The Grove Vets — Bristol Vet Digital Visibility Score

Digital Visibility Score: 64 / 100 · Rank 5 of 29

Digital Visibility Score64/100Rank 5 of 29 · top 14%Critical problem1Search engines are being told not to index this site One page from the first1Closest: dog vet Bristol at #14

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	77	68.5	+8.5
Technical	88	88	level
Local presence	88	81	+7
Visibility	38	21	+17
AI search presence	0	0	level
Content & trust	75	60	+15

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

Speed & CWV		+8.5
Technical		0
Local presence		+7
Visibility		+17
AI search presence		0
Content & trust		+15

Problems found

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.

Where this firm ranks

Ranks for 8 of 12 keywords, average position 14.9, in the local 3-pack for 3 keywords.

Keyword	Position
vets Bristol	#9
veterinary practice Bristol	#8
best vets Bristol	#3
emergency vet Bristol	#21
cat vet Bristol	not in top 100
dog vet Bristol	#14
24 hour vet Bristol	#33
vet costs Bristol	#5
animal hospital Bristol	#26
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		77
Technical		88
Local presence		88
Visibility		38
AI search presence		0
Content & trust		75

this firm sector median leader

The Grove Vets trails Bristol Vet Specialists by 105 points across 5 pillars, but 74% of that is AI search presence and Visibility alone. It already matches or beats the leader on Content & trust.

Closest to the first page

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

dog vet Bristol

#14

1 position sits 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 Bristol?
✗	Which veterinary practice in Bristol would you recommend?
✗	Top rated vets in Bristol
✗	My pet is unwell in Bristol - which vet should I call?
✗	Best vets in Clifton, Bristol

Local presence

Google Business Profile.

Rating	4.9 / 5
Reviews	140
Locations	1
Reviews in last 90 days	8
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.

understanding vets5
social distancing4
independent practice4
reassuring staff4
nervous dog3
kitten care2
honest staff2
clean clinic2
quick appointments2
safe hands2

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	75	about page: yes · team page: yes · credentials: no · blog or news: yes · homepage: 662 words
Visibility	38	ranks for 8 of 12 keywords · average position 14.9 · local 3-pack: 3
Local presence	88	140 reviews · rated 4.9 · 8 new in 90 days
Technical	88	HTTPS: yes · page allows indexing: yes · robots.txt allows crawling: no · sitemap: yes · structured data: yes

Key findings

No pillar falls materially below the sector median this quarter.

How this compares to the leader

Bristol Vet Specialists leads the index with 80/100. The largest gaps are: AI search presence (0 vs 60); Visibility (38 vs 56); Technical (88 vs 100).

Top fixes (ranked by impact)

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.
Add about/team pages, and refresh stale content.

Firms ranked near this one

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

Firm	Rank	Score	Why it is here
Fernlea Veterinary Clinics	#3	67/100	2 places above you
Bristol Animal Rescue Centre Clinic	#7	62/100	2 places below you
Animal House Vets - Downend	#2	78/100	3 places above you
Viking Vets	#8	62/100	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	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 70 · accessibility 100 · best practices 81 · SEO 100 — biggest losses: LCP request discovery; Document request latency; Network dependency tree
Google profile detail	25 photos · claimed · has a description · hours listed · 1 of 140 reviews are one star
Backlinks	58 referring domains · 97 links · rank 114
Site structure	1 pages crawled · 16 internal links per page · reachable in: contact 1 click, team 1 click, services 1 click · 0% of links use a generic anchor · 2 sitemap pages not reachable by following links
Sitemap	2 URLs listed · declared in robots.txt · newest entry 1298 days old · 2 of 2 sampled URLs resolve

Where to get this fixed

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

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.
Visibility (38/100) — read topical authority on why ranking breadth across a sector beats chasing single terms. Background on analysing this pillar: visibility.

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.