Bath Vet Digital Visibility Index — Q3-2026

Not every firm could be measured on every pillar (Q3-2026)

2 of the firms below are missing at least one pillar: Speed & CWV (9 of 10), Content & trust (8 of 10). Where a pillar could not be measured for a firm it is excluded from that firm’s score and its remaining weights are renormalised, rather than scored zero — so those firms are ranked on less evidence than the rest, and their position should be read with that in mind. Affected: Bath Veterinary Group, Rosemary Lodge Veterinary Hospital, Bath Veterinary Group, Bath Cat Clinic. See the methodology.

The PYC Bath Vet Digital Visibility Index ranks 10 bath vets on how well they perform online — website speed, technical SEO, local presence, search visibility, AI search presence and content & trust — each scored 0–100 to a single Digital Visibility Score. Measured 31 August 2026 to the published methodology.

As of Q3-2026, 0% of the 9 bath vets measured on Speed & Core Web Vitals score below 50 on mobile (PYC Bath Vet Digital Visibility Index, measured 31 August 2026).

Who owns the first page

Across 12 keywords there are 120 first-page organic slots. The firms in this index hold 35 of them (29.2%); 59 distinct domains appear in total.

this index (35)   directories, national chains and firms not indexed (85)

Ranking well but not currently indexed:

• cvsvets.com — 12 top-10 slots, best #1
• rcvs.org.uk — 11 top-10 slots, best #1
• vets4pets.com — 7 top-10 slots, best #1
• bathvetreferrals.co.uk — 7 top-10 slots, best #3
• vets-now.com — 6 top-10 slots, best #1

70.8% of the first page belongs to businesses outside this index — directories, national chains and local firms not tracked here. These firms are not mainly competing with each other.

The league table

#	Bath Vet	Score	Spd	Tech	Local	Vis	AI	Cont
1	Bath Veterinary Group, Rosemary Lodge Veterinary Hospital	65	—	0	98	73	100	—
2	Bath Veterinary Centre	64	66	29	80	56	100	53
3	Kelston Vets	61	71	100	84	32	0	50
4	Croft Vets Ltd	51	80	88	76	0	0	17
5	Cadence Equine Vets Ltd	49	64	100	73	0	0	16
6	Vee the Vet	49	62	100	64	0	0	35
7	Veterinary Pain Management	49	90	75	63	0	0	30
8	Hands On Animal Physiotherapy	44	81	63	62	0	0	30
9	Vetindex Ltd	43	82	75	47	0	0	25
10	Bath Veterinary Group, Bath Cat Clinic	41	60	0	83	57	0	—

Which keywords are contested, and which are open?

Every firm against every keyword, shaded by position. Darker is stronger; blank means outside the top 100. Read down a column for a contested term, across a row for a firm's reach.

	vets	veterinary practice	best vets	emergency vet	cat vet	dog vet	24 hour vet	vet costs	animal hospital	vets Widcombe	vets Lansdown	veterinary Widcombe
Bath Veterinary Group, Rosemary Lodge Veterinary Hospital	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	1	1	12	56	11
Bath Veterinary Centre	9	2	3	33	17	9	25	33	7	20		21
Kelston Vets	6	6	5				4		19
Croft Vets Ltd
Cadence Equine Vets Ltd
Vee the Vet
Veterinary Pain Management
Hands On Animal Physiotherapy
Vetindex Ltd
Bath Veterinary Group, Bath Cat Clinic	3	4	6	11	1	8	9	3	5	15		16

1–3 4–10 11–20 21+ absent

No firm in this index reaches the first page for “vets Widcombe”, “vets Lansdown”, “veterinary Widcombe”. That is uncontested ground, and it is invisible in a league table.

Where each firm is visible

Where each firm is visible: ranked in the organic top 10 for at least one keyword, present in the local 3-pack, or named in at least one AI answer. 2 of 10 appear in all three.

Visible in	Firms	Which
All three channels	2	Bath Veterinary Group, Rosemary Lodge Veterinary Hospital, Bath Veterinary Centre
Organic + local pack	1	Kelston Vets
Organic + AI	0	—
Local pack + AI	0	—
Organic only	1	Bath Veterinary Group, Bath Cat Clinic
Local pack only	0	—
AI only	0	—
None of the three	6	Croft Vets Ltd, Cadence Equine Vets Ltd, Vee the Vet, Veterinary Pain Management, Hands On Animal Physiotherapy, Vetindex Ltd

2 of 10 firms are visible in all three channels. 6 appear in none of them.

Search visibility against AI presence

Search visibility against AI search presence. The dashed diagonal is parity; a firm far from it is strong in one channel and weak in the other.

horizontal: search visibility →   vertical: AI presence ↑

Bath Veterinary Group, Bath Cat Clinic is the widest split: search surfaces it far more readily than AI engines name it (visibility 57, AI 0) — search without brand. Those are different problems behind a similar overall score.

Closest to the first page

Ranked between #11 and #20 — one page from the first, ordered by how close.

Bath Veterinary Group, Rosemary Lodge Veterinary Hospital	Bath Veterinary Group, Rosemary Lodge Veterinary Hospital — veterinary Widcombe		#11
Bath Veterinary Group, Bath Cat Clinic	Bath Veterinary Group, Bath Cat Clinic — emergency vet Bath		#11
Bath Veterinary Group, Rosemary Lodge Veterinary Hospital	Bath Veterinary Group, Rosemary Lodge Veterinary Hospital — vets Widcombe		#12
Bath Veterinary Group, Bath Cat Clinic	Bath Veterinary Group, Bath Cat Clinic — vets Widcombe		#15
Bath Veterinary Group, Bath Cat Clinic	Bath Veterinary Group, Bath Cat Clinic — veterinary Widcombe		#16
Bath Veterinary Centre	Bath Veterinary Centre — cat vet Bath		#17
Kelston Vets	Kelston Vets — animal hospital Bath		#19
Bath Veterinary Centre	Bath Veterinary Centre — vets Widcombe		#20

8 winnable positions across 4 firms sit between #11 and #20 — one page off, and closer than any keyword the index does not already measure.

Reputation: reviews against rating

Google review volume (log scale) against average rating. Bubble size is review count.

horizontal: reviews (log) →   vertical: rating ↑

Review volume spans 1 to 779 and ratings 4.57 to 5, yet the Local pillar separates these firms by only 36 points — the raw figures discriminate where the score does not. Most reviews: Bath Veterinary Group, Rosemary Lodge Veterinary Hospital (779). Highest rating: 5 firms tied at 5.

What the keyword basket is asking

Search intent across the measured keyword basket, classified by DataForSEO.

informational		8 of 12
commercial		4 of 12

Local pack coverage across the city

Local 3-pack for “vets near me” searched from 9 points on a 3×3 grid across a 7.5-mile square centred on 51.381, -2.359. North is up; each cell names its position and carries its coordinates and the firms found there. Each cell counts how many indexed firms hold a pack slot at that location; a chain counts wherever any of its branches appears. 7 of 9 points contain at least one indexed firm, and 3 of the 10 indexed firms appear somewhere on the grid.

N ↑

Indexed firms holding a local pack slot, by grid position from north-west to south-east

NWnorth-west, 51.435, -2.445 — no indexed firm in the pack here	3Nnorth, 51.435, -2.359 — Kelston Vets, Bath Veterinary Centre, Bath Veterinary Group, Rosemary Lodge Veterinary Hospital	NEnorth-east, 51.435, -2.273 — no indexed firm in the pack here
3Wwest, 51.381, -2.445 — Kelston Vets, Bath Veterinary Group, Rosemary Lodge Veterinary Hospital, Bath Veterinary Centre	2·centre, 51.381, -2.359 — Bath Veterinary Centre, Bath Veterinary Group, Rosemary Lodge Veterinary Hospital	1Eeast, 51.381, -2.273 — Bath Veterinary Centre
1SWsouth-west, 51.327, -2.445 — Bath Veterinary Group, Rosemary Lodge Veterinary Hospital	2Ssouth, 51.327, -2.359 — Bath Veterinary Group, Rosemary Lodge Veterinary Hospital, Bath Veterinary Centre	1SEsouth-east, 51.327, -2.273 — Bath Veterinary Centre

3.7 miles between points

none 1 firm 2 3 of the pack

Which bath vet has the best website?

Bath Veterinary Group, Rosemary Lodge Veterinary Hospital tops the Q3-2026 index with a Digital Visibility Score of 65/100. Each firm has a full diagnostic scorecard linked from the table above.

How this is measured

Every score follows the same six-pillar methodology: Speed & Core Web Vitals (20%), Technical foundation (20%), Local presence (20%), Visibility (15%), AI search presence (15%) and Content & trust (10%). Each pillar links to the knowledge-base article that explains what it measures; the statistical methods behind the scoring are written up separately. Download the full dataset: JSON · CSV.

Who publishes this

The index is compiled and published by PYC, a search consultancy run by Phil Yarrow. It exists because the questions it answers — who is actually visible in a local market, and by how much — were being answered with opinion. The collection and scoring code is open source, so any figure here can be recomputed rather than taken on trust.

Related reading on the practice behind the measurements: topical authority, generative engine optimisation, and case studies from comparable service businesses.

Using this data

This dataset is published under CC BY 4.0. You may reuse it, including commercially and in AI-generated answers, provided you credit Phil Yarrow (PYC) by name and link back. That credit is a condition of use, not a courtesy.

Phil Yarrow (PYC) — Local Digital Visibility Index. https://hub.pyc.agency/indices/

That one credit covers every dataset on this site — one figure or all of them. When quoting this particular dataset precisely, the fuller form is:

Phil Yarrow (PYC) — Local Digital Visibility Index: Bath Vet, Q3-2026. https://hub.pyc.agency/indices/bath-vets/

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