Hands Down Sports Therapy — Exeter Physiotherapy Digital Visibility Score

Digital Visibility Score: 55 / 100 · Rank 20 of 53

Digital Visibility Score55/100Rank 20 of 53 · top 37%Problems found1Very little published content Furthest behind-25Content & trust: 30 against a sector median of 55

Measured 1 September 2026 via the PYC Exeter Physiotherapy 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	57	61	−4
Technical	100	88	+12
Local presence	83	77	+6
Visibility	4	4	level
AI search presence	20	0	+20
Content & trust	30	55	−25

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

Speed & CWV		-4
Technical		+12
Local presence		+6
Visibility		0
AI search presence		+20
Content & trust		-25

Problems found

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

Worth fixingVery little published contentThe homepage carries 395 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.

Where this firm ranks

Ranks for 1 of 12 keywords, average position 23, in the local 3-pack for 0 keywords.

Keyword	Position
physiotherapy Exeter	not in top 100
physio Exeter	not in top 100
best physiotherapist Exeter	not in top 100
sports injury clinic Exeter	#23
back pain treatment Exeter	not in top 100
chiropractor Exeter	not in top 100
osteopath Exeter	not in top 100
private physio Exeter	not in top 100
rehabilitation clinic Exeter	not in top 100
physiotherapy Heavitree	not in top 100
physiotherapy St Leonards	not in top 100
physio Heavitree	not in top 100

The gap to the leader

This firm against the sector median and the index leader, Quay Kinetics Physio & Sports Injury Clinic, on every pillar.

Speed & CWV		57
Technical		100
Local presence		83
Visibility		4
AI search presence		20
Content & trust		30

this firm sector median leader

Hands Down Sports Therapy trails Quay Kinetics Physio & Sports Injury Clinic by 200 points across 4 pillars, but 73% of that is AI search presence and Content & trust alone. It already matches or beats the leader on Speed & CWV, Technical.

AI search presence

Named in 1 of 5 AI answers. A domain citation is stronger evidence than a name mention.

✗	Who are the best physiotherapists in Exeter?
✓	Which physio clinic in Exeter would you recommend for a sports injury?	cited by domain
✗	Top rated physiotherapy in Exeter
✗	I have back pain and live in Exeter - who should I see?
✗	Best physiotherapy in Heavitree, Exeter

Local presence

Google Business Profile.

Rating	5 / 5
Reviews	47
Locations	1
Reviews in last 90 days	3
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.

physiotherapy8
goal setting5
back problems4
hip pain relief3
rehab plan3
rehab exercises3
ankle injury treatment2
exercise explanation2
recovery advice2
passionate staff2

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	30	about page: yes · team page: no · credentials: no · blog or news: no · homepage: 395 words
Visibility	4	ranks for 1 of 12 keywords · average position 23 · local 3-pack: 0
Local presence	83	47 reviews · rated 5 · 3 new in 90 days
Technical	100	HTTPS: yes · page allows indexing: yes · robots.txt allows crawling: yes · sitemap: yes · structured data: yes

Key findings

Content & trust: 30/100, below the sector median of 55.

How this compares to the leader

Quay Kinetics Physio & Sports Injury Clinic leads the index with 81/100. The largest gaps are: AI search presence (20 vs 100); Content & trust (30 vs 95); Visibility (4 vs 42).

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

Firms ranked near this one

The firms nearest Hands Down Sports Therapy in this ranking, beyond the two either side.

Firm	Rank	Score	Why it is here
Southwest Osteopathy \| Health & Performance	#18	56/100	2 places above you
Cliff Hill Training Ground (Exeter City FC Training Ground)	#22	54/100	2 places below you
Exeter Osteopaths	#17	56/100	3 places above you
Harbour Chiropractic & Physiotherapy, Topsham	#23	54/100	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 55 · accessibility 100 · best practices 96 · SEO 100 — biggest losses: Reduce unused CSS; Largest Contentful Paint; Reduce unused JavaScript
Google profile detail	31 photos · claimed · has a description · hours listed · 0 of 47 reviews are one star
Backlinks	40 referring domains · 42 links · rank 0
Site structure	12 pages crawled · 31.4 internal links per page · reachable in: contact 1 click, about 1 click · 0% of links use a generic anchor · 1 sitemap pages not reachable by following links
Sitemap	9 URLs listed · declared in robots.txt · newest entry 115 days old · 5 of 5 sampled URLs resolve

Where to get this fixed

Hands Down Sports Therapy’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 (20/100) — 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.