Fitness equipment industry: online market analysis

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SEO & SEA Google Market Analysis of the fitness equipment

For the fitness equipment industry, Aspen Digital’s data team conducted an extensive analysis over a period of three months, comparing the search results. This applies to both the organic search results and the paid text advertisements.

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The top 5 players:

#	Organic October	Organic January	SEA
1	Decathlon.nl	Decathlon.nl	Helisports.nl
2	Gorillasports.nl	Bol.com	Decathlon.nl
3	Bol.com	Gorillasports.nl	Bol.com
4	Fitness-seller.nl	Fitness-seller.nl	Temu.com
5	Fitwinkel.nl	Betersport.nl	Fitwinkel.nl

• The number 1 Decathlon.nl (also a strong SEA presence) ranked first in this comparison in both October and January, and has therefore remained stable;
• Bol.com (also in the SEA top 5) has risen from position 3 to second place;
• Gorillasports.nl has fallen from position 2 to position 3 in January;
• Number 4 from October Fitness-seller.nl is still in position 4;
• Betersport.nl has newly entered the top 5 in fifth place.

The analysis and charts are based on 403 key search terms within the fitness equipment industry, which together represent an average monthly search volume of 507.570 represent.

How was the market analysed?

Google organic in October

Here you can see the 25 websites that are most present in this industry based on the organic results in Google on 13-10-2025 Only the top 20 results per search term were used to provide as accurate a picture as possible and identify parties actively working to become visible within this keyword theme.

The ideal position is shown at the top right of the graph: this means that your website ranks in the top 20 and has achieved a good average position.

Google organic in January

This is the SEO market 3 months later compared with the first measurement. By analysing the situation in January, you can see the medium-term SEO trend within your industry. Think of emerging parties that are increasingly gaining market share, or established names that are becoming even more firmly established in the market.

More importantly, you can of course also see how your organic presence and average position have developed compared with your competitors.

To make comparison easier and give you a clear overview, a percentage graph has also been added. This allows you to see at één oogopslag how the positions of different parties in your industry have shifted. Whether it concerns the growth of new players, the consolidation of established names or a decline, the graph clearly shows the trend for each website.

Changes in the organic market in 3 months

Here too, the top right is the most favourable: the number of search terms in the top 20 has increased, along with a better average position. The bottom left is the least favourable, because there you have fewer search terms in the top 20 as well as a worse position.

In this graph, a positive percentage change in position means that your rankings have improved. Put simply: if you rise from position 2 to position 1 this means an improvement of +50%.

Looking at the period (13-10-2025 and 13-01-2026) these are our findings:

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Ad presence

In addition to analysing the organic Google search results, the associated paid text ads were also examined closely. As you of course know, the first organic position in Google is the highest achievable, but unfortunately that does not necessarily mean that your website will immediately be visible to the searcher.

For that reason, it is interesting to examine, for the same search terms, over the entire 3 month period which parties are also actively using SEA. This gives you an even more concrete picture of your visibility in Google for the fitness equipment industry, and enables you to see even more clearly who your biggest competitors are.

These are the top 5 advertisers over the period 13-10-2025 to 13-01-2026:

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Fitness equipment industry overview

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Brief explanation of the table:

• The websites shown are the most prominent players in the market, based on the organic measurements of 13-10-2025 and 13-01-2026, or due to a strong SEA presence;
• The starting and ending position is the average organic position of the two daily measurements;
• Presence % is the percentage of organic search terms in the top 20 of the two daily measurements;
• The SEA position and presence are based on the entire 3 months and shows the average SEA position and total presence expressed as a percentage.

Website	Starting position	Ending position	Presence-% start	Presence-% end	SEA position	Presence-%
Aj-sports.nl	10.24	10.12	15.4%	15.9%	1.65	1.3%
Amazon.nl	13.02	13.18	32%	37.7%	2.09	26.2%
Atletica.de	11.53	8.6	10.9%	10.7%	0	0%
Betersport.nl	8.44	8.36	42.9%	45.4%	1.88	10.5%
Bol.com	6.08	5.27	74.7%	76.4%	1.46	53.9%
Decathlon.nl	4.4	4.12	78.9%	83.4%	1.9	55.5%
Fitness-seller.nl	6.95	7.01	57.1%	55.8%	1.26	7.3%
Fitness24.nl	8.71	10.6	28.8%	30.8%	1.7	0.8%
Fitnessapparaat.nl	11.06	11.3	25.6%	24.6%	1.5	0.5%
Fitnessdelivery.nl	8.69	9.61	42.9%	44.2%	2.17	13.4%
Fitnesskoerier.nl	7.69	7.99	37.2%	40%	0	0%
Fitshop.nl	10.08	10.36	34.5%	35.7%	2.4	26.4%
Fitwinkel.nl	9.15	10.24	49.4%	54.6%	2.19	32.5%
Gorillasports.nl	2.85	3.1	41.9%	40.9%	2.05	12.6%
Lifemaxx.com	6.31	7.34	20.6%	22.8%	0	0%
Marktplaats.nl	13.76	13.6	36.5%	45.9%	2.33	2.4%
Matchusports.nl	10.7	13.05	15.9%	19.1%	0	0%
Muscle-power.nl	8.93	8.42	24.6%	27.8%	2.09	5.5%
Nrgfitness.nl	11.38	12.79	22.8%	23.6%	0	0%
Padisport.nl	8.38	8.88	13.6%	15.6%	1.76	4.2%
Sport-thieme.nl	11.73	9.73	9.4%	11.9%	0	0%
Sportbay.nl	8.84	11.42	36%	30.8%	0	0%
Technogym.com	11.5	9.97	17.9%	16.6%	1.95	1.6%
Tunturi.com	11.98	8.95	28.5%	33%	0	0%
Victormooren.nl	11.27	10.53	17.9%	14.1%	0	0%

Map your visibility by theme

The online fitness equipment sector has been thoroughly researched. By analysing how often your brand and those of your competitors appear in the search results (both paid and organic), you now have a picture of your position in the search engine market.

Maybe you are performing better than you thought, meeting your expectations, or have discovered that there is still plenty of room for growth.

Your market consists of various themes, each with unique challenges and opportunities, where both your organic and paid visibility can strongly vary.

Would you like to dig even deeper?

Discover your Google presence and positions based on the themes/categories that are important to your website. This gives you an even clearer picture of the impact of your current search engine marketing efforts and where your online growth and opportunities lie.

How can we help you with this?

Every day, we create HTML snapshots of the Google search results page for the search terms that are relevant to you and save these as well.

This allows us not only to analyse keywords on a large scale, but also to take an in-depth look at the text ads, the titles of the organic results, video results, Google Shopping and other important elements present on the search results page.

This gives you a 360-degree overview of your online visibility and that of your competitors. With these detailed insights, you can take targeted action to strengthen your position in the industry and generate more revenue and return from your visibility potential!

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