This is not a listicle of guessed volumes. Every number below is a measurement from our keyword panel: year-over-year movement from Google Trends, and shelf conditions — result counts, ad share, prices — read live from Etsy search. The snapshot was frozen on August 16; each keyword links to its live data page, where the numbers keep updating daily.
These keywords are searched meaningfully more than in the same 90-day window a year ago — the honest way to measure a trend, because comparing against last quarter mostly measures the season. The spread is wide: minimalist wall art leads at +963% year-over-year on a shelf of 2.4 million results, while soy candle's +149% comes with a December peak still four months out. Each bar shows the climb; the line beneath it shows what you'd be walking into — how many results, how much of the shelf is ads, and what the top of the page charges.
These are the panel's keywords whose five-year seasonal peak lands between September and December — which makes August the listing window, not the waiting window. Each mini-chart is that keyword's year: the red bar is its peak month, the green outline is where you are standing right now. If the green box sits left of the red bar, the climb is still ahead of you. Soy candle is the textbook case: +149% year-over-year AND a December peak — a rising niche entering its strongest season.
Ad share tells you how much of page one is for sale. On these keywords, half or more of the visible top slots are paid placements — meaning organic space is scarcer than the result count suggests, and the sellers there are spending real money to hold position. High ad share is not a reason to avoid a keyword; it is a signal that the buyers there convert well enough to be worth paying for. It IS a reason to enter with a sharper listing, or a longer-tail variation.
The same live shelf reads give us the median price of the visible top results — the price band buyers actually see first. The spread across the panel is striking: website template tops sell around $7.40 while boho vintage turkish kilim tops command over $244. If your price sits far outside your keyword's band, you are either a bargain that looks suspicious or a premium that needs the photos to justify it — worth knowing before you list, not after.
The panel behind this post is the same one powering our keyword pages: Google Trends year-over-year comparisons for direction, five-year monthly averages for seasonality, and live reads of Etsy search for shelf conditions — refreshed continuously by the tools on this site. What you will not find here are absolute search volumes ("5,400 searches per month") — no public source provides them for Etsy, so every tool that prints them is estimating. We publish the measurements we can stand behind and link every keyword to its live page so you can watch the numbers move yourself.
This is the August snapshot of a growing panel — 143 keywords, of which 20 currently carry full trend measurements. Every search in the free keyword tool and every rank check adds keywords to the panel, and the daily refresh deepens the history behind each one. Next month's edition will read from a bigger, richer panel; the month after, bigger still. If a keyword you care about is missing, search it in the tool — that is literally how it joins the panel.
The panel behind this post is free to query: measured demand, seasonality with your position marked on it, and live shelf conditions for any keyword you sell against.