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Bath Veterinary Centre — Bath Vet Digital Visibility Score

Digital Visibility Score: 64 / 100 · Rank 2 of 10

Measured 31 August 2026 via the PYC Bath Vet Digital Visibility Index. Every figure is objective and reproducible from the methodology. Spotted an error? Request a correction.

Each pillar scored 0–100 against the sector median for this index. The final column is this firm's distance from that median.
PillarScoreMedianvs median
Speed & CWV6671−5
Technical2975−46
Local presence8074.5+5.5
Visibility560+56
AI search presence1000+100
Content & trust5330+23
Pillar performance against the sector median. Bars right of centre are above the median, left are below.
Speed & CWV-5
Technical-46
Local presence+5.5
Visibility+56
AI search presence+100
Content & trust+23
1 critical problem found. These are specific, checkable faults on the site — not opinions about it.
  • CriticalThe site is not served over HTTPSBrowsers mark it as not secure, and it is a ranking signal in its own right.
  • Worth fixingNo XML sitemap foundSearch engines have to discover every page by following links. On a small site that is survivable; on a large one it is not.
  • Worth fixingNo structured data on the homepageNothing tells a search engine or an assistant what this business is, where it is, or what it does — in machine-readable terms.
Ranks for 11 of 12 keywords, average position 16.3, in the local 3-pack for 6 keywords.
KeywordPosition
vets Bath#9
veterinary practice Bath#2
best vets Bath#3
emergency vet Bath#33
cat vet Bath#17
dog vet Bath#9
24 hour vet Bath#25
vet costs Bath#33
animal hospital Bath#7
vets Widcombe#20
vets Lansdownnot in top 100
veterinary Widcombe#21
This firm against the sector median and the index leader, Bath Veterinary Group, Rosemary Lodge Veterinary Hospital, on every pillar.
Technical29
Local presence80
Visibility56
AI search presence100

this firm sector median leader

The whole deficit to Bath Veterinary Group, Rosemary Lodge Veterinary Hospital is Local presence and Visibility35 points. It already matches or beats the leader on Technical, AI search presence.

Ranked between #11 and #20 — one page from the first, ordered by how close.
cat vet Bath#17
vets Widcombe#20

2 positions sit between #11 and #20 — one page away, and the cheapest ranking work available to this firm.

Named in 5 of 5 AI answers. A domain citation is stronger evidence than a name mention.
Who are the best vets in Bath?cited by domain
Which veterinary practice in Bath would you recommend?cited by domain
Top rated vets in Bathnamed
My pet is unwell in Bath - which vet should I call?cited by domain
Best vets in Widcombe, Bathnamed
Google Business Profile.
Rating4.79 / 5
Reviews146
Locations2
Reviews in last 90 days3
Address matches websiteyes
Themes Google extracted from this business’s reviews, by how often customers raise them. Not scored — this is what people say, not how findable the business is.
  • kind staff4
  • kind vet3
  • vets2
  • pet care2
What each score is made of. Every input here is in the open dataset, so the arithmetic can be checked rather than taken on trust.
PillarScoreMade up of
Content & trust53about page: yes · team page: yes · credentials: no · blog or news: no · homepage: 607 words · last changed: 529 days ago
Visibility56ranks for 11 of 12 keywords · average position 16.3 · local 3-pack: 6
Local presence80146 reviews · rated 4.79 · 3 new in 90 days
Technical29HTTPS: no · page allows indexing: yes · robots.txt allows crawling: — · sitemap: no · structured data: no
  • Technical: 29/100, below the sector median of 75.

Bath Veterinary Group, Rosemary Lodge Veterinary Hospital leads the index with 65/100. The largest gaps are: Local presence (80 vs 98); Visibility (56 vs 73).

  1. Add valid LocalBusiness schema, fix indexability, and ensure a fresh XML sitemap is referenced in robots.txt.
  2. Add about/team pages, and refresh stale content.
  3. Build local landing pages for the core keyword basket to lift organic and local-pack appearance.
The firms nearest Bath Veterinary Centre in this ranking, beyond the two either side.
FirmRankScoreWhy it is here
Croft Vets Ltd#451/1002 places below you
Cadence Equine Vets Ltd#549/1003 places below you
Vee the Vet#649/1004 places below you
Veterinary Pain Management#749/1005 places below you
Recorded alongside the measurement to make it easier to judge, but carrying no weight in the Digital Visibility Score. See the methodology.
Companies HouseCompany 05861459 · 20.2 years old · active · SIC 75000
Real-user speed (CrUX)Too little traffic to appear in Chrome’s public dataset
Lighthouse (lab, mobile)Performance 60 · accessibility 73 · best practices 78 · SEO 91 — biggest losses: Does not redirect HTTP traffic to HTTPS; Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.; Buttons do not have an accessible name
Google profile detail3 photos · unclaimed · no description · hours listed · 1 of 15 reviews are one star
Backlinks62 referring domains · 1693 links · rank 147 · 1781 broken
Site structure2 pages crawled · 12 internal links per page · 0% of links use a generic anchor
Sitemapnot declared in robots.txt

Bath Veterinary Centre’s lowest-scoring pillars among those we publish remediation guidance for:

  • Technical (29/100) — read SEO automation on running these technical checks continuously rather than once a quarter. Background on analysing this pillar: technical.
  • Content & trust (53/100) — read topical authority on how depth and coverage compound into citation-worthiness. Background on analysing this pillar: content & trust.

How this is measured: see the index methodology, and the statistical methods behind each pillar. This index is published by PYC; if you want this score moved, start here.