Last updated: August 2026
Global rank: Worldwide · 2026-08
#170,016
AI visibility: Grade B
77
SEO health: Latest audit
96
Visits
165.3K
per month, estimated
Keywords
720
ranking in Google
Organic share
100%
165.3K organic visits
LLMS.txt
Published
147 lines AI engines can read
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maggieappleton.com Web Traffic Statistics
Key findings
- Maggie Appleton (Visual Storytelling) is ranked #170,016 worldwide in our August 2026 domain ranking, up 7,677 places from #177,693 in July 2026.
- It is estimated to receive about 165,300 visits a month from search, 100% of it organic, across 720 ranking keywords.
- Its AI visibility score is 77 out of 100 (grade B), with a published llms.txt of 147 lines.
- Its last technical audit scored 96/100, with "Implement Robots.txt and Sitemap.xml" the highest-priority fix.
| Month | Rank | Move |
|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | #170,016 | ▲ 7,677 |
| July 2026 | #177,693 | ▲ 4,595 |
| June 2026 | #182,288 | — |
| May 2026 | #182,288 | ▲ 738 |
| April 2026 | #183,026 | ▲ 9,627 |
| March 2026 | #192,653 | ▲ 899 |
| February 2026 | #193,552 | — |
What this company does
Maggie Appleton runs a vibrant digital garden that's all about visual storytelling at the crossroads of design, programming, and anthropology. Her site dives deep into how designers can borrow from anthropology to create more intuitive experiences, blending sketches, diagrams, and prose in ways that stick. It's not your standard blog—think evolving notes, interconnected ideas, and a garden that grows with every new e…
Our read on the site
The overall SEO health of maggieappleton.com is strong, with high performance and best practices scores. However, there are critical areas for improvement, particularly in technical SEO and content strategy, which could enhance visibility and user engagement.
maggieappleton.com Traffic and Visitor Engagement
maggieappleton.com draws an estimated 165,300 visits a month from search engines. Effectively all of it is organic — about 165,300 visits from unpaid results. Spread across 720 ranking keywords, that averages roughly 230 organic visits per keyword.
Monthly visits
165.3K
Latest estimate
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Organic visits
165.3K
100% of all traffic
Paid visits
0
No paid search detected
Organic vs paid
100%
0%
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maggieappleton.com AI Visibility
On our AI visibility scale maggieappleton.com earns 77 of 100 points, a grade B. It takes full marks for LLMS.txt. The biggest gap is Crawlability, at 0 of 10 points (robots ✗ · sitemap ✗), worth 10 points if closed. It also loses points on Company profile (19/25), Structured data (0/5) and SEO health (18/20).
Grade B
Scored from this domain's own data — llms.txt, profile completeness, technical health, crawlability and structured data.
Present
6/8 core fields
92/100
robots ✗ · sitemap ✗
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maggieappleton.com LLMS.txt
The llms.txt on maggieappleton.com runs to 147 lines (8,117 characters) across 12 sections, last generated in May 2026. It introduces the site as "Maggie Appleton". It tells AI engines the business works in Visual Storytelling, Design Education and Digital Anthropology. It describes 4 products, with prices such as Visual Essay Collection at Free, Digital Garden Notes at Free and Design Anthropology Guides at Free. Services it lists include Design Workshops, Speaking Engagements, Consulting and Mentoring. The audience it names is Designers, Developers, Creatives, aged 25-45 (Global). Technologies it mentions include HTTPS, Responsive Viewport, HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript. The keywords it claims start with "visual essays", "Maggie Appleton", "Maggie's essays" and "Maggie's digital garden".
Status
Published
AI engines can read it
Lines
147
In the file
Size
8.1K
Characters
Sections
12
Updated May 4, 2026
What the file says
# Maggie Appleton ## About Maggie Appleton's site is a digital garden packed with visual essays that make design, programming, and anthropology click in unexpected ways. She crafts these pieces like intricate diagrams mixed with narrative, helping readers grasp tough concepts through sight rather than slogging through walls of text. It's aimed at designers wanting deeper insights, devs curious about human-centered design, and thinkers bridging tech with culture. The magic lies in her visual storytelling—sketches that evolve, links that weave ideas together like a living ecosystem. No corporate gloss; it's raw, iterative, and deeply personal. Essays tackle programming for designers, anthropology's role in UX, and trends shaping our digital world. She serves a global crowd hungry for substance over hype, from indie creators to agency pros. Value prop? Time saved on dense reads, replaced by 'oh wow' visuals that linger. The garden grows publicly, inviting feedback that sparks new branches. Mobile tweaks ensure it shines on phones, crucial for on-the-go learners. Community buzz comes from shares in design Slack channels and Twitter threads. It's free, ad-free, building trust through quality alone. Topics range from design thinking hacks to interactive web tips. Anthropology threads human quirks into tech discussions brilliantly. Readers stick around for the evolving nature—old ess
Sections in the file
Areas of work
Keywords it claims
Technologies
Products it tells AI about
- Visual Essay CollectionFree
- Digital Garden NotesFree
- Design Anthropology GuidesFree
- Programming for Designers TutorialsFree
Services it tells AI about
- Design WorkshopsContact for pricing
- Speaking EngagementsContact for pricing
- ConsultingContact for pricing
- MentoringContact for pricing
Competitors it names
Audience it targets
Designers, Developers, Creatives · 25-45 · Global
Company type
Private
maggieappleton.com Organic Keywords
Google lists maggieappleton.com for about 720 keywords, which together bring an estimated 165,300 organic visits a month.
Ranking keywords
720
Found in Google for this domain
Visits they bring
165.3K
Estimated organic visits a month
Top ranking keywords
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What it ranks for
maggieappleton.com SEO Audit
The latest technical audit of maggieappleton.com scored 96 out of 100 overall. All 3 sub-scores are 90 or above. The audit makes 12 recommendations in all, and 2 of the 4 listed first are rated high priority or critical.
Overall
Excellent
SEO
Excellent
Performance
Excellent
Accessibility
Excellent
Fix these first
- CriticalImplement Robots.txt and Sitemap.xml
- HighExpand Content on Programming and Design
- MediumOptimize Title and Meta Description Length
- MediumEnhance Internal Linking Structure
8 more recommendations, with the exact changes and the pages they apply to, are in the full report.
maggieappleton.com Competitors and Alternatives
Maggie Appleton's company profile names https://www.smashingmagazine.com, https://www.creativebloq.com, https://www.sitepoint.com and https://www.tutsplus.com as competitors. Its own llms.txt adds https://www.codecademy.com and https://www.udacity.com. Outside its market, the domains ranked closest to it in our worldwide ranking are nordblanc.com, atletismorfea.es, itemmaster.com and dojo.tech.
maggieappleton.com Company Profile
Maggie Appleton runs a vibrant digital garden that's all about visual storytelling at the crossroads of design, programming, and anthropology. Her site dives deep into how designers can borrow from anthropology to create more intuitive experiences, blending sketches, diagrams, and prose in ways that stick. It's not your standard blog—think evolving notes, interconnected ideas, and a garden that grows with every new e…
Maggie Appleton was founded in 2020, about 6 years ago. Its workforce is listed as between 1 and 10 employees. It was founded by Maggie Appleton. Its profile files it under Visual Storytelling, with further tags for Design Education, Digital Anthropology and Content Creation. Total funding on record is Bootstrapped. Its tagline reads: "Visual essays unpacking design, tech, and the human side of making things".
- Sector
- Visual Storytelling
- Founded
- 2020
- Employees
- 1-10
- Revenue
- Not Disclosed
- Funding
- Bootstrapped
- Founders
- Maggie Appleton
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