Data updated Oct 30, 2026
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Noun Project’s organic search traffic went from 1.2M to 1.2M visits in one month, mostly from the non-brand terms below.
How the growth happened
Monthly visit estimates · 2026-05 — 2026-09 · DR 88, flat
Sep 2026
Monthly visits split by channel share: Noun Project added 10.9K visits from Aug to Sep, with organic search contributing 100%.
| Channel | Last 3 months | Change barAug → Sep | Change | Share of change | Current share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Organic search | +17.9K | 164% | 53.4% ↑0.5pp | ||
| +10.1K | 92% | 1.3% ↑0.4pp | |||
| Organic social | +1.1K | 9.7% | 1.9% ↑0pp | ||
| 5 other channels | −14.6K | -134% | 42.3% ↓0.9pp |
What you can borrow
Noun Project’s acquisition moves across pages, search terms and AI referrals, each with its data source.
| Keyword | Traffic | CPC | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| noun projectNon-brand | 182.2K | $0.51 | 1 |
| the noun projectBrand | 74.2K | $0.30 | 2 |
| nounprojectNon-brand | 19.1K | $0.24 | 3 |
| thenounprojectBrand | 8.1K | $0.36 | 4 |
| iconsNon-brand | 7.9K | $0.73 | 5 |
Borrow: Most of its search traffic comes from non-brand terms (e.g. “noun project”, “nounproject”). Find the needs your product also serves and capture them with tool or landing pages.
We diff its public Sitemap daily. Bulk launches or removals will appear here and alert watchers.
14.6K visits from AI assistants (previous month 19.4K), 0.7% of all traffic.
Borrow: No need to follow yet; watch whether it scales next month.
Full growth history
Where did the +10.9K visits actually come from?
Noun Project grew 0.5% in Sep with almost no paid ads. Unlock the launch posts, community threads and new backlinks behind the spike, plus a launch checklist you can copy.
New linking websites (+515.1%)
Observed eventWhere it launched and who talked about it
Visible after unlockingWhere the new backlinks came from
Visible after unlockingA launch sequence you can copy
Visible after unlockingSame-market benchmark
Sep 2026 · Visual Expression
Each product uses its latest observed month; different months are not a same-period ranking.
Know the next time Noun Project ships pages in bulk
We diff its Sitemap, backlinks and traffic daily and alert you only on real changes.
Method: visits and channel shares are third-party monthly estimates; channel change = monthly visits × channel share, month over month; site actions and traffic are shown by timing only, not as cause and effect.
