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The official community forum for the open-source painting software Krita: users post artwork, download and share brushes and themes, ask for help and join monthly painting challenges.
In November 201One-line growth story, compiled by us from public sources; speculation is marked separately below.
Checkout visits over time
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1. Productwhat it sells, to whom, and how it charges
- Product
- The official community forum for the open-source painting software Krita: users post artwork, download and share brushes and themes, ask for help and join monthly painting challenges.
- Users
- Digital painting hobbyists and illustrators who use Krita, and Krita developers
- Positioning
- Krita's one central community, where brush/resource sharing is exclusive content
- Pricing
- Free community forum, no charge Free tier: yes Source: Homepage
- Team
- small team
- Sharing mechanics
- group invites, shareable results Post your latest Krita artworks here; Monthly art contests and other drawing challenges will be held in this category
- Price source
- krita-artists.org
“Post your latest Krita artworks here; Monthly art contests and other drawing challenges will be held in this category”Quote from the site
2. Channelswhere new users come from and what the traffic looks like
New-user source: Viral (Built-in sharing). Search 62.1%, direct 31.7%, referral 3.4%; search terms are mostly resource terms that include the brand name, such as krita brushes, krita brush, krita themes (brand keywords 93.8%), i.e. Krita users looking for resources get led to the forum. Referrals come from github.com and bsky.app, social is Reddit, YouTube and X; returning users come back through posting and challenge events.
Last month's traffic sources
Semrush source breakdown (desktop)
Five-class attribution
| Attributable new users, last month | Share |
|---|---|
| 3% | |
| 94% | |
| Other | 3% |
Direct + brand search 94%. Direct and brand search count as viral only when the site shows sharing mechanics; the largest share wins, under 5% means Other.
Countries
| Country | Share of visits |
|---|---|
| United States | 27.59% |
| Brazil | 4.8% |
| Russia | 3.96% |
| United Kingdom | 3.32% |
| Indonesia | 2.93% |
Countries (Semrush): United States 38.6%, Brazil 8.6%, Russian Federation 5.1%, Canada 3.2%, Bangladesh 3.1%
Language
English
Social sources
Reddit, YouTube, X (Twitter)
AI assistants
| Source | Share |
|---|---|
| ChatGPT | 0.16 |
| Claude | 0.02 |
AI referrals (Semrush): ChatGPT 791 (0.16%), Claude 104 (0.02%)
Keywords
7.3K keywords · brand ~94% · organic 100% / paid 0%
| Similarweb top 5 keywords |
|---|
| krita brushes |
| krita brush |
| krita |
| krita themes |
| krita brushes download |
Referring sites
12 referring sites
| Site | Share of referrals |
|---|---|
| github.com | 2.03% |
| bsky.app | 1.93% |
| nortonsafesearch.com | 1.34% |
Referrer categories
| Category | Share of referrals |
|---|---|
| Programming and Developer Software | 60.96% |
| Search Engines | 3.5% |
| Education | 2.18% |
| News & Media Publishers | 1.93% |
| Banking Credit and Lending | 1.34% |
Site metrics (Similarweb, last month)
- Visits, last 3 months
- 713.3K (3 months)
- Visits MoM
- -5.89%
- Country rank
- United States #48626
- Category rank
- Programming and Developer Software #963
- Bounce rate
- 38.69%
- Pages / visit
- 3.98
- Visit duration
- 00:02:06
- Industry
- Programming and Developer Software
- Top 3 channels
- Organic Search › Direct › Referrals (top channel 62.75%)
- Semrush monthly visits
- 3 months ago 610,906 · 2 months ago 617,638 · Last month 503,662 Semrush scale, ~3–4× Similarweb
- Semrush organic / paid search visits
- 315,246 / 0
- Semrush source breakdown (desktop)
- google.com · Google organic 54.6%, Direct 28.8%, krita.org 3.1%, reddit.com 2.5%, duckduckgo.com 1.9%
3. Growth pathhow the first users arrived and what kept it growing
Classification
Basics
Timeline
Growth loop
Revenue and scale clues
Confidence and gaps
Other sites that started via “Existing audience”
Similar sitessame category, also growing via Viral
FAQ
How many checkout visits does Krita-artists get per month?
About 41,307 last month (Similarweb estimate), #53 of 606; the month before was 58,959. Opening checkout is not paying, so this is not revenue.
Where do Krita-artists's new users come from?
New-user source: Viral (Built-in sharing). The site has invite or share mechanics, and direct plus brand search is the largest source Search 62.1%, direct 31.7%, referral 3.4%; search terms are mostly resource terms that include the brand name, such as krita brushes, krita brush, krita themes (brand keywords 93.8%), i.e. Krita users looking for resources get led to the forum. Referrals come from github.com and bsky.app, social is Reddit, YouTube and X; returning users come back through posting and challenge events.
How much does Krita-artists cost?
Free community forum, no charge
Dossier confidence: medium. Parts 1 and 2 come from reading the site and Similarweb data; part 3 from public reporting, founder posts, Wayback snapshots, WHOIS and similar, with speculation marked.
The number: checkout visits is Similarweb's estimate of visits from the site to a checkout payment page; opening checkout is not paying, so this is not revenue. Small sites land on fixed buckets.
Data through last month. Page updated 2026-10-26.