).

Where these sites' visitors are

United States33%
Canada5%
Germany5%
United Kingdom4%
Mexico4%
Other countries49%

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

Phones25%
Computers and tablets75%

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

42/100Keyword difficulty (US)possible

30/100Ranking easehard

DR 98First page, median Ahrefs DR

626Linking sites per top-ten pageaverage, US

On Google's page:People also askRelated searchesImagesAI Overview

Google's first page, United States

#	Site	Page title	DR
1	smashingmagazine.comlisted here	Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers	90
2	facebook.com	Smashing Magazine (@smashmag)	100
3	linkedin.com	Smashing Magazine	99
4	x.com	Smashing Magazine 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 (@smashingmag) / ...	97
5	vimeo.com	Smashing Magazine	96
6	youtube.com	Smashing Magazine	99

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

Keyword difficulty is 42 of 100 for US results: possible on the vendor's scale.
1 of the sites listed here is in Google's US top 6: smashingmagazine.com (#1).
The first page's median Ahrefs DR is 98; the lowest-rated result, smashingmagazine.com at #1, has DR 90.
The top ten pages have about 626 linking sites each on average (US results, third-party link index).
Google shows an AI Overview for “smashing magazine”, citing 6 sites, smashingmagazine.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

Smashing Magazine write for us
Smashing magazine wallpaper
Smashing magazine UX
Smashing magazine courses
Smashing magazine calendar
Smashing magazine conference
Smashing magazine blog
Smashing magazine june 2026

Questions people ask

What is Smashing magazine?
How much does Smashing magazine pay?
What is the best graphic design magazine?
What are the best websites for design news?

Keywords the same sites get visits from

color theory 1 of these sites · 1 site in all
manim 1 of these sites · 1 site in all
smashing 1 of these sites · 1 site in all
smashing magazine wallpaper 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

35/100 · Demand score, weak

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

Searches	53	4,400 a month · weight 40%
Year	28	−46% since Oct 2025 · weight 20%
Momentum	43	last 3 months −7% on the 3 before · weight 20%
Commercial	0	$0.00 a click · weight 20%

30/100 · Ranking ease, hard

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

Keyword difficulty	58	42 of 100 (US) · weight 50%
First-page strength	2	median Ahrefs DR 98 · weight 50%

What to do with it

A hard first page (ease 30) for weak demand (35): 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, 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
smashingmagazine.com	Valued	8,470	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). 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.