Bath Veterinary Group, Bath Cat Clinic — Bath Vet Digital Visibility Score

Digital Visibility Score: 41 / 100 · Rank 10 of 10

Digital Visibility Score41/100Rank 10 of 10 Problems found1No XML sitemap found One page from the first3Closest: emergency vet Bath at #11 Furthest behind-75Technical: 0 against a sector median of 75

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.

Pillar breakdown vs sector median

Each pillar scored 0–100 against the sector median for this index. The final column is this firm's distance from that median.

Pillar	Score	Median	vs median
Speed & CWV	60	71	−11
Technical	0	75	−75
Local presence	83	74.5	+8.5
Visibility	57	0	+57
AI search presence	0	0	level
Content & trust	—	30	not measured

Pillar performance against the sector median. Bars right of centre are above the median, left are below.

Speed & CWV		-11
Technical		-75
Local presence		+8.5
Visibility		+57
AI search presence		0
Content & trust		not measured

Problems found

These are specific, checkable faults on the site — not opinions about it.

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.

Where this firm ranks

Ranks for 11 of 12 keywords, average position 7.4, in the local 3-pack for 0 keywords.

Keyword	Position
vets Bath	#3
veterinary practice Bath	#4
best vets Bath	#6
emergency vet Bath	#11
cat vet Bath	#1
dog vet Bath	#8
24 hour vet Bath	#9
vet costs Bath	#3
animal hospital Bath	#5
vets Widcombe	#15
vets Lansdown	not in top 100
veterinary Widcombe	#16

The gap to the leader

This firm against the sector median and the index leader, Bath Veterinary Group, Rosemary Lodge Veterinary Hospital, on every pillar.

Technical		0
Local presence		83
Visibility		57
AI search presence		0

this firm sector median leader

Bath Veterinary Group, Bath Cat Clinic trails Bath Veterinary Group, Rosemary Lodge Veterinary Hospital by 131 points across 3 pillars, but 89% of that is AI search presence and Visibility alone. It already matches or beats the leader on Technical.

Closest to the first page

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

emergency vet Bath		#11
vets Widcombe		#15
veterinary Widcombe		#16

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

AI search presence

Named in 0 of 5 AI answers. A domain citation is stronger evidence than a name mention.

✗	Who are the best vets in Bath?
✗	Which veterinary practice in Bath would you recommend?
✗	Top rated vets in Bath
✗	My pet is unwell in Bath - which vet should I call?
✗	Best vets in Widcombe, Bath

Local presence

Google Business Profile.

Rating	4.8 / 5
Reviews	113
Locations	1
Reviews in last 90 days	4
Address matches website	yes

What customers talk about

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.

helpful staff29
caring staff10
lovely staff8
cat clinic4
compassionate care3
vet nurse3
keeping cat at ease2
calm patience2
veterinary team2
thoroughness2

Why this score

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.

Pillar	Score	Made up of
Visibility	57	ranks for 11 of 12 keywords · average position 7.4 · local 3-pack: 0
Local presence	83	113 reviews · rated 4.8 · 4 new in 90 days
Technical	0	HTTPS: — · page allows indexing: — · robots.txt allows crawling: — · sitemap: no · structured data: —

Key findings

Speed & CWV: 60/100, below the sector median of 71.
Technical: 0/100, below the sector median of 75.

How this compares to the leader

Bath Veterinary Group, Rosemary Lodge Veterinary Hospital leads the index with 65/100. The largest gaps are: AI search presence (0 vs 100); Visibility (57 vs 73); Local presence (83 vs 98).

Top fixes (ranked by impact)

Add valid LocalBusiness schema, fix indexability, and ensure a fresh XML sitemap is referenced in robots.txt.
Publish structured, citable content and entity schema so AI engines surface the business for core local queries.
Build local landing pages for the core keyword basket to lift organic and local-pack appearance.

Firms ranked near this one

The firms nearest Bath Veterinary Group, Bath Cat Clinic in this ranking, beyond the two either side.

Firm	Rank	Score	Why it is here
Hands On Animal Physiotherapy	#8	44/100	2 places above you
Veterinary Pain Management	#7	49/100	3 places above you
Vee the Vet	#6	49/100	4 places above you
Cadence Equine Vets Ltd	#5	49/100	5 places above you

Context (not scored)

Recorded alongside the measurement to make it easier to judge, but carrying no weight in the Digital Visibility Score. See the methodology.

Companies House	No confident match on the registered name
Real-user speed (CrUX)	Too little traffic to appear in Chrome’s public dataset
Lighthouse (lab, mobile)	Performance 45 · accessibility 96 · best practices 73 · SEO 100 — biggest losses: Uses deprecated APIs; Browser errors were logged to the console; Network dependency tree
Google profile detail	34 photos · claimed · has a description · hours listed · 5 of 113 reviews are one star
Backlinks	67 referring domains · 395 links · rank 165 · 1 broken
Site structure	Not crawled — fetch failed

Where to get this fixed

Bath Veterinary Group, Bath Cat Clinic’s lowest-scoring pillars among those we publish remediation guidance for:

Technical (0/100) — read SEO automation on running these technical checks continuously rather than once a quarter. Background on analysing this pillar: technical.
AI search presence (0/100) — read generative engine optimisation on getting named by the answer engines this pillar measures. Background on analysing this pillar: ai search presence.

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.