Community Vets — Bristol Vet Digital Visibility Score

Digital Visibility Score: 55 / 100 · Rank 16 of 29

Digital Visibility Score55/100Rank 16 of 29 Problems found1The site has not changed in a long time One page from the first1Closest: best vets Bristol at #13 Furthest behind-39.5Speed & CWV: 29 against a sector median of 68.5

Measured 1 September 2026 via the PYC Bristol 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	29	68.5	−39.5
Technical	100	88	+12
Local presence	79	81	−2
Visibility	4	21	−17
AI search presence	40	0	+40
Content & trust	66	60	+6

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

Speed & CWV		-39.5
Technical		+12
Local presence		-2
Visibility		-17
AI search presence		+40
Content & trust		+6

Problems found

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

Worth knowingThe site has not changed in a long timeThe homepage last reported a change 11.4 years ago.

Where this firm ranks

Ranks for 1 of 12 keywords, average position 13, in the local 3-pack for 0 keywords.

Keyword	Position
vets Bristol	not in top 100
veterinary practice Bristol	not in top 100
best vets Bristol	#13
emergency vet Bristol	not in top 100
cat vet Bristol	not in top 100
dog vet Bristol	not in top 100
24 hour vet Bristol	not in top 100
vet costs Bristol	not in top 100
animal hospital Bristol	not in top 100
vets Clifton	not in top 100
vets Redland	not in top 100
veterinary Clifton	not in top 100

The gap to the leader

This firm against the sector median and the index leader, Bristol Vet Specialists, on every pillar.

Speed & CWV		29
Technical		100
Local presence		79
Visibility		4
AI search presence		40
Content & trust		66

this firm sector median leader

Community Vets trails Bristol Vet Specialists by 144 points across 4 pillars, but 72% of that is Visibility and Speed & CWV alone. It already matches or beats the leader on Technical, Content & trust.

Closest to the first page

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

best vets Bristol

#13

1 position sits between #11 and #20 — one page away, and the cheapest ranking work available to this firm.

AI search presence

Named in 2 of 5 AI answers. A domain citation is stronger evidence than a name mention.

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

Local presence

Google Business Profile.

Rating	5 / 5
Reviews	87
Locations	1
Reviews in last 90 days	2
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.

vets11
caring staff8
nurses6
waiting list4
bulldogs3
animal lovers3
consultations2
safety2
trustworthy2
team2

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
Content & trust	66	about page: yes · team page: yes · credentials: yes · blog or news: no · homepage: 452 words · last changed: 4167 days ago
Visibility	4	ranks for 1 of 12 keywords · average position 13 · local 3-pack: 0
Local presence	79	87 reviews · rated 5 · 2 new in 90 days
Technical	100	HTTPS: yes · page allows indexing: yes · robots.txt allows crawling: yes · sitemap: yes · structured data: yes

Key findings

Speed & CWV: 29/100, below the sector median of 68.5.
Visibility: 4/100, below the sector median of 21.

How this compares to the leader

Bristol Vet Specialists leads the index with 80/100. The largest gaps are: Visibility (4 vs 56); Speed & CWV (29 vs 80); Local presence (79 vs 100).

Top fixes (ranked by impact)

Build local landing pages for the core keyword basket to lift organic and local-pack appearance.
Cut mobile LCP below 2.5s (optimise images and remove render-blocking resources) — the biggest score and ranking lever.
Publish structured, citable content and entity schema so AI engines surface the business for core local queries.

Firms ranked near this one

The firms nearest Community Vets in this ranking, beyond the two either side.

Firm	Rank	Score	Why it is here
PassPets Bristol	#14	57/100	2 places above you
Watkins & Tasker Vets	#18	54/100	2 places below you
Golden Valley Vets	#13	57/100	3 places above you
Avenue Veterinary Centre	#19	53/100	3 places below 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	Company 08840266 · 12.6 years old · active · SIC 75000
Real-user speed (CrUX)	Too little traffic to appear in Chrome’s public dataset
Lighthouse (lab, mobile)	Performance 34 · accessibility 72 · best practices 78 · SEO 100 — biggest losses: Network dependency tree; Browser errors were logged to the console; `[user-scalable="no"]` is used in the `<meta name="viewport">` element or the `[maximum-scale]` attribute is less than 5.
Google profile detail	8 photos · claimed · no description · hours listed · 0 of 87 reviews are one star
Backlinks	69 referring domains · 126 links · rank 102
Site structure	Not crawled — homepage HTTP 403

Where to get this fixed

Community Vets’s lowest-scoring pillars among those we publish remediation guidance for:

Visibility (4/100) — read topical authority on why ranking breadth across a sector beats chasing single terms. Background on analysing this pillar: visibility.
AI search presence (40/100) — 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.