Watkins & Tasker Vets — Bristol Vet Digital Visibility Score

Digital Visibility Score: 54 / 100 · Rank 18 of 29

Digital Visibility Score54/100Rank 18 of 29 Problems found1The site has not changed in a long time Furthest behind-21Visibility: 0 against a sector median of 21

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	52	68.5	−16.5
Technical	100	88	+12
Local presence	78	81	−3
Visibility	0	21	−21
AI search presence	0	0	level
Content & trust	78	60	+18

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

Speed & CWV		-16.5
Technical		+12
Local presence		-3
Visibility		-21
AI search presence		0
Content & trust		+18

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 2.2 years ago.

Where this firm ranks

Ranks for 0 of 12 keywords, 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	not in top 100
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		52
Technical		100
Local presence		78
Visibility		0
AI search presence		0
Content & trust		78

this firm sector median leader

Watkins & Tasker Vets trails Bristol Vet Specialists by 166 points across 4 pillars, but 70% of that is AI search presence and Visibility alone. It already matches or beats the leader on Technical, Content & trust.

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	4.7 / 5
Reviews	158
Locations	1
Reviews in last 90 days	1
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.

caring staff12
kind staff9
empathy5
thoroughness3
detailed explanations3
emergency care3
rabbit2
nervous pet care2
relaxed atmosphere2
friendly 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	78	about page: yes · team page: yes · credentials: yes · blog or news: yes · homepage: 212 words · last changed: 808 days ago
Visibility	0	ranks for 0 of 12 keywords · local 3-pack: 0
Local presence	78	158 reviews · rated 4.7 · 1 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: 52/100, below the sector median of 68.5.
Visibility: 0/100, 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: AI search presence (0 vs 60); Visibility (0 vs 56); Speed & CWV (52 vs 80).

Top fixes (ranked by impact)

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

Firms ranked near this one

The firms nearest Watkins & Tasker Vets in this ranking, beyond the two either side.

Firm	Rank	Score	Why it is here
Community Vets	#16	55/100	2 places above you
Chicken Clinic - Pet poultry vet	#20	53/100	2 places below you
Bristol PDSA Pet Hospital	#15	56/100	3 places above you
Highcroft Veterinary Group	#21	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	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 47 · accessibility 85 · best practices 96 · SEO 100 — biggest losses: Network dependency tree; Use efficient cache lifetimes; Buttons do not have an accessible name
Google profile detail	27 photos · claimed · no description · hours listed · 5 of 158 reviews are one star
Backlinks	61 referring domains · 144 links · rank 105
Site structure	Not crawled — homepage HTTP 403

Where to get this fixed

Watkins & Tasker Vets’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.
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.