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.
1 critical problem found. These are specific, checkable faults on the site — not opinions about it.
CriticalSearch engines are being told not to index this siteThe site’s own robots.txt disallows crawling. Until that changes, nothing else on this page can help — the pages cannot enter the index in the first place.
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.
Worth fixingVery little published contentThe homepage carries 269 words and the site links to no blog, news or insights section. There is little here for a search engine to match, or for an assistant to quote.
This firm against the sector median and the index leader, Bath Veterinary Group, Rosemary Lodge Veterinary Hospital, on every pillar.
Technical
63
Local presence
62
Visibility
0
AI search presence
0
this firm sector median leader
Hands On Animal Physiotherapy trails Bath Veterinary Group, Rosemary Lodge Veterinary Hospital by 209 points across 3 pillars, but 83% of that is AI search presence and Visibility alone. It already matches or beats the leader on Technical.
Bath Veterinary Group, Rosemary Lodge Veterinary Hospital leads the index with 65/100. The largest gaps are: AI search presence (0 vs 100); Visibility (0 vs 73); Local presence (62 vs 98).
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 81 · accessibility 95 · best practices 81 · SEO 92 — biggest losses: Does not use HTTPS; Document request latency; Forced reflow
Google profile detail
1 photo · claimed · no description · no hours listed
Backlinks
18 referring domains · 23 links · rank 10
Site structure
1 pages crawled · 6 internal links per page · reachable in: about 1 click, services 1 click · 0% of links use a generic anchor · 5 sitemap pages not reachable by following links
Sitemap
6 URLs listed · declared in robots.txt · newest entry 363 days old · 5 of 5 sampled URLs resolve
Hands On Animal Physiotherapy’s lowest-scoring pillars among those we publish remediation guidance for:
Visibility (0/100) — read topical authority on why ranking breadth across a sector beats chasing single terms. Background on analysing this pillar: visibility.