Bristol Vet Digital Visibility Index — Q3-2026

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

5 of the firms below are missing at least one pillar: Speed & CWV (28 of 29), Content & trust (25 of 29). 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: Emerson’s Green Veterinary Surgery, Jollyes Pet Clinic - Bristol Warmley, Rowe Vet Group – Winterbourne, Bath Veterinary Group, Park Road Vets, Vale Vets. See the methodology.

The PYC Bristol Vet Digital Visibility Index ranks 29 bristol 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 1 September 2026 to the published methodology.

As of Q3-2026, 11% of the 28 bristol vets measured on Speed & Core Web Vitals score below 50 on mobile (PYC Bristol Vet Digital Visibility Index, measured 1 September 2026).

Who owns the first page

Across 12 keywords there are 120 first-page organic slots. The firms in this index hold 58 of them (48.3%); 47 distinct domains appear in total.

this index (58)   directories, national chains and firms not indexed (62)

Ranking well but not currently indexed:

• langfordvets.co.uk — 11 top-10 slots, best #2
• cvsvets.com — 11 top-10 slots, best #3
• vets4pets.com — 7 top-10 slots, best #2
• rcvs.org.uk — 6 top-10 slots, best #2
• vets-now.com — 4 top-10 slots, best #1

51.7% 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

#	Bristol Vet	Score	Spd	Tech	Local	Vis	AI	Cont
1	Bristol Vet Specialists	80	80	100	100	56	60	66
2	Animal House Vets - Downend	78	86	100	80	55	80	50
3	Fernlea Veterinary Clinics	67	67	100	82	50	20	66
4	The Pet Vet Bristol	67	78	88	89	52	0	79
5	The Grove Vets	64	77	88	88	38	0	75
6	Avon Lodge Veterinary Group	63	83	100	97	0	20	42
7	Bristol Animal Rescue Centre Clinic	62	83	88	79	50	0	49
8	Viking Vets	62	56	88	83	46	20	62
9	Zetland Vets, Westbury-On-Trym	62	79	100	79	22	20	46
10	Zetland Vets, Clifton	60	78	100	86	0	20	46
11	Highcroft Referrals	58	77	100	79	0	0	66
12	Peaceful Paws Vet	58	73	100	100	0	0	37
13	Golden Valley Vets	57	70	100	77	21	0	45
14	PassPets Bristol	57	68	88	100	0	0	60
15	Bristol PDSA Pet Hospital	56	69	75	87	39	0	35
16	Community Vets	55	29	100	79	4	40	66
17	The Downs Veterinary Practice	55	30	88	81	50	0	74
18	Watkins & Tasker Vets	54	52	100	78	0	0	78
19	Avenue Veterinary Centre	53	46	88	79	25	0	66
20	Chicken Clinic - Pet poultry vet	53	79	100	67	0	0	35
21	Highcroft Veterinary Group	53	64	88	76	10	0	63
22	Luna The Dental Vets Bristol	51	60	100	94	4	0	0
23	Emerson's Green Veterinary Surgery	49	75	0	93	29	40	—
24	Jollyes Pet Clinic - Bristol Warmley	46	—	75	66	0	0	83
25	Pet Setters Bristol	46	64	75	72	0	0	35
26	Rowe Vet Group – Winterbourne	43	68	0	83	57	0	—
27	Bath Veterinary Group, Park Road Vets	36	62	0	83	21	0	—
28	Premier Veterinary Group plc	35	52	43	61	0	0	40
29	Vale Vets	31	59	0	72	13	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 Clifton	vets Redland	veterinary Clifton
Bristol Vet Specialists	1	6	2	7	2	2	20	23	1	13	16	16
Animal House Vets - Downend	7	10	8	27	13	6	6	32	15	1	1	1
Fernlea Veterinary Clinics	5	2	10	6	8	11	9	1	10		21
The Pet Vet Bristol	14	14	4	9	4	1	14	8	22	20	12	23
The Grove Vets	9	8	3	21		14	33	5	26
Avon Lodge Veterinary Group
Bristol Animal Rescue Centre Clinic	44	36	73	32	10	41	23	35	36	17	62	64
Viking Vets	29	22	12	5	25	30	8	36	38		32	45
Zetland Vets, Westbury-On-Trym					26						26
Zetland Vets, Clifton
Highcroft Referrals
Peaceful Paws Vet
Golden Valley Vets	28		21	38		34	39
PassPets Bristol
Bristol PDSA Pet Hospital	24	50		17		12	10	39	5		23	22
Community Vets			13
The Downs Veterinary Practice	17	1	19	8	32	20	11	3	19	4	8	5
Watkins & Tasker Vets
Avenue Veterinary Centre	11		16	18		10	5	26
Chicken Clinic - Pet poultry vet
Highcroft Veterinary Group
Luna The Dental Vets Bristol						35
Emerson's Green Veterinary Surgery	21	16	20	12	19	18	13
Jollyes Pet Clinic - Bristol Warmley
Pet Setters Bristol
Rowe Vet Group – Winterbourne	6	7	9	2	1	4	2	10	6	33	10	14
Bath Veterinary Group, Park Road Vets	19			19	31		19				17
Premier Veterinary Group plc
Vale Vets				16			7	17

1–3 4–10 11–20 21+ absent

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. 1 of 29 appear in all three.

Visible in	Firms	Which
All three channels	1	Animal House Vets - Downend
Organic + local pack	3	The Pet Vet Bristol, The Grove Vets, Bristol PDSA Pet Hospital
Organic + AI	3	Bristol Vet Specialists, Fernlea Veterinary Clinics, Viking Vets
Local pack + AI	1	Zetland Vets, Westbury-On-Trym
Organic only	5	Bristol Animal Rescue Centre Clinic, The Downs Veterinary Practice, Avenue Veterinary Centre, Rowe Vet Group – Winterbourne, Vale Vets
Local pack only	1	Highcroft Veterinary Group
AI only	4	Avon Lodge Veterinary Group, Zetland Vets, Clifton, Community Vets, Emerson's Green Veterinary Surgery
None of the three	11	Highcroft Referrals, Peaceful Paws Vet, Golden Valley Vets, PassPets Bristol, Watkins & Tasker Vets, Chicken Clinic - Pet poultry vet, Luna The Dental Vets Bristol, Jollyes Pet Clinic - Bristol Warmley, Pet Setters Bristol, Bath Veterinary Group, Park Road Vets, Premier Veterinary Group plc

1 of 29 firms are visible in all three channels. 11 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 ↑

Rowe Vet Group – Winterbourne 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.

Fernlea Veterinary Clinics	Fernlea Veterinary Clinics — dog vet Bristol		#11
The Downs Veterinary Practice	The Downs Veterinary Practice — 24 hour vet Bristol		#11
Avenue Veterinary Centre	Avenue Veterinary Centre — vets Bristol		#11
The Pet Vet Bristol	The Pet Vet Bristol — vets Redland		#12
Viking Vets	Viking Vets — best vets Bristol		#12
Bristol PDSA Pet Hospital	Bristol PDSA Pet Hospital — dog vet Bristol		#12
Emerson's Green Veterinary Surgery	Emerson's Green Veterinary Surgery — emergency vet Bristol		#12
Bristol Vet Specialists	Bristol Vet Specialists — vets Clifton		#13
Animal House Vets - Downend	Animal House Vets - Downend — cat vet Bristol		#13
Community Vets	Community Vets — best vets Bristol		#13

39 winnable positions across 15 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. The rating axis starts at 4.4 so the cluster is readable; one firm rated below that sits on the floor, drawn hollow and named.

horizontal: reviews (log) →   vertical: rating ↑

Review volume spans 1 to 1278 and ratings 4.1 to 5, yet the Local pillar separates these firms by only 39 points — the raw figures discriminate where the score does not. Most reviews: Zetland Vets, Westbury-On-Trym (1278). Highest rating: 6 firms tied at 5.

What the keyword basket is asking

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

commercial		5 of 12
navigational		5 of 12
informational		2 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 51.455, -2.588. 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. 9 of 9 points contain at least one indexed firm, and 12 of the 29 indexed firms appear somewhere on the grid.

N ↑

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

3NWnorth-west, 51.509, -2.674 — Bristol Vet Specialists, Viking Vets, Zetland Vets, Westbury-On-Trym	2Nnorth, 51.509, -2.588 — Zetland Vets, Westbury-On-Trym, Animal House Vets - Downend	2NEnorth-east, 51.509, -2.501 — Rowe Vet Group – Winterbourne, Animal House Vets - Downend
3Wwest, 51.455, -2.674 — Community Vets, Zetland Vets, Westbury-On-Trym, Vale Vets	3·centre, 51.455, -2.588 — Zetland Vets, Westbury-On-Trym, Highcroft Veterinary Group, The Grove Vets	3Eeast, 51.455, -2.501 — Fernlea Veterinary Clinics, Highcroft Veterinary Group, Animal House Vets - Downend
3SWsouth-west, 51.400, -2.674 — Animal House Vets - Downend, Highcroft Veterinary Group, Zetland Vets, Westbury-On-Trym	3Ssouth, 51.400, -2.588 — Highcroft Veterinary Group, Animal House Vets - Downend, The Pet Vet Bristol	2SEsouth-east, 51.400, -2.501 — Bath Veterinary Group, Park Road Vets, Highcroft Veterinary Group

3.7 miles between points

none 1 firm 2 3 of the pack

What the register says this cohort is

Companies House matched 5 of 29 businesses on an exact name with a corroborating registered address. Firms are seeded by trading name, which is how a business presents itself rather than what it is registered to do — so the mix below is often broader than the index title suggests. Median company age is 15.4 years, ranging from 12.6 to 24.8. Recorded alongside the measurement and carrying no weight in any score.

SIC	Registered activity	Firms
75000	Not labelled here	3
99999	Not labelled here	2

Which bristol vet has the best website?

Bristol Vet Specialists tops the Q3-2026 index with a Digital Visibility Score of 80/100. 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: Bristol Vet, Q3-2026. https://hub.pyc.agency/indices/bristol-vets/

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