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COMPETITOR TEARDOWN

Hims: a million visits a month, and what they are actually worth

The category leader in men's health, pulled apart on its own numbers. Where the traffic comes from, what it converts on, and the flank a challenger can still take.

Methodology: Ahrefs Site Explorer, hims.com including subdomains. Ahrefs, organic keywords and top pages, subdomains mode. United States. 1 August 2026. Figures are the Ahrefs export on that date and are not adjusted. CPC values are converted from the API's cents to dollars.

1,050,921
Monthly organic visits
38%
Of it from one branded term
42,310
Keywords in the top 3

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Hims draws 1,050,921 monthly organic visits in the US from 92,558 ranking keywords, 42,310 of them in the top three positions. Roughly 38% of that traffic lands on the homepage from the single branded query "hims", and the six largest non-brand pages are sexual wellness blog articles carrying almost no commercial intent, which is where the gap for a challenger sits.

17
exits, all built on organic search
$150M
revenue generated for clients
35+
team members worldwide
100%
hands-off, fully managed

01

The scale, stated plainly

Hims is the largest organic property in men's telehealth, and the figures are worth reading before anyone tells you the category is unwinnable.

The traffic value line is the one to hold on to. Ahrefs prices their organic visits at roughly $5.35M a month, against about $1.02M a month of paid. They are not buying this position. They earned it, and they earned most of it before the category filled up.

The scale, stated plainly
MetricOrganicPaid
Monthly visits1,050,921118,467
Monthly traffic value$5,348,164$1,019,840
Ranking keywords92,5581,067
Keywords in the top 342,310

Organic carries five times the traffic and five times the value of their paid programme. For a brand of this size that ratio is the whole argument for the channel, and it is the ratio most eight and nine figure telehealth brands have inverted.

02

38% of it is one word

The homepage takes 398,996 of those visits. The query behind it is "hims", at 401,000 searches a month.

That is not an SEO position, it is a brand position, and it is the single most misread number in this category. A competitor benchmarking against Hims and seeing a million visits is benchmarking against a decade of television, podcast and paid social spend that happens to resolve through search.

Strip the brand out and the picture changes completely. What is left is a content estate, and the content estate is where the argument actually is.

03

The commercial demand, separated from the reading material

Volume is not the interesting column on this domain. Their largest non-brand pages rank on queries the paid market prices at a cent or two, which tells you what those clicks are worth to a prescriber.

So here is the opposite cut: non-branded keywords carrying commercial or transactional intent and a CPC above $2.50, which is the demand a men's health brand is actually competing for.

The commercial demand, separated from the reading material
KeywordVolumeKDCPCPositionTraffic
finasteride320,00072$3.3810
oral minoxidil45,00034$5.8119157
topical finasteride21,00035$3.8214,457
generic viagra17,00054$6.4719
erectile dysfunction medication6,40073$4.671179
ed medications5,90057$4.487310
testosterone online1,90039$7.491854

Read the last two columns together, because that is where this gets strange.

Hims ranks first for "finasteride", 320,000 searches a month at a $3.38 CPC, and Ahrefs attributes zero traffic to that position. First for "generic viagra", 17,000 searches at $6.47, and nine visits. First for "erectile dysfunction medication" at $4.67, and 179 visits.

Holding position one on a medical head term is not the same as receiving its traffic. These SERPs are stacked with knowledge panels, institutional results and features that resolve the query before anyone reaches a commercial listing, which is the same reason we tell hair loss brands not to chase "minoxidil" and TRT brands not to chase "testosterone replacement therapy".

The one row on this table doing real work is "topical finasteride": 21,000 searches, difficulty 35, and 4,457 visits landing on an actual treatment page. Specific beats big, even for the incumbent.

04

Where the flank is open

Two things follow from that table, and both are actionable for a brand with a fraction of the budget.

The first is "oral minoxidil". 45,000 searches a month, difficulty 34, a $5.81 CPC, and the category leader sits at position 19 with 157 visits. That is a newer prescribing pattern where the publisher content is thin and the incumbent has not bothered. It is the single clearest opening on this domain, and it is the same gap our hair loss playbook is built around.

The second is that the head terms are a trap for everyone, incumbent included. If Hims cannot convert a first position on 320,000 monthly searches into traffic, a challenger spending two years chasing the same term will not either. The demand worth having is treatment-specific, priced above $3, and sits at difficulty 35 rather than 72.

A challenger does not need to beat 1,050,921 visits. It needs to beat 157.

When I am asked if I know of anyone in the SEO space, without hesitation I point them to DTC SEO. They truly understand the power of authority content, onsite metrics, and strategic backlinking and has the network to put it into play.
Amanda Raab, Mergers & Acquisitions, Quiet Light Brokerage

Links we have landed for clients

  • Forbes
  • TIME
  • Cosmopolitan
  • Men's Health
  • Inc
  • Martha Stewart
  • Time Out
  • Apartment Therapy
  • mindbodygreen
  • well+good
  • OK!
  • Best

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Methodology: Ahrefs Site Explorer, hims.com including subdomains. Ahrefs, organic keywords and top pages, subdomains mode. United States. 1 August 2026. Figures are the Ahrefs export on that date and are not adjusted. CPC values are converted from the API's cents to dollars.

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How much organic traffic does Hims actually get?

1,050,921 monthly visits in the US, from 92,558 ranking keywords, with 42,310 of those keywords sitting in the top three positions. Ahrefs values that traffic at roughly $5.35M a month.

Is Hims beatable on SEO?

Not on brand, and not on total volume. On the pages that sell, yes. Their hair loss and erectile dysfunction pages draw 53,303 visits a month between them, which is a target a focused brand can reach, unlike the million figure that includes their branded homepage traffic.

Why is so much of their traffic worth so little?

Their largest non-brand pages rank for sexual wellness queries with CPCs around $0.01. The paid market prices those clicks at a cent because they do not convert into prescriptions. Volume and commercial value are not the same thing, and this domain is the clearest example of it in telehealth.

What would you take from them first?

Treatment-specific demand. "topical finasteride" sits at 21,000 searches and difficulty 35. Terms at that shape are winnable inside a normal engagement and they attract a buyer who has already decided to treat.

Where did these numbers come from?

A single Ahrefs Site Explorer export for hims.com including subdomains, United States, taken on 1 August 2026. Nothing is adjusted, rounded or estimated. The methodology line at the top and foot of this page states it in full.

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